Salt states are a set of:

• Packages
• Files
• Commands
• Configurations

That will be applied to any machine (minion) so that machine can:

• perform some set of actions
• take some pre-configured role

• Lamp state will install (at a glance):
  • http
  • mariadb
  • php
• Open firewall ports

• All states MUST be on salt-master folder:

/srv/salt/base

• states files has *.sls extension.
• The states has YAML standard syntax.
• Verify (basic) states syntax (if the state has jinja2 statements will fail):

python -c "from yaml import load, Loader; load(open('STATEFILE.sls'),Loader=Loader)"