We've covered a lot of ground in this chapter. We've installed the Salt minion and Salt master on our machines and configured them to talk to each other, including accepting the minion's key on the master. We've also run our first Salt commands, both from the master and from the minion without involving the master.

However, we've only just begun! In the next chapter, we're going to go much more in-depth into the topic of remote execution and show how powerful this tool is.