Does Salt allow you to run from an already-built (but minimal) Arch installation? The base Darch images (godarch/arch) is bootstrapped manually.
Would I have to create a godarch/arch-salt image that is bootstrapped from salt files, so that you could further salt the image?
How would salt handle the inheritance that Docker provides?
All you have to do is install Salt, and then you can run salt-call to apply states.
Yes, Salt states can depend on other states, and you could choose to apply only selected states.
1) Create a root image for your use that installs Salt in your Arch image. See here: https://github.com/pauldotknopf/darch-recipes/blob/master/ba...
2) For the rest of your recipes/layers, create a script/bash file like you would normally, but just pass execution to Salt.
I'll look into Salt more. Maybe there is a way to extend Darch to support different "executors" to support things like bash/Salt/Puppet/etc.