The function "state.apply" is running as PID Restart salt-minion with command: service salt-minion restart No matching sls found for 'init' in env 'base' Add top.sls file in the directory where your main sls file is present. Create the file as follows: [code language="bash"] base: 'web*': - apache [/code] If the sls is present in a subdirectory elasticsearch/init.sls then write the top.sls as: [code language="bash"] base: '*': - elasticsearch.init [/code] How to execute saltstack-formulas create file /srv/pillar/top.sls with content: base : ' * ' : - salt create file /srv/pillar/salt.sls with content: salt : master : worker_threads : 2 fileserver_backend : - roots - git gitfs_remotes : - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/epel-formula.git - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/git-formula.git - git://github.com/saltstack-formulas/nano-formula.git -...