By the sounds of it, you could do this currently. 1) Create a root image for your use that installs Salt in your Arch image. See here: https://github.com/pauld

By the sounds of it, you could do this currently. 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/base/script 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.