# Startup States

Sometimes it may be desired that the salt minion execute a state run when it is started. This alleviates the need for the master to initiate a state run on a new minion and can make provisioning much easier.

As of Salt 0.10.3 the minion config reads options that allow for states to be executed at startup. The options are startup_states, sls_list, and top_file.

The startup_states option can be passed one of a number of arguments to define how to execute states. The available options are:

highstate

  Execute `state.apply`

sls

  Read in the `sls_list` option and execute the named sls files

top

  Read in the `top_file` option and execute states based on that top file on the Salt Master

## Examples:

Execute `state.apply` to run the highstate when starting the minion:

    startup_states: highstate

Execute the sls files edit.vim and hyper:

    startup_states: sls

    sls_list:
      - edit.vim
      - hyper