These are notes for using the "Salt in 60 seconds" tutorial with DigitalOcean - http://www.saltstat.es/posts/quickstart.html
After creating a droplet via their web interface, login with you IP address and the password that is emailed to you.
export IP=your-ip
ssh root@$IP
Install saltstack
curl -L http://bootstrap.saltstack.org | sudo sh -s -- -M stable