Earlier today I was looking for a Saltstack mode for emacs. Couldn't find one, so I posted the question on Stack overflow. Somebody had a good suggestion about using yaml-mode because a Sublime Text implementation appeared to be taking this approach.Another person thought that Saltstack's use of jinja templates would make an emacs mode easy enough to configure. These were both helpful ideas so I wanted to implement parts of each.
After looking around, I found that someone had configured an emacs mode for a similar situation. They needed to combine HTML and Python to use Mako templates for a project not involving Saltstack. Since Edx uses Mako t