Added in version 2015.8.3.

# Proxy Minion Beacon

The salt proxy beacon is meant to facilitate configuring multiple proxies on one or many minions. This should simplify configuring and managing multiple `salt-proxy` processes.

1. On your salt-master, ensure that pillar is configured properly. Select an ID for your proxy (in this example we will name the proxy 'p8000'). In your pillar topfile, place an entry for your proxy:

    base:
      'p8000':
        - p8000

This says that Salt's pillar should load some values for the proxy `p8000` from the file `/srv/pillar/p8000.sls` (if you have not changed your default pillar_roots)

2. In the pillar root for your base environment, create the `p8000.sls` file with the following contents:

    proxy:
      # set proxytype for your proxymodule
      proxytype: ssh_sample
      host: saltyVM
      username: salt
      password: badpass

This should complete the proxy setup for `p8000`

3. Configure the `salt_proxy` beacon

    beacons:
      salt_proxy:
        - proxies:
            p8000: {}
            p8001: {}

Once this beacon is configured it will automatically start the `salt-proxy` process. If the `salt-proxy` process is terminated the beacon will re-start it.

4. Accept your proxy's key on your salt-master

    salt-key -y -a p8000
    The following keys are going to be accepted:
    Unaccepted Keys:
    p8000
    Key for minion p8000 accepted.

5. Now you should be able to run commands on your proxy.

    salt p8000 pkg.list_pkgs