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README.md

Proxmox VM setup

Overview

This directory contains tooling for:

  • creating a Proxmox VM template to use as a source for future VMs (Ansible)
  • provisioning VMs based on the created template (Terraform)

Required software:

  • Ansible: pip3 install ansible
  • Terraform: brew install terraform

Contents:

  • create-vm-template.yaml - contains an Ansible playbook to run tasks for downloading a cloud-init image and creating a VM template in PVE. The playbook should be run as root on the PVE host itself.
  • terraform/main.tf contains the definition of the VMs and their quantity/resources etc.

Creating cloud-init template

To create new cloud-init VM template:

  • update ansible/inventory.yaml and replace proxmox.local with the address of the PVE host
  • modify vars section in ansible/create-vm-template.yaml as needed
    • note: cloud_image_path must have a .qcow2 extension due to PVE compatibility issue
  • from directory root, run: 
    ansible-playbook -i ansible/inventory.yaml ansible/create-vm-template.yaml -K

Provisioning VMs

To provision VMs:

  • update terraform/variables.tf as needed; replace proxmox.local with the address of the PVE host
  • update/modify terraform/main.tf to tweak the configuration of VMs
  • from terraform directory, run 
    terraform init
terraform plan -var="pm_user=root@pam" -var="pm_password=<PVE root password>" -out plan

terraform apply "plan"

References: