In one of my previous blog articles I wrote about how to deploy a proxmox virtual machine with Terraform but the truth is there are a couple of methods to achieve the same outcome of deploying a Linux virtual machine to your Promox host. As some of you already know I am an automation junkie and Ansible is also one of my favorite software tools to build automation. In today's article, we're building out an Ansible playbook that deploys a Linux virtual machine to our Proxmox virtual host.
Prerequisite Initial Steps
Our initial first steps will be to ensure that we have a Linux VM template image that we want to deploy. In my case I have an Ubuntu Linux Template that I built with Packer like in the example below if you want to do the same. Otherwise you can go ahead to and download one of the images on Ubuntu's official site.
Chad Crouch
Ansible Playbook To Create Virtual Machine On Proxmox
Adjust the following script according to your Proxmox environment and execute it to create your VM on your Proxmox Host with Ansible:
---
- name: Create VM Proxmox
hosts: proxmox
vars_files:
- "./vars/proxmox_vars.yml"
tasks:
- name: Create proxmox virtual machine
community.general.proxmox:
api_user : root@pam
api_password : prox_password #proxmox password
api_host : 192.168.1.52 #proxmox host ip addr
clone : 100
clone_type : full
cpus : 1
cores : 4
memory : 4096
onboot : true
netif : '{"net0":"name=eth0,gw=192.168.1.1,ip=192.168.1.58/24,bridge=vmbr0"}'
hostname : 'exampleVM'
storage : local-lvm
node : 'vh1' #proxmox hostname
Once the playbook completes successfully you can start utilizing your newly created virtual machine. If you are looking to set extra configs visit the Ansible Proxmox website here:
Conclusion
In conclusion, Ansible is one of the best opensource automation and configuration management tools and can integrate with many other platforms and tools and by following this tutorial you can automate the creation of Proxmox Virtual Machines with one Ansible Playbook . If you enjoyed this article consider signing up for our newsletter and don't forget to share it with people that would find it useful. Leave a comment below with a tutorial you would like us to cover.