Hi, got Proxmox installed. Now want to install some VMs but would like to use a simple setup rather than painfully going trough an install. I’ve read I could accomplish this via ansible. Are there ready playbooks you can hack? Presumably I would need to have Proxmox understand playbooks?
Oversimplifying it, Ansible playbooks are nothing more than some commands that should be run on a remote machine via ssh. Ansible knows or has modules for a variety of different package managers (apt, yum, etc) and automagically knows how to handle services or various config files.
It can get complex, but I think just the startup phase, until you have an inventory of remote machines, the ssh keys are in place, etc. I second the Jeff Geerling recommendation, his stuff is solid, both ready to use playbooks, and tutorials.
I would suggest to also look into
cloudinit. Makes setting up VMs on proxmox easier, faster, more consistent, with users, networking, ssh keys, etc ready to use (by you or by Ansible).@beerclue Exactly. You can take wiki bash instructions on how a system was set up and translate it to ansible, or back again. The ansible modules are python, but theoretically you could make a bash implementation that just calls dnf/systemctl/etc. directly, like a sys admin would have done.
Or, if you’re using only one or few distributions you can preseed the image and have the installer do the stuff for you.