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Ansible Playbook for Proxmox VM Management

This Ansible playbook automates the creation, deletion, and configuration of virtual machines (VMs) on a Proxmox server.

Prerequisites

• Ansible installed on the local machine
• Ansible community.general.proxmox_kvm module
• Access to a Proxmox server with API access enabled
• Python proxmoxer library installed (pip install proxmoxer)

Setup

1. Clone this repository:

   git clone https://github.com/TheTaqiTahmid/proxmox_ansible_automation
   

2. Update the inventory file with your Proxmox server details:

   all:
     hosts:
       proxmox:
         ansible_host: your_proxmox_ip
         ansible_user: your_proxmox_user
         ansible_password: your_proxmox_password
   

   In the current example implementation in inventories/hosts.yaml, there are multiple groups depending on the types of hosts.

3. Add group-related variables to the group file under the group_vars directory and individual host-related variables to the files under the host_vars directory. Ansible will automatically pick up these variables.

4. Add the following secrets to the ansible-vault:

   • proxmox_api_token_id
   • proxmox_api_token
   • ansible_proxmox_user
   • ansible_vm_user
   • proxmox_user
   • ansible_ssh_private_key_file
   • ciuser
   • cipassword

One can create the secret file using the following command:

ansible-vault create secrets/vault.yml

To encrypt and decrypt the file, use the following commands:

ansible-vault encrypt secrets/vault.yml
ansible-vault decrypt secrets/vault.yml

The password for vault file can be stored in a file or can be provided during the encryption/decryption process. The password file location can be specified in the ansible.cfg file.

Playbooks

Create VM

To create the VMs, run the following command:

ansible-playbook playbooks/create-vms.yaml

The playbook can be run against specific Proxmox instance using:

ansible-playbook playbooks/create-vms.yaml --limit proxmox1

Delete VM

To delete existing VMs, run the following command:

ansible-playbook playbooks/destroy-vms.yaml

Similarly the destory playbook can be run against specific Proxmox instance using:

ansible-playbook playbooks/destroy-vms.yaml --limit proxmox1

Configure VM

To configure an existing VM, run the following command:

ansible-playbook playbooks/configure-vms.yaml

The configuration can be limited to individual VMs using limits:

ansible-playbook playbooks/configure-vms.yaml --limit vm6

Variables

The playbooks use the following variables, which can be customized in the group_vars/proxmox.yml file:

• vm_id: The ID of the VM
• vm_name: The name of the VM
• vm_memory: The amount of memory for the VM
• vm_cores: The number of CPU cores for the VM
• vm_disk_size: The size of the VM disk

Author

• Taqi Tahmid (mdtaqitahmid@gmail.com)