Best terraform provider ?

Hello,
Well, I was going to recommend Telmate's provider for proxmox since it's the one I've been using for months now, but the one you found seems much more advanced !
anyways, here it is in case you want to check it out : https://registry.terraform.io/providers/Telmate/proxmox/latest/docs
I haven't read the bgp provider completely, but the telmate's one is more focused around VMs and LX Containers, so it will probbly be better suited for these tasks. The hypervisor part tho seems really interesting.

I would advise to use this one for host provisioning, and maybe try telmate's one for VM and container stuff.

Best,
 
I looked more at the age and maintenance rather than the functionality. It would be nice to bring them both together.
 
SimonMcNair said:
From what I can see the bgp one appears more superior in all ways, but I haven't used it
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It is still missing a few features, like specifying HA group to VMs, and has some pretty annoying bugs (like this one), but I think it should be the one to recommend indeed, so that more people can potentially contribute to it.
 
Thanks for the feedback! The bug mentioned above has been fixed in the most recent version.
Full disclosure -- I'm not the original author of the code, just picked up this abandoned project a year or so ago, put some tweaks and fixes to make it work in my homelab, and here you go.

And yes, this is a hobby project, and any new contributors are very welcome! :)
 
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bpg said:
Thanks for the feedback! The bug mentioned above has been fixed in the most recent version.
Full disclosure -- I'm not the original author of the code, just picked up this abandoned project a year or so ago, put some tweaks and fixes to make it work in my homelab, and here you go.

And yes, this is a hobby project, and any new contributors are very welcome! :)
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Hi,
I'm looking to use terraform too to replace our custom scripts at work, but I was really not impressed by telmate provider (a lot of bugs and missing feature).

I'll try your provider and make a feedback.

Not sure I can contribute, because I never have coding in golang berfore.
 
Hi everyone,

I'm also looking to use terraform on proxmox wondering which provider is best nowaday ?
BTW a question that maybe you could help me :
I like to keep my proxmox as clean as possible so I was thinking of installing terraform inside an lxc is that possible or a good/bad idea ? (same question for ansible :-) )
 
I was using both mentioned providers: bpg and telmate. The telmate proxmox provider is around since a long time, but very limited in functionality. It only allows managing vm, lxc, pool and cloud-init disks.

On the other hand, the bpg proxmox provider allows you to manage every aspect of a proxmox environment. This includes all telmate can do plus things like managing full clusters, hosts, security groups, acls, network config, sdn, users and much more.

In addition to this, the bpg provider is perfectly maintained, the team acts fast on bug reports and always implements new features. There were over 30 new bpg releases over the last year! The plus on features does not come at a price: creating simple things (like lxc and vms) in bpg is as easy as in telmate. But the more complex configurations are simply only possible in bpg.

Below the line, I strongly recommend the bpg proxmox provider for both, homelabers and people wanting to manage large proxmox environments with Terraform or OpenTofu.
 
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