automation

I am attempting to write an Ansible playbook that sets up my Proxmox cluster. One issue I'm running into is pveceph install doesn't have a non-interactive option. I've tried setting DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive on the task like this: - name: Install Ceph environment: DEBIAN_FRONTEND...

I have been working Proxmox for about a year and a half now and feel pretty comfortable with the platform. I can create VMs/containers, manage storage (using Ceph), handle networking, create cloud-init templates, etc. Now I want to take the next step and automate my infrastructure. I have some...

Hello. I am trying to get a custom cloud-init config working to install some default software on my VMs. But I hit an dead end with a parsing error when starting the VM. TASK ERROR: unable to parse directory volume name '/var/lib/vz/snippets/ubuntu-homelab-cloud-init.yml' I first tought It...

Looking at templating out our deployments, and found this thread from ten years ago which uses ansible shell combined with pvesh, which would work just fine but I'm hoping there's some ansible.community.something module that's actually intended for automation of proxmox hosts themselves. Am...

Hello everyone, I'm currently working on automating the installation of Proxmox on bare-metal servers using PXE boot. The solution also includes post-installation configuration and automatic cluster joining using Ansible. If anyone has worked on a similar setup before and is willing to share...

I am trying to setup an os_patching role to log into proxmox and take snapshots. I have installed the ansible collection after doing some research. I am running this on RHEL 9. Here is the output of the ansible collections: ~]$ ansible-galaxy collection list #...

I am wanting to use the new AutoInstaller tool to create an image to autodeploy a proxmox instances in an offline environment. The tool has the ability to imbed the setup script into the iso and i was wondering if it is possible to embed a few other iso/vmbackups into the iso so that they...

Hello! I want to share a small home project I’ve been working on for the past few months. I was looking for solutions for a certain implementation for packer and ansible on the forum, but I couldn’t find it here or in any GitHub repos. I used Packer for template creation because it gives a...

It would be very useful for sysadmins and devops teams, if there was an embedded task scheduler/queue worker for native actions like QEMU/LXC power actions, migrations and deletions with system and user defined intervals or just once-off actions. This feature should be available through API and...

"ZFS ate half of my RAM." - :eek: That's pretty much how it started. Diving deeper to this subject it appeared that it's very common problem. Here are few topics on this forum that I read to understand what's going with ram: "Disable ZFS ARC or limiting it" "zfs_arc_max does not seem to work"...

Hi, I hope this fits the forum subject focus. Recently I wrote this simple script to update all my linux containers/VMs (I am sure some one could add windows guests and maybe RPM based, slack, etc support) using MPSSH (an old but good parallel ssh utility). I am also sure it can be extended to...

Currently, there doesn't appear to be a single http get to obtain all VMs in the cluster. Right now, I have to query the cluster to obtain the nodes, then query each node for what VMs they have, then on top of that, query each node again for each individual VM config. As you can imagine, when...

Hey guys, i am an ansible enthusisast and would like to start a discussion on your usecase and my usecase regarding ansible. I am not an ansible expert but I love utilizing ansible as much as possible. Maybe I can get some ideas and you can get some ideas from me. So here it is: I have a vm...

Howdy everyone! I have a cluster where we want to use the VXLAN features of the SDN plugin (I know it is an experimental feature and we accept the associated risks). 1. Is there an API endpoint or other automation that others are using for this feature? 2. Are there any issues using SDN with HA?

Hi! quick question regarding backup protection inside the PBS: Is there a way to automatically schedule that a specific amount of backups will be marked with the protection flag automatically (for example "set the 2 most recent backups as protected" and automatically set/remove the flag when new...

Hi everyone. I created an Ubuntu VM with some services inside running. I like what I did, and I would love to duplicate that VM for some friends to use with their settings. Is there any way to: Create a VM Install Ubuntu (with a custom IP address) Install and update the required packages...

Hey PVE Staff and Users, Are there future (or current) plans to deploy PVE using Ansible? There are official scripts for Xen, VMWare, and RedHat on HPE Systems for example. https://github.com/ansible-provisioning/ansible-provisioning/blob/master/README.md Thanks, Tmanok

So I have a bit of a dilemma where my company needs to update a very large number of VMs on a regular basis as these connect to customer networks. Right now this is done by manually powering up, ssh and powering down the machines but that's pretty cumbersome as that's my responsibility and eats...

I am using Ansible to provision and deploy PVE to my bare-metal servers in my home lab. This works great, although I noticed that the Server ID changes with each new OS installation, even when the hardware is exactly the same. Is there a way to keep the server ID the same for each machine...

So loving PBS, however I wanted to automate some things. One of those things is auto assign media pool depending on the prefix of a tape. I have an IBM 9 tape changer and I wanted an easy way to add new tapes and run a command to auto assign them to media pools depending on the label prefix so...