A way to update all those containers in bulk using saved-configs?

[drdude]

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 include other maintenance commands for bulk maintenance of such containers/VMs. I know Ansible exists and maybe that is a preferable way to manage machines in bulk, but for homelabs of a single/few proxmox machines learning Ansible seems to be a daunting task, and since Proxmox has scheduling and very mature set of features on which this can be improved and integrated.

The question I have, maybe a feature/improvement to Proxmox web-UI and/or CLI utils (or even APIs)... can we add such ability to proxmox said API/interfaces?

I have python programming experience, and am learning Rust. I am willing to contribute such feature if some one can guide me and/or it is a desired feature.

Does this makes sense as a side project? does anyone care to have it? is it even relevant or is there a simple tool to do this task and I just should drop this thought and use it?

Thank you so much for the help and guidance.

 

[NullBy7e]

I think most people just use ansible to manage tasks for VMs or containers such as bulk updates. I am not a fan of that personally because you need to install python on each target, which seems a bit too much to me.

 

[fabian]

what exactly should that feature be?

 

[drdude]

I think most people just use ansible to manage tasks for VMs or containers such as bulk updates. I am not a fan of that personally because you need to install python on each target, which seems a bit too much to me.

actually, some one pointed this on a reddit post and I think it solves this: https://helper-scripts.com/scripts

 

[drdude]

what exactly should that feature be?

I was thinking an automated command outlet on the web UI to list all commands and certain schedules for each... however, some on on reddit pointed this website for automation, and it seems to cover the feature: https://helper-scripts.com/scripts... although not in a proxmoxy way. I am fine with that though.