API issue w/ 'proxmox' ansible module.

[locusofself]

Hello, big proxmox fan and ansible user here. I am trying to create new LXC containers in proxmox using ansible. I believe this is same issue as: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/25113

I'd like to help fix it and maybe do a pull request for the ansible module.

I can't say with 100% certainty, but I think its perhaps calling the API wrong. Here is what I get in my pve-proxy/access.log (note 500 error in last line)


10.128.30.241 - - [29/Aug/2017:20:47:13 -0700] "POST /api2/json/access/ticket HTTP/1.1" 200 643
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/version HTTP/1.1" 200 80
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/cluster/nextid HTTP/1.1" 200 14
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/cluster/resources?type=vm HTTP/1.1" 200 347
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/cluster/resources?type=vm HTTP/1.1" 200 334
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/nodes HTTP/1.1" 200 193
10.128.30.241 - root@pam [29/Aug/2017:20:47:14 -0700] "GET /api2/json/nodes/z3/storage/debian-8.0-standard_8.7-1_amd64.tar.gz/content HTTP/1.1" 500 13



This debian tarball LXC template is located on my /var/lib/vz/template/cache/ directory, /var/lib/vz is mounted as 'local' in proxmox. At first I thought maybe the API is not finding it in that path, so I tried moving other places but then I got another error indicating the template doesnt exist, so I don't think that is the problem.



Any help appreciated thanks!

 

[locusofself]

I found the issue or a workaround. I was trying to have the LXC target storgage be 'local' (default) but I did not have Container type allowed. So I just changed it to my other storage local-lvm.

Ansible, and the pveproxy/access.log only showed 500 error, but querying the API with curl gave me the actual error message.

{"errors":{"storage":"storage 'local' does not support container directories"},"data":null}


So I have a playbook which works now, still need to add more stuff like for networking etc..

---
- hosts: lxctest
gather_facts: no
become: no
tasks:
- name: create container
proxmox:
node: z3
api_user: root@pam
api_password: '******!'
api_host: proxmox.*****.com
password: 123456
hostname: lxc.****.com
ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/debian-8.0-standard_8.7-1_amd64.tar.gz'
pubkey: '****'
onboot: yes
storage: local-lvm
delegate_to: localhost

 

[manu]

we are not involved in the development of the ansible proxmox module, did you report the issue in their bug tracker ?

 

[locusofself]

we are not involved in the development of the ansible proxmox module, did you report the issue in their bug tracker ?

Indeed I piled on to an existing issue about the same error. Thanks !

 

[manu]

I had a look at this and submitted a pull request for the proxmoxer python module (which the ansible proxmox module uses in the backend) so that the root cause of the error is displayed on API calls errrors.

Please rebuild the proxmoxer module using https://github.com/EmmanuelKasper/proxmoxer/tree/api_errors_reason
and report to the pull request at https://github.com/swayf/proxmoxer/pull/36 if the fix works for you.

 

[manu]

the pull request was applied, so probably the next realease of proxmoxer will have this fixed