[SOLVED] automate deployment of VMs from cloud images

[lethargos]

Hello,

Does anyone know a way of reasonably automating the deployment of an ubuntu vm starting from the cloud-image?

I'm mostly referring to this part:
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-Init_Support

# download the image
wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/bionic/current/bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

# create a new VM
qm create 9000 --memory 2048 --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0

# import the downloaded disk to local-lvm storage
qm importdisk 9000 bionic-server-cloudimg-amd64.img local-lvm

# finally attach the new disk to the VM as scsi drive
qm set 9000 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 local-lvm:vm-9000-disk-1

Does the proxmox api support this? Would I be able to do it with packer, for example? All the tutorial I've come either type in the commands manually or use packer with a standard iso, which takes quite a lot of time.

 

[bbgeek17]

Yes, you can do most of it via API. The only thing that is not available via API, _yet_, is "importdisk".

I've placed a script similar to what you are looking for in this thread https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/concurrent-cloning-of-vm.97549/#post-422356

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Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

 

[lethargos]

Yes, you can do most of it via API. The only thing that is not available via API, _yet_, is "importdisk".

I've placed a script similar to what you are looking for in this thread https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/concurrent-cloning-of-vm.97549/#post-422356

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Ultra low latency all-NVME shared storage for Proxmox - https://www.blockbridge.com/proxmox

Yes, thank you

That actually boils down to: no, you cannot do it using the API. importdisk is obviously essential to it, so you have to use hacks
I think I prefer executing the bash script over ssh with packer and see how it goes.
That's useful stuff though - what you did there