[feature request]: expand the storage/upload API to support `snippets`

[coming.link]

This is a feature/improvement request.
I am working on a tool that sets up a few templates onto a cluster, each template is meant for automated testing and relies on cloud-init to do all of the early bootstrapping.

Right now, I can issue a `GET` request to the API to see any snippets/images ... etc that I have stored:

GET /api2/json/nodes/{node}/storage/{storage}/content/

And I get back an array of objects like so:

[
  <...>
  {'volid': 'local:import/ubuntu-26.04-server-cloudimg-amd64v3.qcow2', 'format': 'qcow2', ... 'content': 'import'},
  {'volid': 'local:snippets/ubuntu-resolute-cloudinit.yaml', ... 'format': 'snippet', 'content': 'snippets'},
  <...>
]

The current API allows me to upload the IMG/qcow2 file for import with an API call like this:

POST /api2/json/nodes/{node}/storage/{storage}/upload

But there is a limit to what the **required** `content` parameter will take :

`iso | vztmpl | import`

Which means that there is no way for me to use the API to upload the cloud-init yaml snippet.

Which brings me to the ask:

- Update the API so `POST /api2/json/nodes/{node}/storage/{storage}/upload?content=snippet` works and allows me to programmatically upload cloud-init snippets to the cluster

 

[acicek]

Hi,

I'm using the terraform bgp/proxmox provider to deploy my VMs using cloud-init.yaml to bootstrap the VM. The Provider creates a individual cloud-init.yaml file for each VM and stores it on a desired storage on Proxmox VE. To use this feature i have to configure additional ssh access for terraform to be able to upload the cloud-init.yaml on a desired storage. It would be really helpful if the managements of snippet files via API would be possible.

https://registry.terraform.io/providers/bpg/proxmox/latest/docs#when-is-ssh-required

Thank you!

Regards
Azad

 

[coming.link]

To use this feature i have to configure additional ssh access for terraform to be able to upload the cloud-init.yaml on a desired storage. It would be really helpful if the managements of snippet files via API would be possible.

Yep, I have a little script to `scp` the file over to every node in the cluster but the IT overlords do not like us having ssh/root access so that is going to stop working for me soon .

 

[Johannes S]

Did you already file this request on bigzilla.proxmox.com? This is the community forum. Although some developers participate here the bugzilla is more likely to get noticed. I'm not sure but there might even be a similiar request where one could chime in for such a feature

 

[coming.link]

Did you already file this request on bigzilla.proxmox.com? This is the community forum. Although some developers participate here the bugzilla is more likely to get noticed. I'm not sure but there might even be a similiar request where one could chime in for such a feature

The docs said either here or the mailing lists... but I did create a bug: https://bugzilla.proxmox.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7838