[TUTORIAL] Proxmox VE Cloud-init deploy tool

[ananiasfilho]

Hello All, a customer asked us to make Cloud init deployment more fast and less confused.
So, we from KMEE created a proxmox cloud-init tool to help deploy. Its only shellscript solution.
The repository is: https://github.com/kmee/proxmox-cloud-init-tools
Feel free to test and report issues on Github if possible.

Proxmox cloud-init tools​

ShellScript tools to deploy VM cloud-init in Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE)

Supported PVE Versions​

• PVE 6 Not tested
• PVE 6.1 [OK] - Tested
• PVE 6.2 [OK] - Tested
• PVE 6.3 [OK] - Tested

Features​

1. Auto cloud images download

• Debian 9 - Stretch
• Debian 10 - Buster
• Ubuntu Server 18.04 LTS - Bionic
• Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS - Focal

1. Set VM Hostname
2. Set VM Description
3. Memory (Available to select 2GB,4GB,8GB and 16GB)
4. CPU Cores
5. CPU Sockets
6. Storage destination (Local, NFS, LVM/LVM-Thin, etc)
7. Define user, by default root user is defined. If you change to another, this user can be used with sudo powers without password;
8. Insert SSH authorized keys to user defined on step 8 Very important;
9. Select bridge network;
10. Select Static/IP or DHCP usage;
11. Define uniq VMID;
12. Can start or not, VM after deployment.

Usage​

1. Login on your Proxmox VE server over SSH or Console Shell
2. Clone proxmox-cloud-init project

git clone https://github.com/kmee/proxmox-cloud-init-tools.git

cd proxmox-cloud-init-tools

1. Create authorized keys files

mkdir pub_keys

touch pub_keys/id_rsa.pub

copy your public ssh keys to pub/keys/id_rsa.pub file

1. Adjust permission, then run deploy.sh

chmod +x deploy.sh

./deploy.sh

1. Follow instructions on screen.

Important​

Before deploy VM using things script, upload your public ssh key to ./pub_keys/id_rsa.pub file. if you do not upload keys do pub_keys/id_rsa.pub, you will not access VM.

 

[Scot]

You may also check out https://github.com/francismunch/vmbuilder this one, it’s similar to yours but has a few more options. Both get the job done for the most part, but thought I would share in case you want to add more options to yours.

 

[ph0x]

What are the benefits of such scripts over Debian's FAI (fully automated installation) project? No bashing, I'm really interested. ;-)

 

[ananiasfilho]

are totaly diferents purposes. Cloud images get a custom lilttle image to deploy clean server.
Many linuxs distros have a cloud image repository to run directly on hypervisors.
This FAI is a tool to deploy environment with multiple features - i have no idea about FAI but seems a good tool to deploy environments too! =) Good to know!