Proxmox provides a really useful graphical user interface for Proxmox VE that makes managing a cluster and virtual machines relatively straightforward

But manually creating virtual machines takes time and usually you're just repeating the same process over and over again

No doubt those virtual machines are important so you'll buy more storage so you can make backup copies of them locally, and then pay some more money so that you can have offline copies as well

But if you consider the time it would take to recover your backup copies from an offline storage and then how long it would take to restore your virtual machines, automation with a tool like Ansible makes more sense

Because if you can create and manage your virtual machines from code, then aside from any data that's generated, that code is all you need a backup of to be able to rebuild your virtual machines

So in this video, we show you how to automate VM creation on Proxmox VE using Ansible

Useful links:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late...
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/late...
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Cloud-In...

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Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:02 Assumptions
01:44 Create Playbook
05:20 Create Image Files
09:20 Create Computer Files
13:58 Create Variables
18:16 Create Vaults
19:32 Assemble Files Role
21:45 Download Cloud-Init Images Role
23:48 Create Snippets Folder
24:56 Create Cloud-Init Files Role
31:11 Create VMs Role
41:21 Post Cleanup
47:01 Testing
51:22 Summary

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