Feature Proposal : Transform Ansible Role into a Ansible Collection

[thystips]

It would be useful to transform the current Ansible role into a collection that allows users to use specific libraries or functions without needing to run the entire Proxmox role.

For example:

• Managing storage with a custom role dedicated to storage arrays.
• Handling user management independently.
• Managing Metric Server with a role dedicated for monitoring (mentioned in Feature Request: Add Support for Managing Proxmox Metric Servers #259)
• Resolv Optimize sshd compatibility with other roles #186
• Make Add pve_exporter deployment steps for Prometheus monitoring #36 easier to hack

This transformation would allow for splitting Proxmox installation, storage management, SSH configuration, etc., into separate roles within the collection, providing more flexibility and modularity.

Thanks for considering this!

[lae]

This is already something I've thought about, but it is outside of scope. A collection is not backwards compatible as far as I understand and would have to be a separate project, which is not one that I would really have the motivation for to maintain or create at this time.