Ansible Playbook: Bulk Create VM on Proxmox

How to use?

1. Copy example inventories to your favor name

   cp -r inventories/example inventories/<inventory-name>

2. Change the inventory config in ansible.cfg

   [defaults]
   inventory=inventories/<inventory-name>

3. Update inventories/<inventory-name>/all.var

   1. Change proxmox identity

      • proxmox_user: the user who create the API key. e.g. root@pam
      • proxmox_token: the token name. (!IMPORTANT: should not include the proxmox_user)
      • proxmox_token_secret: the token secret
      • proxmox_host: the proxmox api endpoint

   2. Update VM List

      • vmid: the VM ID
      • name: name of the VM
      • proxmox_node: the proxmox node where the VM will be created
      • clone_vmid: the template VM ID
      • storage: the storage unique name where the VM will be stored
      • cpus: the number of CPU cores
      • memory: the memory size of the VM
      • disk_size: the disk size of the VM
      • sshkeys: the ssh public key to be injected to the VM (multiple keys should be separated by newline)
      • net: the network configuration of the VM
        • ip: the IP address of the VM including CIDR (e.g. 10.216.100.60/24)
        • gw: the gateway of the VM (e.g. 10.216.0.1)