community.general.proxmox – management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster

• Synopsis
• Requirements
• Parameters
• Examples

Synopsis

• allows you to create/delete/stop instances in Proxmox VE cluster
• Starting in Ansible 2.1, it automatically detects containerization type (lxc for PVE 4, openvz for older)
• From community.general 4.0.0 on, there will be no default values, see proxmox_default_behavior.

Requirements

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

• proxmoxer
• requests

Parameters

Examples

- name: Create new container with minimal options
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'

- name: Create new container with hookscript and description
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    hookscript: 'local:snippets/vm_hook.sh'
    description: created with ansible

- name: Create new container automatically selecting the next available vmid.
  community.general.proxmox:
    node: 'uk-mc02'
    api_user: 'root@pam'
    api_password: '1q2w3e'
    api_host: 'node1'
    password: '123456'
    hostname: 'example.org'
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'

- name: Create new container with minimal options with force(it will rewrite existing container)
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    force: yes

- name: Create new container with minimal options use environment PROXMOX_PASSWORD variable(you should export it before)
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with dhcp
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    netif: '{"net0":"name=eth0,ip=dhcp,ip6=dhcp,bridge=vmbr0"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with static ip
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: 'local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    netif: '{"net0":"name=eth0,gw=192.168.0.1,ip=192.168.0.2/24,bridge=vmbr0"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining a mount with 8GB
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    mounts: '{"mp0":"local:8,mp=/mnt/test/"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining a cpu core limit
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    cores: 2

- name: Create a new container with nesting enabled and allows the use of CIFS/NFS inside the container.
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    password: 123456
    hostname: example.org
    ostemplate: local:vztmpl/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz'
    features:
     - nesting=1
     - mount=cifs,nfs


- name: Start container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: started

- name: >
    Start container with mount. You should enter a 90-second timeout because servers
    with additional disks take longer to boot
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: started
    timeout: 90

- name: Stop container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: stopped

- name: Stop container with force
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    force: yes
    state: stopped

- name: Restart container(stopped or mounted container you can't restart)
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: restarted

- name: Remove container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: absent

Authors

• Sergei Antipov (@UnderGreen)