Proxmox LXC Module v1

Summary

Introduce a way to bake proxmox-lxc-template on the fly with Ansible -

Implementation

• Proxmox LXC Module - #209
• Inventory and Sample Playbooks - #210

Details

• Add support for ubuntu-privileged-2204-standard-lxc-template
• Add support for ubuntu-unprivileged-2204-standard-lxc-template
• Add support for ubuntu-privileged-2204-docker-lxc-template
• Add sample inventory list
• Add sample group_vars that are associated with the default inventory list
• Add relevant playbooks to automate the proxmox-lxc-template baking process

Prerequisites

Update group_vars

Inventory Structure

./inventory/
├── local.yml
├── main.yml
├── proxmox-lxc
│   ├── proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-docker-lxc
│   │   ├── group_vars
│   │   │   └── proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-docker-lxc.yml
│   │   └── main.yml
│   ├── proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-standard-lxc
│   │   ├── group_vars
│   │   │   └── proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-standard-lxc.yml
│   │   └── main.yml
│   └── proxmox-ubuntu-unprivileged-standard-lxc
│       ├── group_vars
│       │   └── proxmox-ubuntu-unprivileged-standard-lxc.yml
│       └── main.yml
└── proxmox.yml

Feel free to update group_vars for proxmox-ubuntu-*.yml to fit your need.

Relevant Playbooks Preview

./playbooks/proxmox/
├── bake-lxc
│   ├── privileged
│   │   ├── purge-lxc.yml
│   │   ├── ubuntu-2204-docker.yml
│   │   └── ubuntu-2204-standard.yml
│   └── unprivileged
│       ├── purge-lxc.yml
│       └── ubuntu-2204-standard.yml
├── start-proxmox-vm.yml
└── stop-proxmox-vm.yml

How to Run

Bake ubuntu-2204-privileged-standard-lxc-template

cd $HOME/cloud-estate/ansible-playbooks
ansible-playbook -e ansible_become_pass=<localhost password> -i inventory/proxmox-lxc/proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-standard-lxc/ playbooks/proxmox/bake-lxc/privileged/ubuntu-2204-standard.yml

Purge ubuntu-2204-privileged-standard-lxc-template

cd $HOME/cloud-estate/ansible-playbooks
ansible-playbook -e ansible_become_pass=<localhost password> -i inventory/proxmox-lxc/proxmox-ubuntu-privileged-standard-lxc/ playbooks/proxmox/bake-lxc/privileged/purge-lxc.yml

References

• Ansible roles directory structure overview | Beginners Guide
• Create LXC Templates
• Extract a substring from a variable in Ansible
• Regex after matched string and white space in Ansible
• Ansible Handlers: running operations on change
• Ansible-playbook: directly run handler
• Creating a new user and password with Ansible
• ansible.builtin.meta module – Execute Ansible ‘actions’
• Ansible Special Variables