proxmox-ubuntu-cloud-image-preperator

Configurable script that automates generation of ubuntu cloud image templates for Proxmox.

Usage:

Installation and Prerequisites

The Script is supposed to be run directly on a Proxmox Hypervisor, just download it i.E. into the root users directory.

Dependencies

The script tries to install the follwing dependencies:

wget (used for downloading the virtual machine image)
libguestfs-tools (used for customizing the virtual machine image)

Configuration

Configuration is done via exporting certain Environment variables.

export UBUNTU_RELEASE="22.04" # Available versions: 20.04, 21.10, 22.04, 22.10
export VM_NAME="ubuntu-${UBUNTU_RELEASE}-cloudimg"
export STORAGE_POOL="local-lvm"
export VM_ID="10000"
export USERNAME="ubuntu}"
export GITHUB_USERNAME="keyboardinterrupt" # This is used to grab the ssh public key for Login!
export PACKAGES_TO_INSTALL="qemu-guest-agent,htop" # coma seperated list of packages to install

Run the script

bash proxmox-cloud-image-generator.sh

TODO

Improve README.md/documentation
Remove temp directory created by the script

Author

KeyboardInterrupt

KeyboardInterrupt/proxmox-ubuntu-cloud-image-preperator