Ansible Role: Proxmox KVM Management

Create and manage Proxmox KVM virtual machines.

Requirements

See requirements.txt.

Use this command to install all requirements:

python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt

Setup credentials in ENV with:

source extras/proxmox-variables.sh

The script will add automatically @pem to the username.

If you prefer, you can setup the credentials in a secure vault file, using these parameters:

credentials:
  username: root@pem
  password: yourpassword

Role Variables

See defaults/globals.yml for the complete list of variables. See also proxmox_kvm module page.

Dependencies

Module community.general.proxmox_kvm that can be found in collection community.general.

Usage

Define a inventory of virtual machines in this format:

kvm_guests:
  hosts:
   vm1:
     net: {"net0":"virtio=32:5F:B4:35:16:0F,bridge=vmbr0"}
     scsi: {"scsi0":"local-lvm:8,ssd=1"}
     bootdisk: 'scsi0'
     cores: 1
     memory: 1024
     balloon: 512
     vga: vmware
   vm2:
     net: {"net0":"virtio=32:5F:B4:37:16:0F,bridge=vmbr1"}
     scsi: {"scsi0":"local-lvm:16,ssd=1"}
     bootdisk: 'scsi0'
     cores: 4
     memory: 4096
     protection: yes

Execute playbook:

ansible-playbook ansible-proxmox-kvm-mgmt.yml --tags "OPERATION"

Tag OPERATION:

Create VMs
- present
- create
Start VMs
- started
- start
Delete VMs
- absent
- delete
Stop VMs
- stopped
- stop
Restart VMs
- restarted
- restart
List VMs
- current
- list
Update VMs
- update

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: localhost  
  roles:
    - ansible-proxmox-kvm-mgmt
  vars:
    - global_api_host: NODE_IP or NODE_DNS_NAME
    - global_node: "NODENAME"
    - vm_list:
        - name: example-vm1
          net: {"net0":"virtio=32:5F:B4:35:16:0F,bridge=vmbr0"}
          scsi: {"scsi0":"local-lvm:8,ssd=1"}
          bootdisk: 'scsi0'

And other variables from defaults/main/globals.yml

License

GPL-3.0