Proxmox Templates Made Easy: Ansible Automation

In this video I step through how I am creating my proxmox templates showcasing how Ansible can quickly and effortlessly create Proxmox templates. Watch as we demonstrate the power of Ansible in our virtualization environment, saving time and ensuring consistency across our Proxmox cluster. Using ansible, I am able to create a template for ubuntu 20.04, 22.04 and 23.04.

Links:

Ansible role for the templates:
https://github.com/Rhoat/ansibleRole-...
Ansible docs:
https://docs.ansible.com/
Ansible for Devops by Jeff Geerling (free and open source):
https://leanpub.com/ansible-for-devop...

Timestamps:

00:00​ - Introduction
01:17​ - Explaining the variables
05:38​ - Playbook setup
06:22​ - Explaining the role
10:57 - Attempt 1 Running
11:30​ - Fixing playbook error
12:34 - Attempt 2 Running
13:03​ - Conclusion

These templates allow me to create my infrastructure much faster than manually stepping through the UI every time I want to create a proxmox vm.

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