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proxmox - management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster
New in version 2.0.
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)
 
Requirements
The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.
- proxmoxer
 - python >= 2.7
 - requests
 
Parameters
| Parameter | Choices/Defaults | Comments | 
|---|---|---|
| api_host  
        required
         | 
      
        
        the host of the Proxmox VE cluster
         | 
     |
| api_password | 
        
        the password to authenticate with
        
       
        you can use PROXMOX_PASSWORD environment variable
         | 
     |
| api_user  
        required
         | 
      
        
        the user to authenticate with
         | 
     |
| cores  
        (added in 2.4)
         | 
      Default: 
        1
         | 
      
        
        Specify number of cores per socket.
         | 
     
| cpus | Default: 
        1
         | 
      
        
        numbers of allocated cpus for instance
         | 
     
| cpuunits | Default: 
        1000
         | 
      
        
        CPU weight for a VM
         | 
     
| disk | Default: 
        3
         | 
      
        
        hard disk size in GB for instance
         | 
     
| force  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        forcing operations
        
       
        can be used only with states  
       present, stopped, restarted
       
        with  
       state=present force option allow to overwrite existing container
       
        with states  stopped , restarted allow to force stop instance
        | 
     
| hostname | 
        
        the instance hostname
        
       
        required only for  
       state=present
       
        must be unique if vmid is not passed
         | 
     |
| ip_address | 
        
        specifies the address the container will be assigned
         | 
     |
| memory | Default: 
        512
         | 
      
        
        memory size in MB for instance
         | 
     
| mounts  
        (added in 2.2)
         | 
      
        
        specifies additional mounts (separate disks) for the container. As a hash/dictionary defining mount points
         | 
     |
| nameserver | 
        
        sets DNS server IP address for a container
         | 
     |
| netif | 
        
        specifies network interfaces for the container. As a hash/dictionary defining interfaces.
         | 
     |
| node | 
        
        Proxmox VE node, when new VM will be created
        
       
        required only for  
       state=present
       
        for another states will be autodiscovered
         | 
     |
| onboot  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        specifies whether a VM will be started during system bootup
         | 
     
| ostemplate | 
        
        the template for VM creating
        
       
        required only for  state=present
        | 
     |
| password | 
        
        the instance root password
        
       
        required only for  state=present
        | 
     |
| pool  
        (added in 2.3)
         | 
      
        
        Proxmox VE resource pool
         | 
     |
| pubkey  
        (added in 2.3)
         | 
      
        
        Public key to add to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. This was added on Proxmox 4.2, it is ignored for earlier versions
         | 
     |
| searchdomain | 
        
        sets DNS search domain for a container
         | 
     |
| state | 
       
  | 
      
        
        Indicate desired state of the instance
         | 
     
| storage | Default: 
        "local"
         | 
      
        
        target storage
         | 
     
| swap | Default: 
        0
         | 
      
        
        swap memory size in MB for instance
         | 
     
| timeout | Default: 
        30
         | 
      
        
        timeout for operations
         | 
     
| unprivileged  
        bool
         
        (added in 2.3)
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        Indicate if the container should be unprivileged
         | 
     
| validate_certs  
        bool
         | 
      
       
  | 
      
        
        enable / disable https certificate verification
         | 
     
| vmid | 
        
        the instance id
        
       
        if not set, the next available VM ID will be fetched from ProxmoxAPI.
        
       
        if not set, will be fetched from PromoxAPI based on the hostname
         | 
     
Notes
Note
- Requires proxmoxer and requests modules on host. This modules can be installed with pip.
 
Examples
# Create new container with minimal options
- 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'
# Create new container automatically selecting the next available vmid.
- 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'
# Create new container with minimal options with force(it will rewrite existing container)
- 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
# Create new container with minimal options use environment PROXMOX_PASSWORD variable(you should export it before)
- 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'
# Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with dhcp
- 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"}'
# Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with static ip
- 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"}'
# Create new container with minimal options defining a mount
- 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/"}'
# Create new container with minimal options defining a cpu core limit
- 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
# Start container
- proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: started
# Stop container
- proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: stopped
# Stop container with force
- proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    force: yes
    state: stopped
# Restart container(stopped or mounted container you can't restart)
- proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: stopped
# Remove container
- proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: absent
  Status
This module is flagged as preview which means that it is not guaranteed to have a backwards compatible interface.
Maintenance
This module is flagged as community which means that it is maintained by the Ansible Community. See Module Maintenance & Support for more info.
For a list of other modules that are also maintained by the Ansible Community, see here.
Author
- Sergei Antipov @UnderGreen
 
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