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community.general.proxmox module – Management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster

Note

This module is part of the community.general collection (version 5.8.3).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general. You need further requirements to be able to use this module, see Requirements for details.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.proxmox.

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)
Since community.general 4.0.0 on, there are no more default values, see proxmox_default_behavior.

Requirements 

The below requirements are needed on the host that executes this module.

proxmoxer
requests

Parameters 

Parameter	Comments
api_host string / required	Specify the target host of the Proxmox VE cluster.
api_password string	Specify the password to authenticate with. You can use `PROXMOX_PASSWORD` environment variable.
api_token_id string added in community.general 1.3.0	Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret string added in community.general 1.3.0	Specify the token secret.
api_user string / required	Specify the user to authenticate with.
clone integer added in community.general 4.3.0	ID of the container to be cloned. description, hostname, and pool will be copied from the cloned container if not specified. The type of clone created is defined by the clone_type parameter. This operator is only supported for Proxmox clusters that use LXC containerization (PVE version >= 4).
clone_type string added in community.general 4.3.0	Type of the clone created. `full` creates a full clone, and storage must be specified. `linked` creates a linked clone, and the cloned container must be a template container. `opportunistic` creates a linked clone if the cloned container is a template container, and a full clone if not. storage may be specified, if not it will fall back to the default. Choices: `"full"` `"linked"` `"opportunistic"` ← (default)
cores integer	Specify number of cores per socket. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `1`.
cpus integer	numbers of allocated cpus for instance This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `1`.
cpuunits integer	CPU weight for a VM This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `1000`.
description string added in community.general 0.2.0	Specify the description for the container. Only used on the configuration web interface. This is saved as a comment inside the configuration file.
disk string	This option was previously described as “hard disk size in GB for instance” however several formats describing a lxc mount are permitted. Older versions of Proxmox will accept a numeric value for size using the storage parameter to automatically choose which storage to allocate from, however new versions enforce the `<STORAGE>:<SIZE>` syntax. Additional options are available by using some combination of the following key-value pairs as a comma-delimited list `[volume=]<volume> [,acl=<1\|0>] [,mountoptions=<opt[;opt...]>] [,quota=<1\|0>] [,replicate=<1\|0>] [,ro=<1\|0>] [,shared=<1\|0>] [,size=<DiskSize>]`. See https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container for a full description. This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `3`.
features list / elements=string added in community.general 2.0.0	Specifies a list of features to be enabled. For valid options, see https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Linux_Container#pct_options. Some features require the use of a privileged container.
force boolean	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 Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
hookscript string added in community.general 0.2.0	Script that will be executed during various steps in the containers lifetime.
hostname string	the instance hostname required only for `state=present` must be unique if vmid is not passed
ip_address string	specifies the address the container will be assigned
memory integer	memory size in MB for instance This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `512`.
mounts dictionary	specifies additional mounts (separate disks) for the container. As a hash/dictionary defining mount points
nameserver string	sets DNS server IP address for a container
netif dictionary	specifies network interfaces for the container. As a hash/dictionary defining interfaces.
node string	Proxmox VE node on which to operate. Only required for state=present. For every other states it will be autodiscovered.
onboot boolean	specifies whether a VM will be started during system bootup This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `false`. Choices: `false` `true`
ostemplate string	the template for VM creating required only for `state=present`
password string	the instance root password
pool string	Add the new VM to the specified pool.
proxmox_default_behavior string added in community.general 1.3.0	As of community.general 4.0.0, various options no longer have default values. These default values caused problems when users expected different behavior from Proxmox by default or filled options which caused problems when set. The value `compatibility` (default before community.general 4.0.0) will ensure that the default values are used when the values are not explicitly specified by the user. The new default is `no_defaults`, which makes sure these options have no defaults. This affects the disk, cores, cpus, memory, onboot, swap, cpuunits options. Choices: `"compatibility"` `"no_defaults"` ← (default)
pubkey string	Public key to add to /root/.ssh/authorized_keys. This was added on Proxmox 4.2, it is ignored for earlier versions
purge boolean added in community.general 2.3.0	Remove container from all related configurations. For example backup jobs, replication jobs, or HA. Related ACLs and Firewall entries will always be removed. Used with state `absent`. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
searchdomain string	sets DNS search domain for a container
state string	Indicate desired state of the instance Choices: `"present"` ← (default) `"started"` `"absent"` `"stopped"` `"restarted"`
storage string	target storage Default: `"local"`
swap integer	swap memory size in MB for instance This option has no default unless proxmox_default_behavior is set to `compatiblity`; then the default is `0`.
timeout integer	timeout for operations Default: `30`
unprivileged boolean	Indicate if the container should be unprivileged. The default value for this parameter is `false` but that is deprecated and it will be replaced with `true` in community.general 7.0.0. Choices: `false` `true`
validate_certs boolean	If `false`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates. Choices: `false` ← (default) `true`
vmid integer	Specifies the instance ID. If not set the next available ID will be fetched from ProxmoxAPI.

Examples 

- name: Create new container with minimal options
  community.general.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'

- name: Create new container with hookscript and description
  community.general.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'
    hookscript: 'local:snippets/vm_hook.sh'
    description: created with ansible

- name: Create new container automatically selecting the next available vmid.
  community.general.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'

- name: Create new container with minimal options with force(it will rewrite existing container)
  community.general.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: true

- name: Create new container with minimal options use environment PROXMOX_PASSWORD variable(you should export it before)
  community.general.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'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with dhcp
  community.general.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"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with static ip
  community.general.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"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining a mount with 8GB
  community.general.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/"}'

- name: Create new container with minimal options defining a cpu core limit
  community.general.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

- name: Create a new container with nesting enabled and allows the use of CIFS/NFS inside the container.
  community.general.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'
    features:
     - nesting=1
     - mount=cifs,nfs

- name: >
    Create a linked clone of the template container with id 100. The newly created container with be a
    linked clone, because no storage parameter is defined
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 201
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    clone: 100
    hostname: clone.example.org

- name: Create a full clone of the container with id 100
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 201
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    clone: 100
    hostname: clone.example.org
    storage: local

- name: Start container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: started

- name: >
    Start container with mount. You should enter a 90-second timeout because servers
    with additional disks take longer to boot
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: started
    timeout: 90

- name: Stop container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: stopped

- name: Stop container with force
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    force: true
    state: stopped

- name: Restart container(stopped or mounted container you can't restart)
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: restarted

- name: Remove container
  community.general.proxmox:
    vmid: 100
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    state: absent

Authors

Sergei Antipov (@UnderGreen)

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community.general.proxmox module – Management of instances in Proxmox VE cluster

Synopsis

Requirements

Parameters

Examples