Create VM Templates

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Tasks

• [x] Create SSH Keys

• [x] Connect Packer API Credentials

• [x] Create/Clone Packer Ubuntu server file

• [ ] Create/Clone Packer user data and metadata files

• [ ] Create a Cloud-Init Base

  • [ ] Create a template from this Cloud-init disk
  • [ ] Manually using the base image to create a Virtual Machine

YouTube Videos by Christian Lempa

• Proxmox virtual machine automation in Terraform
• Create VMs on Proxmox in Seconds!

References

Articles by Fatzombi

• Deploying your VMs with Terraform Pt. 1

• Deploying your VMs with Terraform Pt. 2

• Deploying your VMs with Terraform Pt. 3

Articles by Kevin Summers

• Terraform: Deploy VM to Proxmox

• Connect Proxmox and Terraform using Provider and API

• Create a Cloud-Init Base Image for Ubuntu in Proxmox with Bash

Cloud Init References

• Terraform Cloud Init Official Docs
• Cloud Init w/ Proxmox