TechnoTim has a great video on how to deploy ubuntu VMs on proxmox using cloud init. I’ve used this exact guide to deploy my machines for years now, and even automated it with Ansible. Now, I’m attempting to expand my Ansible roles to support other potential operating systems that I may …

If you’ve followed my recent posts, you’ll know that I’ve been on a learning journey to pick up Ansible for automating my homelab. The goal was to have one master playbook, ‘one playbook to rule them all,’ which would not only handle configuring servers and managing my services running in Docker but …

Earlier this week I tried using Ansible to declaratively define the VMs in my homelab’s Proxmox cluster. My method of attack was to basically ‘lift and shift’ my manual methods into an automation platform. What do I mean by this? Well, my manual method was to right-click and clone a cloud-init …