community.general.proxmox_template – management of OS templates in Proxmox VE cluster

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

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.

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

Synopsis

allows you to upload/delete templates in Proxmox VE cluster

Requirements

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

proxmoxer
requests

Parameters

Parameter	Choices/Defaults	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 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token ID.
api_token_secret string added in 1.3.0 of community.general		Specify the token secret.
api_user string / required		Specify the user to authenticate with.
content_type string	Choices: vztmpl ← iso	content type required only for `state=present`
force boolean	Choices: no ← yes	can be used only with `state=present`, exists template will be overwritten
node string		Proxmox VE node on which to operate.
src path		path to uploaded file required only for `state=present`
state string	Choices: present ← absent	Indicate desired state of the template
storage string	Default: "local"	target storage
template string		the template name Required for state `absent` to delete a template. Required for state `present` to download an appliance container template (pveam).
timeout integer	Default: 30	timeout for operations
validate_certs boolean	Choices: no ← yes	If `no`, SSL certificates will not be validated. This should only be used on personally controlled sites using self-signed certificates.

Notes

Note

Requires proxmoxer and requests modules on host. This modules can be installed with pip.

Examples

- name: Upload new openvz template with minimal options
  community.general.proxmox_template:
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    src: ~/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz

- name: >
    Upload new openvz template with minimal options use environment
    PROXMOX_PASSWORD variable(you should export it before)
  community.general.proxmox_template:
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_host: node1
    src: ~/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz

- name: Upload new openvz template with all options and force overwrite
  community.general.proxmox_template:
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    storage: local
    content_type: vztmpl
    src: ~/ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz
    force: yes

- name: Delete template with minimal options
  community.general.proxmox_template:
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    template: ubuntu-14.04-x86_64.tar.gz
    state: absent

- name: Download proxmox appliance container template
  community.general.proxmox_template:
    node: uk-mc02
    api_user: root@pam
    api_password: 1q2w3e
    api_host: node1
    storage: local
    content_type: vztmpl
    template: ubuntu-20.04-standard_20.04-1_amd64.tar.gz

Authors

Sergei Antipov (@UnderGreen)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
© 2018–2021 Red Hat, Inc.
Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_template_module.html

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