Molecule Proxmox Plugin

This is an Ansible Molecule Driver plugin to manage instances on a Proxmox VE_ hypervisor cluster. Only virtual machines are supported at this time.

Requirements

• Access to a Proxmox VE_ cluster
• One or more virtual machine templates with required setup
• Python package proxmoxer_
• Ansible module community.general.proxmox_kvm_

The required Python packages are automatically installed when molecule-proxmox is installed with pip.

The proxmox_kvm module is included with the Community.General collection and is automatically installed when Ansible is installed with pip.

Virtual machine template requirements

The molecule instances are created by cloning Proxmox virtual machine templates. You will need to create one or more templates.

Templates have the following requirements.

• A cloud-init drive if any cloud-init settings are used
• networking configured
• Python installed for Ansible
• qemu-guest-agent installed and enabled in Proxmox
• ssh server installed
• user account for Ansible
• An ssh public key must be added to the authorized_keys for the Ansible user account.
• If a non-root user is used for the Ansible user (recommended), that user should be added to the sudoers. (This is not needed for the driver, but will likely be needed for the converge playbook.)

Installation

The molecule-proxmox plugin may be installed with Python pip. A virtualenv is recommended. The following commands install Ansible, Molecule, and the Molecule Proxmox plugin in a virtualenv called venv.

.. code-block:: bash

$ python3 -m venv venv
$ . venv/bin/activate
$ pip3 install ansible-core molecule molecule-proxmox

Examples

.. code-block:: yaml

driver: name: molecule-proxmox options: api_host: # e.g. pve01.example.com api_user: @ # e.g. root@pam api_password: "********" node: pve01 ssh_user: tester ssh_identity_file: /path/to/id_rsa platforms: - name: test01 template_name: debian11 - name: test02 template_name: alma8

.. code-block:: yaml

driver: name: molecule-proxmox options: api_host: # e.g. pve01.example.com api_user: @ # e.g. root@pam # Optional: Use an API token for Proxmox authentication. api_token_id: "********" api_token_secret: "*******************************" node: pve01 ssh_user: tester ssh_identity_file: /path/to/id_rsa # Optional: The default template name. template_name: debian11 # Optional: Set the hostname after cloning. sethostname: yes # Optional: Create the VMs in the pool. pool: test platforms: - name: test01 # Optional: Specify the VM id of the clone. newid: 216 - name: test02 # Optional: Specify the VM id of the clone. newid: 217

.. code-block:: yaml

driver: name: molecule-proxmox options: # Secrets file may be encrypted with ansible-vault. proxmox_secrets: /path/to/proxmox_secrets.yml" node: pve01 ssh_user: tester ssh_identity_file: /path/to/id_rsa template_name: debian11 platforms: - name: test01 - name: test02

.. code-block:: yaml

driver: name: molecule-proxmox options: # Secrets file may be encrypted with ansible-vault. proxmox_secrets: /path/to/proxmox_secrets.yml" node: pve01 ssh_user: tester ssh_identity_file: /path/to/id_rsa template_name: debian11 platforms: - name: test01 template_name: debian11 # See https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_kvm_module.html # for cloud-init options. ciuser: some_user cipassword: some_password ipconfig: ipconfig0: 'ip=192.168.0.2/24,gw=192.168.0.1' nameservers: - 192.169.0.245

Development

To checkout the source code:

.. code-block:: bash

$ git clone https://github.com/meffie/molecule-proxmox
$ cd molecule-proxmox

A Makefile and tox.ini are provided to facilitate development and testing. A Python virtualenv environment may be created with the init target.

.. code-block:: bash

$ make init
$ source .venv/bin/activate

Export the following shell environment variables to run the unit tests.

.. code-block:: bash

# Connection info:
export PROXMOX_HOST=<proxmox hostname>
export PROXMOX_USER=<username@realm>   # e.g. root@pam
export PROXMOX_PASSWORD=<password>
export PROXMOX_TOKEN_ID=<id>
export PROXMOX_TOKEN_SECRET=<secret>
export PROXMOX_NODE=<proxmox node name>
export PROXMOX_SSH_USER=<username>
export PROXMOX_SSH_IDENTITY_FILE=<ssh key file for username>

# Template id and names for unit tests:
export PROXMOX_TEMPLATE_VMID=<template vmid to be cloned in by-vmid scenario>
export PROXMOX_TEMPLATE_NAME=<template name to be cloned in by-name scenario>

To run the unit tests in verbose mode:

.. code-block:: bash

$ make test

To run the unit tests in quiet mode:

.. code-block:: bash

$ make check

Authors

Molecule Proxmox Plugin was created by Michael Meffie based on code from Molecule.

License

The MIT_ License.

.. _Proxmox VE: https://www.proxmox.com/en/proxmox-ve .. _proxmoxer: https://pypi.org/project/proxmoxer/ .. _community.general.proxmox_kvm: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_kvm_module.html .. _MIT: https://github.com/meffie/molecule-proxmox/blob/master/LICENSE