Ansible for Proxmox VE

Workshop materials. Everything here works offline; open slides/index.html in a browser for the presentation.

Your lab environment

Machine	Role	Address	How you reach it
`desktop`	Linux desktop, your Ansible control node	`192.168.0.254`	the VDI session you are sitting in
`pve01`	Proxmox VE node 1, later the cluster primary	`192.168.0.1`	`ssh root@192.168.0.1` · GUI :8006
`pve02`	Proxmox VE node 2	`192.168.0.2`	`ssh root@192.168.0.2` · GUI :8006
`pve03`	Proxmox VE node 3	`192.168.0.3`	`ssh root@192.168.0.3` · GUI :8006

Every participant has an identical, isolated set, which is why the starter project ships a ready-made inventory.

Logins

Proxmox VE nodes — user root, password password123, identical on all three nodes. The same credentials work for SSH and for the web GUI (realm Proxmox VE authentication server).
In the Ansible project — that password goes into inventory/group_vars/pve.yml as pve_root_password, which ships as CHANGE-ME. Modules 03 and 05 need it.
Shared NFS library — nas01.training.credativ.de:/mnt/pool01/shared, holding the ISOs, container templates and the cloud image. Read-only from the nodes; you attach it yourself in module 05.

A throwaway password in a throwaway lab. Nothing here is reachable from outside, and the whole environment is deleted after the workshop.

On the desktop

~/Desktop/Workshop/deploy.sh — run this once to set the desktop up, then open a new terminal. It also puts an SSH key on the three nodes, so nothing asks you for the password above.
~/ansible-proxmox — your working directory, created by deploy.sh from the starter project
~/ansible-venv/bin — the virtualenv holding ansible-core 2.21, community.proxmox 2.x and proxmoxer ≥ 2.3; it is already on your PATH
Lab network 192.168.0.0/24. The desktop is also the gateway, so the nodes reach the internet through the machine you are working on.
Using your own nodes instead? Adjust inventory/hosts.yml in either project.

Slides

Full deck (HTML) — press f for fullscreen, m for the slide menu
Slides as PDF (all modules, 138 pages)

Handouts

Exercise sheets

The PDFs above are what you print. The same handouts and sheets also exist as a browsable site, with a sidebar and links between them — easier when you are looking something up in the middle of an exercise.

Reference

Cheat sheet — commands, module list, the cluster playbook in short
Bonus exercises — six more, with solutions
Starter project — the skeleton with the inventory filled in and TODOs
Reference project — the finished playbooks, the pve_node role and the test suite