PVE Cloud-Init Creator

Proxmox VE Cloud-Init Creator (pvecic)

Scope

Proxmox VE supports Cloud Init so one can easily bootstrap VM’s without PXE/Kickstart/Preseed/…

This project provides the following tools to do so:

• client binary to interact with PVE cluster nodes
• pvecic-snippets-endpoint: snippets API endpoint
• pvecic-image-mirror: serve local mirror of Ubuntu cloud images
• pvecic-image-sync: sync local mirror of Ubuntu cloud images

Standing on the shoulders of giants, tools being used:

• proxmoxer: PVE API communication
• rclone: Simple HTTP WEBDAV server for snippets (until snippet upload is possible through API itself, see feature request in bugtracker) and cloud-image mirror
• Nuitka: pre-compiling python code to single binary
• Packer (optional): customize the cloud images

Motivation was to setup dynamic Gitlab runners for a multiarch docker image build here.