Terraform

Basic Proxmox setup

Add TerraformProv role

pveum role add TerraformProv -privs "Datastore.Allocate Datastore.AllocateSpace Datastore.Audit Pool.Allocate Sys.Audit Sys.Console Sys.Modify VM.Allocate VM.Audit VM.Clone VM.Config.CDROM VM.Config.Cloudinit VM.Config.CPU VM.Config.Disk VM.Config.HWType VM.Config.Memory VM.Config.Network VM.Config.Options VM.Console VM.Migrate VM.Monitor VM.PowerMgmt SDN.Use"

Add terraform-prov user

pveum user add terraform-prov@pve --password <password>

Set terraform-prov user TerraformProv role

pveum aclmod / -user terraform-prov@pve -role TerraformProv

Create proxmox token for terraform API

pveum user token add terraform-prov@pve terraform -expire 0 -privsep 0 -comment "Terraform token"

Client Setup

Add environment variable

cp terraform.tfvars.example

fill with your secrets (do no push this file)

usefull commandes

opentofu.tofu init
opentofu.tofu plan
opentofu.tofu apply
opentofu.tofu destroy

on WSL

ssh agent could be off if ssh-add -L gives

Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

start and configure ssh agent

eval $(ssh-agent)
ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_ed25519