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I really wish Proxmox had an official Terraform provider (self.selfhosted)

submitted 10 months ago by MigratingtoLemmy to c/selfhosted

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I might not deserve to say this, but I really wish Proxmox GmbH maintained an "official" terraform provider instead of relying on the community completely for it, à la Vates (XCP-ng). To be fair, it was the same with VMWare, so I'm not putting the blame on them.

For example, neither one out of the two well known Terraform providers (Telemate and bpg) support the newer SDN capabilities. Now, of course, it's new so I completely understand that it would take time to write code for said functionality. Especially when it's a community effort. It's just that if Proxmox handled it directly I feel like the community would be able to better support them by supplementing features on top of a base that they create instead of going from scratch.

I believe Proxmox has said that Terraform is not their priority, and I understand. It's a bad economy and companies are looking to downsize anyway. With that said, I hope I do get to see this someday.

Speaking of which, which IaC tool do you use for your Proxmox install/cluster?

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[–] TCB13 -5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Well Proxmox doesn't have it... however LXD/Incus has one. Maybe you should try it as a replacement for Proxmox? I mean it's new, new generation software, can be installed in a clean Debian 12 setup from the repositories and does both containers and VMs.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, it's very new and I'd like to give it some time to mature. With that said, I'm happy to see a SUSE developer take it on.

It also has some great capabilities and let's me handle my storage and hardware whilst providing me paradigms akin to the Cloud a la Openstack (to an extent). It seems great, thanks for mentioning it.

[–] TCB13 -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Very new? The thing has been around since 2018. Anyways I know for a fact that a few cloud providers and some enterprise types are using it to power their infrastructure.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Could you tell me which cloud providers are using Incus?

It's a bit hard to search info about it with the name. But it's a fantastic project

[–] TCB13 -1 points 10 months ago

It’s a bit hard to search info about it with the name. But it’s a fantastic project

Searching for LXD usually returns more useful information... Incus is just a fork as you know.