Building a cloud-init template with Almalinux8 on Proxmox

How to build a cloud-init template with Almalinux8

Prerequisites

Connect on your proxmox server and export the following variables

export CI_IMAGE="AlmaLinux-8-GenericCloud-latest.x86_64.qcow2"

export PM_STORAGE="local-lvm"

export VM_NAME="almalinux-8-cloudinit-template"
export VM_ID=1000
export VM_MEM=1024
export VM_OPTS=-"-net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr1"

Build

Download a pre-configured image from AlmaLinux’s official repositories.

wget https://repo.almalinux.org/almalinux/8/cloud/x86_64/images/$CI_IMAGE

Create empty VM

qm create $VM_ID --name $VM_NAME --memory $VM_MEM $VM_OPTS

Import the downloaded image to the VM

$ qm importdisk $VM_ID $CI_IMAGE $PM_STORAGE

Assign the imported disk to scsi0

$ qm set $VM_ID -scsihw virtio-scsi-pci -scsi0 $PM_STORAGE:vm-$VM_ID-disk-0

Add special IDE device for cloud-init :

$ qm set $VM_ID --ide2 $PM_STORAGE:cloudinit

Set it as the boot disk

$ qm set $VM_ID --boot c --bootdisk scsi0

VGA interface for console

$ qm set $VM_ID --serial0 socket --vga serial0

Convert to template:

$ qm template $VM_ID

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Building a cloud-init template with Almalinux8 on Proxmox

Prerequisites

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