Comment by dan_quixote | Hacker News Reader

Comment by dan_quixote | Hacker News Reader

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> Proxmox is robust from GUI and CLI.

I'm looking through the CLI docs now and I can't even figure out how to launch a VM. At face value, it doesn't look like a good CLI (well actually they list a bunch of CLI tools for VM management). Am I just looking in the wrong place?

I also want the ability to run setup commands (think AWS user-data) at first boot. The docs indicate user-data support though cloud-init, but I see forum discussions that indicate that you can only set up basic things like IP addresses, SSH keys, etc. Is there a programmatic way to inject bash commands at first boot?

You might want to consider ganeti. It works great from the command-line. There is a GUI for it as a separate project, but I've never used it. I've been running ganeti in dev/stg for 6-7 years and production for around 4, and it's been extremely solid.

As far as running bash commands at first boot, in ganeti I have customized their "create" script to include a bash script that installs some packages, clones our Ansible setup, and then runs Ansible to set the machine up. We respin our entire staging cluster every other day (even machines one day, odd the next).

http://www.ganeti.org/

For documentation: https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/

The "qm" page shows:

  qm start <vmid> [OPTIONS]
  Start virtual machine.

Please read the docs properly mate.

pct - controls containers

qm - controls vms

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