Proxmox Cloud Images

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We will now create our base VM cloud images and using cloudinit to configure them.

Ubuntu image using CLI

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These steps can be followed for any cloud image of your choice and will work with for example Rocky linux, etc.

Choose your image at Ubuntu Cloud

ssh to proxmox node

ssh root@pve

Download Image

wget https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/noble/current/noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img

Create VM

qm create 8000 --memory 2048 --core 2 --name ubuntu-cloud --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0

Import the downloaded Ubuntu image to virtuals storage (Change virtuals to the storage of your choice)

qm disk import 8000 noble-server-cloudimg-amd64.img virtuals

Attach disk to VM

qm set 8000 --scsihw virtio-scsi-pci --scsi0 virtuals:vm-8000-disk-0

Add cloud init drive

qm set 8000 --ide2 virtuals:cloudinit

Make cloud init drive bootable and set vm to boot from disk onnly

qm set 8000 --boot c --bootdisk scsi0

Add serial console

qm set 8000 --serial0 socket --vga serial0

Now lets convert this to a template so you can create clones of it to deploy. Firstly you might want to configure your minimum hardware and cloud init settings.

PS: DO NOT START THE VM

Now lets convert it to a template

qm template 8000

Create VM

qm clone 8000 135 --name ubuntu --full

Configure your cloud init settings and start up your new VM

Debian Image using proxmox scripts

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Browse to Proxmox webui and select one of your nodes then >_ Shell.

# Enter the following
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://git.community-scripts.org/community-scripts/ProxmoxVE/raw/branch/main/vm/debian-13-vm.sh)"

Follow on screen prompts and complete the setup then convert your VM to an template.

Troubleshooting

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Reset machine-id

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rm -f /etc/machine-id;
rm -f /var/lib/dbus/machine-id;
systemd-machine-id-setup
shutdown -h now

Covert to template

qm template 8001

Check out Part 3 — Kubernetes