Automating Proxmox VM Template Creation with Cloud-Init
The problem
There’s something innate in some people — the drive to fix whatever is annoying. Annoying to some, but apparently default behavior for others.
Since I started my journey with Proxmox, I was amazed by its capabilities, and every release improved on that foundation. But there was trouble in this newfound paradise: one of the most repetitive tasks was creating a VM almost identical to the previous one. Same base OS, same baseline packages, same manual clicking through the same wizard.