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Hi, got Proxmox installed. Now want to install some VMs but would like to use a simple setup rather than painfully going trough an install. I've read I could accomplish this via ansible. Are there ready playbooks you can hack? Presumably I would need to have Proxmox understand playbooks?

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If you don't want another dependency, just get familiar with the provisioning tools of whatever distro you intend to use (Fedora Kickstart, for example), and learn how to quickly provision custom scripted thing with cloud-init when you provision something.