Creating Proxmox Templates With Packer

Aaron Berry
6 min readApr 1, 2020

I’ve been using proxmox for a while now in my homelab as an open-source alternative for a virtualization platform like ESXi. One useful feature in proxmox is the templates which allows us to create a LXC or VM templates that can then be cloned as a starting off point for new proxmox resources. Now with these templates we are able to have a standard starting point to install our applications on top of, pre install packages…

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Aaron Berry

Software Engineer working in Data Engineer and DevOps. Tinkering with anything automation, containers and servers in the cloud.