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…

Aaron Berry

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