Managing Proxmox with Terraform: Treating Your Homelab as Code
Clicking through the Proxmox web UI to build a VM is fine the first few times. It stops being fine once you’re rebuilding the same handful of VMs for the fifth time after a test, or trying to remember exactly which CPU type, disk size, and network bridge you used for a box six months ago. Terraform (or its open-source fork OpenTofu, which this article treats as interchangeable since the Proxmox providers work with either) fixes that by making the VM’s configuration a text file instead of a memory. This is not about replacing Proxmox’s own tooling, it’s about not having to rebuild a guest from memory ever again. ...