This is a 3-node proxmox-ve cluster wrapped in a vagrant environment.

Each node has the following components and is connected to the following networks:

The second node (pve2.example.com) is running:

• One Alpine Linux container provisioned by provision-alpine-template-container.sh and booted from the alpine template.
  • You can login with the root username and vagrant password.
• One Debian Live virtual machine provisioned by provision-debian-live-virtual-machine.sh and booted from the rgl/debian-live-builder-vagrant iso.
  • You can login with the vagrant username and no password.
  • This VM is also configured through cloud-init as supported by proxmox.
  • NB If you are using VirtualBox, you need to use version 6.1 or later.

Usage

Build and install the proxmox-ve Base Box.

Add the following entries to your /etc/hosts file:

10.0.1.254 example.com
10.0.1.201 pve1.example.com
10.0.1.202 pve2.example.com
10.0.1.203 pve3.example.com

Install the following Vagrant plugins:

vagrant plugin install vagrant-reload   # see https://github.com/aidanns/vagrant-reload

Start the environment:

vagrant up --no-destroy-on-error --no-tty --provider=libvirt

Trust the Example CA. If your host is Ubuntu based, run, in a bash shell:

# for OpenSSL based applications (e.g. wget, curl, http):
sudo cp shared/example-ca/example-ca-crt.pem /usr/local/share/ca-certificates/example-ca.crt
sudo update-ca-certificates -v
# for NSS based applications (e.g. chromium, chrome):
# see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/NSS/Tools
sudo apt install -y libnss3-tools
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -A -t 'C,,' -n example-ca -i shared/example-ca/example-ca-crt.pem
certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -L
#certutil -d sql:$HOME/.pki/nssdb -D -n example-ca # delete.
# for legacy NSS based applications (e.g. firefox, thunderbird):
for d in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default $HOME/.thunderbird/*.default; do
  certutil -d dbm:$d -A -t 'C,,' -n example-ca -i shared/example-ca/example-ca-crt.pem
  certutil -d dbm:$d -L
  #certutil -d sql:$d -D -n example-ca # delete.
done

If your host is Windows based, run, in a Administrator PowerShell shell:

Import-Certificate `
    -FilePath shared/example-ca/example-ca-crt.der `
    -CertStoreLocation Cert:/LocalMachine/Root

Access the Proxmox Web Administration endpoint at either one of the nodes, e.g., at:

https://pve1.example.com:8006

Login as root and use the vagrant password.

Hyper-V

Follow the rgl/debian-vagrant Hyper-V Usage section.

Create the required virtual switches:

PowerShell -NoLogo -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass <<'EOF'
@(
  @{Name='proxmox-service'; IpAddress='10.0.1.1'}
  @{Name='proxmox-cluster'; IpAddress='10.0.2.1'}
  @{Name='proxmox-storage'; IpAddress='10.0.3.1'}
) | ForEach-Object {
  $switchName = $_.Name
  $switchIpAddress = $_.IpAddress
  $networkAdapterName = "vEthernet ($switchName)"
  $networkAdapterIpAddress = $switchIpAddress
  $networkAdapterIpPrefixLength = 24

  # create the vSwitch.
  New-VMSwitch -Name $switchName -SwitchType Internal | Out-Null

  # assign it an host IP address.
  $networkAdapter = Get-NetAdapter $networkAdapterName
  $networkAdapter | New-NetIPAddress `
      -IPAddress $networkAdapterIpAddress `
      -PrefixLength $networkAdapterIpPrefixLength `
      | Out-Null
}

# remove all virtual switches from the windows firewall.
Set-NetFirewallProfile `
    -DisabledInterfaceAliases (
            Get-NetAdapter -name "vEthernet*" | Where-Object {$_.ifIndex}
        ).InterfaceAlias
EOF

Reference

• Proxmox VE Cluster Manager
• Proxmox VE Ceph Server
• Proxmox VE RADOS Block Device (RBD) Storage Pool Type
• Ceph Intro and Architectural Overview by Ross Turk