Ansible to Proxmox returning 500 error - ansible

Question

I am trying to use Ansible to provision some VMs on my newly set up Proxmox VE. I have installed proxmoxer and request with PIP on both my local Mac and Proxmox VE (Python 2 on Proxmox and Python 3 locally). I use Ansible 2.4.3.0, Proxmox version: 5.1-41.
I do have a vm with the id of 100, which was created from a Debian template, the vm is located on local-lvm (pve).
My full playbook can be found at: https://github.com/atwright147/ansible-contact-book-proxmox-provisioner, the specific task is pasted below:
---
- proxmox_kvm:
api_user: root#pam
api_password: REDACTED
api_host: pve
vmid: 100
state: current
When running this script via: ansible-playbook -vvv --connection=local -i hosts site.yml I get the following error:
The full traceback is:
File "/tmp/ansible_TDEJsZ/ansible_module_proxmox_kvm.py", line 1227, in main
current = getattr(proxmox.nodes(vm[0]['node']), VZ_TYPE)(vmid).status.current.get()['status']
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 84, in get
return self(args)._request("GET", params=params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/proxmoxer/core.py", line 79, in _request
resp.content))
fatal: [192.168.0.22]: FAILED! => {
"changed": false,
"invocation": {
"module_args": {
"acpi": true,
"agent": null,
"api_host": "pve",
"api_password": "VALUE_SPECIFIED_IN_NO_LOG_PARAMETER",
"api_user": "root#pam",
"args": null,
"autostart": false,
"balloon": 0,
"bios": null,
"boot": "cnd",
"bootdisk": null,
"clone": null,
"cores": 1,
"cpu": "kvm64",
"cpulimit": null,
"cpuunits": 1000,
"delete": null,
"description": null,
"digest": null,
"force": null,
"format": "qcow2",
"freeze": null,
"full": true,
"hostpci": null,
"hotplug": null,
"hugepages": null,
"ide": null,
"keyboard": null,
"kvm": true,
"localtime": null,
"lock": null,
"machine": null,
"memory": 512,
"migrate_downtime": null,
"migrate_speed": null,
"name": null,
"net": null,
"newid": null,
"node": null,
"numa": null,
"numa_enabled": null,
"onboot": true,
"ostype": "l26",
"parallel": null,
"pool": null,
"protection": null,
"reboot": null,
"revert": null,
"sata": null,
"scsi": null,
"scsihw": null,
"serial": null,
"shares": null,
"skiplock": null,
"smbios": null,
"snapname": null,
"sockets": 1,
"startdate": null,
"startup": null,
"state": "current",
"storage": null,
"tablet": false,
"target": null,
"tdf": null,
"template": false,
"timeout": 30,
"update": false,
"validate_certs": false,
"vcpus": null,
"vga": "std",
"virtio": null,
"vmid": 100,
"watchdog": null
}
},
"msg": "Unable to get vm None with vmid = 100 status: 500 Internal Server Error: {\"data\":null}"
}
Ansible info:
ansible 2.4.3.0
config file = /Users/andy/Development/proxmox-playbooks/contact-book/ansible.cfg
configured module search path = ['/Users/andy/.ansible/plugins/modules', '/usr/share/ansible/plugins/modules']
ansible python module location = /usr/local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/ansible
executable location = /usr/local/bin/ansible
python version = 3.6.4 (default, Jan 25 2018, 18:48:20) [GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.38)]
What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

It turned out that I was making several mistakes here.
I should have been using the proxmox module rather than proxmox_kvm
I needed to use the storage param to set up the container in local-lvm e.g. storage: local-lvm
My final, working task looks like this:
- name: "Create a Linux Container (LXC)"
proxmox:
node: pve
api_user: root#pam
api_password: proxmox_password
api_host: pve
password: vm_password
hostname: vm.hostname.local
ostemplate: "local:vztmpl/ubuntu-16.04-standard_16.04-1_amd64.tar.gz"
storage: local-lvm
cores: 2
state: present