Changes LXC deployment role and introduces a new playbook for that

playbooks/deploy_and_set_up_lxc_on_proxmox.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+---
+- name: Deploy and set up an LXC container in Proxmox
+  hosts: all
+  remote_user: ansible
+  roles:
+    - ../roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox
+  vars_files:
+    ../inventory/group_vars/all/secrets.yaml
+  vars:
+    ansible_user_passwd_hash: "{{ ansible_password | password_hash('sha512', 's3edscrj45e6r') }}"
+    user_passwd_hash: "{{ user_password | password_hash('sha512', 's3ed6123jhgcr') }}"

playbooks/maintain.yaml

@@ -2,11 +2,28 @@
 - name: Physical machines maintanance play
   hosts: all
   remote_user: ansible
-  roles:
+
-    - ../roles/common_healthcheck
   vars_files:
     ../inventory/group_vars/all/secrets.yaml
   vars:
     ansible_user_passwd_hash: "{{ ansible_password | password_hash('sha512', 's3edscrj45e6r') }}"
     user_passwd_hash: "{{ user_password | password_hash('sha512', 's3ed6123jhgcr') }}"
-    ha_addr: https://ha.lan
+
+  vars_prompt:
+    - name: lxc_hostname
+      prompt: "Hostname for the container:"
+      private: false
+
+    - name: lxc_root_password
+      prompt: "Root password:"
+      private: true
+      confirm: true
+      encrypt: sha512_crypt
+
+    - name: lxc_ip_address
+      prompt: "IP address for the container (in x.x.x.x/x formant):"
+      private: false
+
+
+  roles:
+    - ../roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox 

roles/deploy_lxc_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ---
 
-- name: Create new container with minimal options defining network interface with static ip
+- name: Create a new container with minimal options defining network interface with static ip
   become: false
   community.proxmox.proxmox:
     validate_certs: false
@@ -11,20 +11,21 @@
     api_token_secret: "{{ proxmox_token_secret }}"
 
     cmode: "shell"
-    vmid: 1040
+    password: "{{ lxc_root_password }}"
-    password: ansible-test
+    hostname: "{{ lxc_hostname }}"
-    hostname: "ansible-test"
-    # ostemplate: 'main:vztmpl/debian-13-standard_13.1-2_amd64.tar.zst'
     ostemplate: 'main:vztmpl/debian-13-golden-image.tar.gz'
     memory: 2048
-    cores: 5
+    cores: 2
     state: present
     disk_volume:
-      size: 2 # 2GB rootfs
+      # This is minimal requirement for rootfs
+      # It might be resized later
+      size: 4 # 4GB rootfs
+      # We put rootfs on fast local storage (NVMe SSD)
       storage: local
     pubkey: "{{ lookup('file', lookup('env', 'HOME') + '/.ssh/ansible_key.pub') }}"
     netif:
-      net0: "name=eth0,gw=192.168.0.1,ip=192.168.0.40/24,bridge=vmbr0"
+      net0: "name=eth0,gw=192.168.0.1,ip={{ lxc_ip_address }},bridge=vmbr0"
 
 - name: Make sure the container has started
   become: false