roles/deploy_vm_on_proxmox/tasks/main.yaml

@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 ---
-- name: Create a new VM with minimal options
+
+- name: Check if VM already exists
+  community.proxmox.proxmox_kvm:
+    validate_certs: false
+    node: proxmox-server
+    api_user: root@pam
+    api_host: 192.168.0.2
+    api_token_id: ansible
+    api_token_secret: "{{ proxmox_token_secret }}"
+    
+    name: "{{ vm_hostname }}"
+    state: current
+  ignore_errors: true
+  register: vm_status
+
+
+- name: Create a new VM with minimal options only if it doesn't exist
+  when: vm_status is failed or 'does not exist in cluster' in vm_status.msg
   become: false
   community.proxmox.proxmox_kvm:
     validate_certs: false
@@ -77,7 +94,7 @@
     name: "{{ vm_hostname }}"
     state: started
 
-- name: Sleep for 2 minutes to make sure that VM has started and cloud init has done its thing
+- name: Sleep for 120 seconds just to make sure that all settings are applied
   become: false
   ansible.builtin.wait_for:
     timeout: 120