I am new to Ansible and I am using Proxmox to create my Linux (LXC) Containers and VM’s
As I am creating and destroying them as I test new things out, I am trying to use Dynamic Inventory against Proxmox to set the username and IP Addresses so SSH can connect without manually typing anything out
I followed the Proxmox Guide and have set out my Groups based on Tags that I have set in Proxmox.
plugin: community.general.proxmox
url: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.ini', 'url', section='proxmox', file='var_pmx.ini') }}"
user: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.ini', 'pmx_user', section='proxmox', file='var_pmx.ini') }}"
password: "{{ lookup('ansible.builtin.ini', 'pmx_password', section='proxmox', file='var_pmx.ini') }}"
want_facts: true
groups:
docker: "'docker' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
ansible_group: "'ansible' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
ubuntu: "'ubuntu' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
redhat: "'rhel' in (proxmox_tags_parsed|list)"
container: "'amd64' in (proxmox_arch)"
compose:
ansible_host: proxmox_agent_interfaces | selectattr('name', 'in', 'eth0,ens18') | map(attribute='ip-addresses') | flatten | first | ipaddr('address')
This is working well for the grouping and returns the IP’s for VM’s but not LXC’s
... # Ubuntu LXC
"kafka": {
"ansible_ssh_user": "root",
"proxmox_arch": "amd64",
...
... # Ubuntu VM
"minke": {
"ansible_host": "192.168.1.190",
"ansible_ssh_user": "ubuntu",
...
Outputting the details with ansible-inventory --list --vars > pmx.txt to a text file, I can see the differences in Networks between:
LXC
...
"proxmox_net0": {
"bridge": "vmbr0",
"firewall": "1",
"gw": "192.168.1.254",
"hwaddr": "66:2D:5E:1C:7E:96",
"ip": "192.168.1.8/24",
"name": "eth0",
"type": "veth"
},
...
VM
"proxmox_agent_interfaces": [
{
"ip-addresses": [
"127.0.0.1/8",
"::1/128"
],
"mac-address": "00:00:00:00:00:00",
"name": "lo"
},
{
"ip-addresses": [
"192.168.1.190/24",
"fe80::9c5f:1dff:fecc:5fc6/64"
],
"mac-address": "9e:5f:1d:cc:5f:c6",
"name": "ens18"
},
I can output the LXC IP by changing the compose in my Proxmox file:
...
compose:
ansible_host: proxmox_ipconfig0.ip | default(proxmox_net0.ip) | ipaddr('address')
...
This now works for LXC’s but not for VM’s
...
"kafka": {
"ansible_host": "192.168.1.8",
"ansible_ssh_user": "root",
...
I have tried to use a if statement, but failed miserably 
In my head I need to do an if statement based on either the Group or proxmox_vmtype which will be either lxc or qemu
I have tried to put as much detail as I could, I couldn’t find anything online to answer this, so hopefully someone has a useful suggestion here 