🏗 Terraform Meets Proxmox: Lessons from a VMware Migration

I’ve learned some lessons from VMware->Proxmox migration & wrote the article.

1️⃣ The interesting part was not the hypervisor itself, but making the existing IaC workflow work with it
2️⃣ Hypervisor migration also means IaC migration
3️⃣ Packer + Terraform + Ansible can be reused almost without changes
4️⃣ There are many pitfalls in terraform for proxmox
5️⃣ Failed Terraform runs can leave LVM leftovers and stale state
6️⃣ Stateless VMs make migration much easier
7️⃣ Keep the same interface for VMware and Proxmox makes migration easier
8️⃣ Storage is the most painful topic

🤔 moving VMs is easy. Rebuilding the whole automation workflow around a new hypervisor is the real work.

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