Proxmox: Easily manage Proxmox containers

Publication date: 2018-11-10

Issue: I don't want to operate an ssh server on each container

I've been using containers on Linux for years (OpenVZ, Linux VServer). Later LXC with ProxmoxVE as convenient and powerful management wrapper became my containerization solution of choice. As configuration management solution, I selected Saltstack instead of Chef, Puppet, and Ansible for various reasons. To manage Proxmox LXC containers with Salt, one either needs to install a Salt Minion in each container or alternatively install an ssh daemon in each container to be able to manage them using Salt SSH. Both solutions are neither elegant from resource consumption nor from complexity point of view. I wanted to manage my Proxmox LXC containers with Salt more easily.

Solution: The idea is to manage the containers using Salt SSH with the host's ssh daemon as the entry point.

Details can be found on my main web site: PVEShell on Dirk's main web site