Automate libvirt Virtual Machine Provisioning with Ansible

marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Info

This is part 2 of this post.

Let’s automate the process what is discussed in part 1 using ansible. This ansible playbook can also loop multiple VM to create.

Environment

Docker/Podman

I’ve dockerized ansible - tailored to the specific task. Check Dockerfile if you want to run it locally.

First clone the repo.

1git clone https://github.com/mcbtaguiad/libvirt-cloudinit-ansible.git

Build the package or just pull the image from gihub registry.

Boot Cloud Images with Qemu Libvirt

marktaguiad@marktaguiad.dev (Mark Taguiad) — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Before I setup my proxmox sever, I am using this workflow. Slow and unproductive but it works. Every process here can be automated with proxmox and terraform, if you are interested check my previous post (kausap ko lang sarili ko dito).

Prerequisite

libvirtd is running and can run VM.
cloud-utils is installed

Verify if you can run qemu-img, virsh and cloud-locald.

Virsh on marktaguiad.dev