HomeLab 107: 🚀 How to Create an UbuntuTemplate in Proxmox Kubernetes ☸️ VM Cloning

In this video, I walk you through the step-by-step process of creating a reusable Ubuntu 22.04 cloud-init template in Proxmox VE 8—perfect for rapidly deploying Kubernetes clusters at home or in lab environments.

📌 What you'll learn:

– Intro
– Accessing Proxmox VE from your browser
– Creating a new VM template in Proxmox
– Adding cloud-init drive
– Generating SSH key with ssh-keygen
– Setting DHCP & default password
– Downloading Ubuntu 22.04 cloud image
– Renaming to QCOW2 format
– Resizing the image to 40GB
– Importing disk to Proxmox
– Configuring boot order & enabling serial console
– Converting VM to template
– Cloning new Kubernetes node from template
– Summary & Next Steps

💡 Why this is useful:

Creating a pre-configured Ubuntu cloud image template saves massive time when building out clusters. This setup is cloud-init ready, perfect for Kubernetes master/worker nodes, and makes VM cloning fast and efficient.

🛠 Tools Used:

Proxmox VE 8
Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish Cloud Image
MobaXterm (for SSH and Terminal)
Cloud-Init
QEMU tools (qemu-img)

🔗 Download Ubuntu Cloud Image:
https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/relea...

🔐 SSH Keygen Command:
ssh-keygen

🔧 Resize Image:
qemu-img resize jammy-server-cloudimg-amd64.qcow2 40G

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