Setting up on fresh Proxmox cluster/server

Pre-requisites

• Proxmox cluster or at least one server/node
• Ability to SSH to Proxmox server with root user, or
• Internet access on Proxmox server

Create templates

First create template VMs using Bash script:

• use scp to copy create-prox-template.sh file to host
• SSH to proxmox node and cd to location of uploaded script as per above
• run script

Create First VM

• use scp to transfer create-prox-vm.sh file to host
• SSH to proxmox node and cd to location of uploaded script as per above
• run script to create the first VM

SSH to new VM and configure it as Gitlab Runner

• script:
  • install: libguestfs-tools and ansible
  • install Gitlab Runner
  • join Gitlab Runner to your Gitlab instance (public free tier works as well)
  • and enable it as shared runner for all your projects