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 title: Deploy VM on Proxmox with Terraform
-description: 
+description: Learn how to deploy a VM on Proxmox using Terraform and a cloud-init template, making your infrastructure reproducible and easy to manage.
 date: 2025-05-25
-draft: true
+draft: false
 tags:
   - terraform
   - proxmox
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ To use Terraform, you’ll need a provider, a plugin that lets Terraform interac
 - [**Telmate/proxmox**](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/Telmate/proxmox/latest): One of the original providers. It’s widely used but not very actively maintained. It’s simple to use, with plenty of documentation available online, but has limited features, with only 4 resources are available and no data sources: for example, I wasn’t able to retrieve node resource details.
 - [**bpg/proxmox**](https://registry.terraform.io/providers/bpg/proxmox/latest): A newer and more actively developed provider, apparently developed by a single guy, with cleaner syntax and much wider resources support. It was harder to setup but I found it mature enough to work with it.
 
-I chose the `bpg/proxmox` provider because it’s better maintained at the time of writing and I needed to retrieve nodes values, such as their hostname.
+I chose the `bpg/proxmox` provider because it’s better maintained at the time of writing and I needed to retrieve nodes values, such as their hostname, etc.
 
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 ## Prepare the Environment
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ Check out my previous article on [Proxmox - Create a Cloud-Init VM Template]({{<
 
 ### Install Terraform
 
-For the Terraform installation, I followed the [documentation](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli) to install it into my LXC container.
+For the Terraform installation into my LXC container, I followed the [documentation](https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/tutorials/aws-get-started/install-cli).
 
 ```bash
 # Ensure that your system is up to date and you have installed the `gnupg`, `software-properties-common`, and `curl` packages installed. You will use these packages to verify HashiCorp's GPG signature and install HashiCorp's Debian package repository.
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ pveum user add terraformer@pve --password <password>
 pveum aclmod / -user terraformer@pve -role TerraformUser
 ```
 
-4. **Create API token for the user `terraformer`**
+4. **Create API Token for the user `terraformer`**
 ```bash
 pveum user token add terraformer@pve terraform -expire 0 -privsep 0 -comment "Terraform token"
 ```
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ proxmox_endpoint  = <your Proxox endpoint>
 proxmox_api_token = <your Proxmox API token for the user terraformer>
 ```
 
-To improve readability, you can automatically formats your Terraform code `terraform fmt`, to follow standard style conventions, making it clean and consistent.
+> 💡 To improve readability, you can automatically formats your Terraform code `terraform fmt`, to follow standard style conventions, making it clean and consistent.
 
 ### Initialize your Workspace
 
@@ -659,11 +659,11 @@ vm_ip = "192.168.66.156"
 
 ✅ Done! We’ve successfully created our first VM on Proxmox using Terraform in just a few minutes.
 
-![Summary of the newly created VM on Proxmox](img/proxmox-terraform-new-vm.png)
+![Résumé de la nouvelle VM crée sur Proxmox](img/proxmox-terraform-new-vm.png)
 
 ### SSH Connection
 
-Cherry on the cake: Terraform gives us the IP address, and thanks to cloud-init, SSH is ready to go.
+🍒 Cherry on the cake: Terraform gives us the IP address, and thanks to cloud-init, SSH is ready to go.
 
 ```bash
 $ ssh 192.168.66.156
@@ -707,7 +707,7 @@ See "man sudo_root" for details.
 vez@zenith-vm:~$
 ```
 
-This works like a charm, wonderful. We can see that my user is already created, it has all sudo permissions and the system is up-to-date.
+✅ This works like a charm, wonderful. We can see that my user is already created, it has all sudo permissions and the system is up-to-date.
 
 ### Idempotency
 
@@ -735,11 +735,11 @@ vm_ip = "192.168.66.156"
 
 ✅ No change as expected! 
 
-### Remove your infrastructure
+### Remove your Infrastructure
 
 To remove a Terraform-managed infrastructure, simply run the command `terraform destroy`.
 
-Terraform will show you a detailed plan of everything it’s about to delete, and ask for confirmation before proceeding. Once confirmed, it removes all resources it previously created
+Terraform will show you a detailed plan of everything it’s about to delete, and ask for confirmation before proceeding. Once confirmed, it removes all resources it previously created.
 
 ```bash
 $ terraform destroy
@@ -961,7 +961,7 @@ proxmox_virtual_environment_file.cloud_config: Destruction complete after 0s
 Destroy complete! Resources: 2 destroyed.
 ```
 
-💣 **Boom**! The VM has been destroyed and we can redeploy another instance at will!
+💣 **Boom**! The VM has been destroyed and we can now redeploy another instance at will!
 
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 ## Conclusion