Make VMs dynamic with for_each map — spin up/down any number by name

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

proxmox/terraform.tfvars.example

@@ -1,12 +1,14 @@
-# Copy this to terraform.tfvars and fill in your values
+# Copy to terraform.tfvars and fill in your values
 # terraform.tfvars is gitignored
 
-proxmox_api_token    = "terraform@pve!terraform=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
+proxmox_api_token    = "root@pam!terraform=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx"
 ssh_private_key_path = "~/.ssh/id_ecdsa"
 ssh_public_key       = "ecdsa-sha2-nistp256 AAAA... luddie@shadowfax"
 
-vm_name      = "debian-vm"
+# Add/remove entries to create/destroy VMs. Key = hostname.
-vm_id        = 100
+# All fields are optional — defaults: cores=2, memory=2048, disk_size=20
-vm_cores     = 2
+vms = {
-vm_memory    = 2048
+  "web-1" = {}
-vm_disk_size = 20
+  "web-2" = {}
+  "db-1"  = { cores = 4, memory = 4096, disk_size = 40 }
+}

proxmox/variables.tf

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 variable "proxmox_api_token" {
-  description = "Proxmox API token in the format user@realm!token_name=secret"
+  description = "Proxmox API token — format: user@realm!token_name=secret"
   type        = string
   sensitive   = true
 }
@@ -11,35 +11,16 @@ variable "ssh_private_key_path" {
 }
 
 variable "ssh_public_key" {
-  description = "SSH public key to inject into created VMs"
+  description = "SSH public key injected into created VMs"
   type        = string
 }
 
-variable "vm_name" {
+variable "vms" {
-  description = "Name of the VM to create"
+  description = "Map of VMs to create. Key becomes the VM hostname."
-  type        = string
+  type = map(object({
-  default     = "debian-vm"
+    cores     = optional(number, 2)
-}
+    memory    = optional(number, 2048)
-
+    disk_size = optional(number, 20)
-variable "vm_id" {
+  }))
-  description = "Proxmox VM ID (100-999 for regular VMs)"
+  default = {}
-  type        = number
-  default     = 100
-}
-
-variable "vm_cores" {
-  type    = number
-  default = 2
-}
-
-variable "vm_memory" {
-  description = "Memory in MiB"
-  type        = number
-  default     = 2048
-}
-
-variable "vm_disk_size" {
-  description = "Disk size in GiB"
-  type        = number
-  default     = 20
 }

proxmox/vm.tf

@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 resource "proxmox_virtual_environment_vm" "vm" {
-  name      = var.vm_name
+  for_each = var.vms
+
+  name      = each.key
   node_name = "proxmox"
-  vm_id     = var.vm_id
+  # vm_id omitted — Proxmox auto-assigns the next available ID
 
   clone {
     vm_id = 9001 # debian-12-cloud template
@@ -13,12 +15,12 @@ resource "proxmox_virtual_environment_vm" "vm" {
   }
 
   cpu {
-    cores = var.vm_cores
+    cores = each.value.cores
     type  = "x86-64-v2-AES"
   }
 
   memory {
-    dedicated = var.vm_memory
+    dedicated = each.value.memory
   }
 
   scsi_hardware = "virtio-scsi-single"
@@ -26,7 +28,7 @@ resource "proxmox_virtual_environment_vm" "vm" {
   disk {
     datastore_id = "local-lvm"
     interface    = "scsi0"
-    size         = var.vm_disk_size
+    size         = each.value.disk_size
     discard      = "on"
     iothread     = true
   }
@@ -62,6 +64,9 @@ resource "proxmox_virtual_environment_vm" "vm" {
   }
 }
 
-output "vm_ipv4_address" {
+output "vm_ip_addresses" {
-  value = proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.vm.ipv4_addresses
+  value = {
+    for name, vm in proxmox_virtual_environment_vm.vm :
+    name => [for ip in flatten(vm.ipv4_addresses) : ip if ip != "127.0.0.1"]
+  }
 }