OpenTofu – boasting over 3,900 vendors and over 23,600 modules – allows infrastructure to be securely built and managed on virtually any cloud platform. This article, co-authored by Adfinis System Engineer Samuel Hierholzer, demonstrates how to set up a test environment for the automation of virtual environments with Proxmox VE.
“The Terraform fork OpenTofu makes it possible to automate the deployment of infrastructure via code. Our workshop demonstrates how this works in practice using the open source tool, showing an easy way to set up a virtual environment with Proxmox VE. To do this, we will use triple-nested virtual machines as the foundation for setting up software-defined networking with Proxmox, Libvirt, and more.”
By following the practical guide in this article, you will set up your own Proxmox and Tofu playground using multi-layered virtualization. This will act as a baseline in which you can learn the basics of software-defined infrastructure, using the well-documented demo project that Adfinis set up alongside the article.
This article is a collaboration between tech journalist Markus Feilner and Adfinis System Engineer Samuel Hierholzer.