Depl0y: placing, building and importing VMs
For technicians who create and bring in guests with Depl0y: the cross-site VM list and the guest agent behind its IP column, placing a VM with the create wizard's node and storage information, how a cloud-image VM is really built (template 9000 + image id, SSH for the import, API for the clone and cloud-init), the fixes that changed cloud-init behaviour in 2.2.70 and 2.2.80, the documented template and cloud-init troubleshooting, and VM import from files or straight from ESXi and vCenter.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 55 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Depl0y · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Explain where the VM list's IP addresses come from and enable the QEMU guest agent when they are missing
- Choose a node and storage for a new VM from the wizard's load and storage information
- Describe which steps of a cloud-image deployment use SSH and which use the Proxmox API
- Troubleshoot a cloud-image VM that won't boot, stalls or rejects its credentials, taking the Depl0y version into account
- Plan and run a VM import from a file or from ESXi or vCenter
Course outline
- 1.Depl0y: placing, building and importing VMsVideo · 2 min
- 2.Find guests and place new onesLesson · 17 min
- 3.Cloud images, end to endLesson · 20 min
- 4.Import VMs from files, ESXi and vCenterLesson · 18 min
- 5.Depl0y: placing, building and importing VMs: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Final exam8 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Depl0y README (Proxmox web interface comparison, requirements, known limitations, upgrades and backups)
- Depl0y docs: Feature reference
- Depl0y: Cloud images complete guide (how it works, troubleshooting, FAQ)
- Depl0y: Cloud images quick start
- Depl0y docs: Quick start (endpoints, permissions, BMCs, optional setup, troubleshooting)
- Depl0y docs: Architecture and internals (background jobs, caching, state on disk, configuration, services)
- Depl0y CHANGELOG (release history; version-specific behaviour taught in these courses)
- Depl0y docs: Screenshot gallery (27 views with captions)
- Proxmox VE wiki: Qemu-guest-agent
- Proxmox VE wiki: Cloud-Init Support
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