[pdm-devel] [PATCH proxmox/datacenter-manager 00/13] initial auto-installer integration

[Christoph Heiss]

On Thu Dec 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM CET, Lukas Wagner wrote:
> On Thu Dec 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM CET, Christoph Heiss wrote:
>> This series adds integration with our automated installer [0] for all our
>> products. With this, Proxmox Datacenter Manager can be used for serving
>> answer files via HTTP(S) in an automated fashion.
>>
>> It provides two new panels:
>>
>> - Automated Installations: List all past and currently ongoing
>>   installations.
>> - Prepared Answers: Enables users to do the whole CRUD cycle for
>>   prepared answers, i.e. create new answers (from scratch or based on
>>   existing ones), edit and delete.
>>
>> Permission-wise, everything is currently scoped on
>> /system/auto-installation.
>>
>> UI
>> ==
>>
>> Happy about feedback regarding the UI, especially the editing dialog! By
>> the nature of it, the auto-installer has a lot more options than the
>> standard GUI/TUI installer, and it's kind of hard to not fully cramp up
>> the UI while still providing all options.
>>
>> TOML API
>> ========
>>
>> The auto-installer (currently) only supports TOML as input format for
>> the answer, so we need to hack around a bit to serve TOML in the API.
>> This is done in patch #12, by implementing the api method
>> directly.
>>
>> Serving TOML from an endpoint under /api2/json/ obviously is rather
>> wrong, so I'm definitely open for suggestions.
>> We probably also don't want to implement `/api2/toml/` if I'd have to
>> guess (or would that be possible selectively, i.e. just for this one
>> endpoint?).
>>
>> Adding JSON support to proxmox-fetch-answer is on my list, but this
>> would still be needed if we want to keep compatibility with older ISOs.
>>
>
> Cool stuff, I didn't even know that somebody was working on this!
>
> Couldn't really try it out, I think there is some issue in the patches
> that you've posted. I'm getting a 'unresolved import
> `proxmox_installer_types::answer::fetch::AnswerFetchResponse' error when
> trying to compile PDM. Checking the code in the installer-types crate, I
> also couldn't find a type like this - could you cross-check?

Thanks for the report, and sorry!

Yeah, definitely a mistake on my end - some leftover "gunk" from an
earlier iteration I had still lying around (for later usage with the
wait-mechanism). I'll send a v2 shortly!

>
> Thanks!