Proxmox VE Start

Proxmox VE Start

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Start an LXC container on Proxmox VE

Issues a start command to an LXC container and waits for the Proxmox task to complete.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.proxmox.container.Start

Start a container by ID

yaml
id: start_container
namespace: company.team

tasks:
  - id: start
    type: io.kestra.plugin.proxmox.container.Start
    host: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_HOST') }}"
    username: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_USERNAME') }}"
    password: "{{ secret('PROXMOX_PASSWORD') }}"
    node: pve
    vmName: "300"
Properties

Proxmox host

Hostname or IP address of the Proxmox VE node (no scheme, no port).

Proxmox node name

Name of the cluster node that scopes all API calls (e.g. pve, node1).

Container name or ID

Container name (resolved at runtime) or integer VMID.

Password

Password for ticket-based authentication.

Reference (ref) of the pluginDefaults to apply to this task.

Default8006

API port

Defaults to 8006.

API token ID

Full token identifier in the form user@realm!tokenname (e.g. root@pam!mytoken). Use together with tokenSecret.

API token secret

The UUID secret associated with the token ID.

Username

PAM or PVE user in the form user@realm (e.g. root@pam). Required when using ticket-based auth.

Defaulttrue

Verify SSL

Validate the server TLS certificate. Defaults to true; set to false only for trusted networks with self-signed Proxmox certificates.