First off, apologies for the delay in publishing Part 2 — things got quite busy at work. I also wanted to make sure this part delivers a clear and practical solution that anyone can easily adapt to their own environment with minimal adjustments. In Part 1, I described how to efficiently

Note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series. In this post, we'll focus on the manual approach of downloading and preparing a cloud-init-enabled Ubuntu image in Proxmox that can be used as a base template for cloning. In Part 2, we’ll dive into using OpenTofu to