Proxmox API Quick Start

Getting Started with Proxmox PVE APIs

The video is part of a Proxmox PVE Nested Virtualization home lab series, where we will be building out a lab environment to test Proxmox no subscription features and functionality.

Since Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, many customers are looking elsewhere for their virtualisation requirements - this video shows what you need to do to use the Proxmox REST API.

In this video, we run through the following with the API.

We look at:
Setting up a user with API access.
Using Postman to get an access ticket from Proxmox.
Using Postman to access the API using the access ticket and session cookie and get the Proxmox cluster version.
Using PowerShell to get an access ticket.
Using PowerShell to access the API using the access ticket and session cookie.
Doing something practical with the API - getting and controlling a VM run status.

Note - it isn't mentioned in the video, but Postman should be set to disable SSL certificate verification.

Other useful links:

[deathpie]

Please keep making videos I think your channel will grow, I love proxmox I am newer to it even things I'm familiar with I still watch your video, I'm going to like all of your vids and try to get the algorithm going come on people push the like 👍

[Lunolux]

nice video,
that give me some idea for a electronic projet, interface with button for specific action
thx

[oneil]

Would you also make a video in which you use the Proxmox API key and the secret, because the ticket expires after 2 hours and I don't want to renew it permanently and haven't yet managed to build a working query with it in Hoppscotch (Postman alternative).