Inveterate

An open-source Proxmox provisioning engine for VPS & game-server hosts. Inveterate is a Django app that turns a Proxmox cluster into a REST API: spin up KVM/LXC instances from cloud-init, hand customers a browser console, meter their bandwidth, and manage IPs and NAT port-forwarding — all in ~15 seconds per deploy.

Try it in 60 seconds

No Proxmox required to look around — docker compose up boots the full stack (Postgres + Redis + Django + Celery) and seeds a demo catalog of plans, OS templates, and app profiles:

git clone https://github.com/hosler/inveterate.git
cd inveterate
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --build

Then open:

URL	What
http://localhost:8000/api/v1/docs/	Swagger UI — every endpoint, try-it-out
http://localhost:8000/api/v1/plans/	Browsable API with the seeded catalog
http://localhost:8000/admin/	Django admin — log in with admin / admin

To actually provision VMs, point it at a Proxmox cluster (see Connecting Proxmox below).

Features

• VM/LXC Provisioning — automated cloud-init provisioning, cross-node cloning, resource management
• App Profiles — pre-configured cloud-init templates (Docker, Nginx, …) selectable at deploy time
• Browser Console — terminal in the browser via a WebSocket proxy to Proxmox VNC
• Networking — IP pool management, NAT port-forwarding via Nginx Proxy Manager, domain routing with SSL
• Inventory — automatic capacity calculation per plan/node (CPU, RAM, disk, IPs, bandwidth)
• Bandwidth Metering — per-service usage tracking with monthly renewal and overage suspension
• SSH Keys — deploy and update keys on running KVM services via cloud-init
• Multi-Cluster — manage multiple Proxmox clusters from one installation

Connecting Proxmox

Set the Proxmox variables in .env, then create the cluster record:

# .env
PROXMOX_HOST=pve.example.com
PROXMOX_USER=root@pam
PROXMOX_KEY=your-api-token-value

docker compose exec web python manage.py init_cluster

From there, add nodes, IP pools, and templates via the admin or API, then POST /api/v1/services/ to provision. See the Swagger docs for the full surface.

Use as a Django app

Inveterate is packaged as django-inveterate and can be embedded in an existing Django project instead of run standalone:

pip install django-inveterate

# settings.py
INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    "inveterate",
]

# urls.py
urlpatterns = [
    path("api/v1/", include("inveterate.urls")),
]

It requires Postgres, Redis, and a Celery worker. The optional extras pull in what each surface needs: django-inveterate[docs] (Swagger), [cors], [websocket] (browser console), or [all].

API Reference

Public (anonymous)

Endpoint	Method	Description
/plans/	GET	List available plans
/templates/	GET	List OS templates
/apps/	GET	List app profiles
/inventory/	GET	Available capacity per plan/node

Customer (authenticated)

Endpoint	Method	Description
/services/	GET/POST	List or create services
/services/{id}/	GET	Service detail
/services/{id}/{start,shutdown,stop,reboot,cancel}/	POST	Power / lifecycle actions
/services/{id}/status/	POST	Live VM status
/services/{id}/console/	GET	Console credentials
/services/{id}/ssh_keys/	POST	Update SSH keys
/portforwards/	GET/POST/DELETE	CRUD NAT port-forward rules
/domainroutes/	GET/POST/DELETE	CRUD domain routes
/tasks/{task_id}/	GET	Poll async task status

Admin

Full CRUD on clusters, nodes, node disks, IP pools, IPs, services, plans, templates, and app profiles. Full interactive reference at /api/v1/docs/.

Scheduled Tasks

Configure these periodic tasks via django-celery-beat (the beat service in the compose file runs the scheduler):

Task	Interval	Description
inveterate.tasks.meter_bandwidth	5–15 min	Track VM bandwidth usage
inveterate.tasks.calculate_inventory	1 hour	Update available capacity
inveterate.tasks.cleanup_console_users	Daily	Remove orphaned Proxmox console users
inveterate.tasks.cleanup_orphaned_ips	Daily	Release IPs from destroyed services

Production

The included Dockerfile runs Gunicorn (gevent worker) by default. Run the web, celery, and beat services behind a reverse proxy, set a real SECRET_KEY, a generated FIELD_ENCRYPTION_KEY, and DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=config.settings.production.

Built With

Django + Django REST Framework · Celery · proxmoxer · PostgreSQL · Redis

License

Inveterate is licensed under the GNU AGPLv3 (see LICENSE.txt). You can self-host it freely, including to run your own hosting business, as long as you comply with the AGPL's network-source-disclosure terms. A separate commercial license is available for proprietary / closed-source use — see COMMERCIAL.md.