Ansible is a very powerful tool and should be in the toolbelt of any Site Reliability or DevOps Engineer. It leverages SSH and does not need any server-side software to run, except python.
I am using Ansible not only to provision virtual machines (VMs) once they are ready and have an SSH connection, but even to provision VMs and templates in the first place.
The following ansible tasks are part of an internal Proxmox collection, that may be published in the not so far future, once it is more polished. ...