Re: [PATCH datacenter-manager/installer/proxmox/yew-comp v4 00/40] add auto-installer integration

["Lukas Wagner" <l.wagner@proxmox.com>]

On Thu Apr 30, 2026 at 2:46 PM CEST, Christoph Heiss wrote:
> This series adds integration with our automated installer [0] for all
> our products. With this, Proxmox Datacenter Manager can be used for
> serving answer files via HTTPS in an automated fashion.
>
> It provides three panels under the "Automated Installations" tab in the
> "Remotes" menu:
>
> - Automated Installations: List all past and currently ongoing
>   installations.
> - Prepared Answers: Enables users to do the whole CRUD cycle for
>   prepared answers, i.e. create new answers (from scratch or based on
>   existing ones), edit and delete.
> - Authentication Tokens: Simple token for the /answer endpoint. What
>   tokens can be used to obtain which answer can be set when editing a
>   prepared answer under the "Authentication" tab.
>
> When a new token was created, either through the dedicated panel or
> directly while creating a new prepared answer, the secret itself as well
> as the command line for preparing an installation ISO is shown in the
> UI.

This was already applied, but I'll leave feedback here nevertheless, I
tested the latest version from the current master branch.

Bugs:
- "Advanced" checkbox is not visible when creating a new prepared
  answer, only when editing an existing one

- When editing an existing Prepared Answer and when changing the
  Filesystem, the fields in the 'Advanced' section are not switched out
  (e.g. when going from ext4 to ZFS, one still sees the LVM fields
  instead of the ZFS specific ones) -> saving the filesystem change and
  reopening the dialog shows the correct fields, as an intermediate
  workaround

- The commandline shown after creating a Prepared Answer does not
  include the full API path necessary, only the base URL. Also seems to
  be missing the fingerprint.
  
- Seems like the "cards" do not really resize dynamically. Some columns
  could probably be also a bit narrower, e.g. "Product" in the
  "installations" card, or the "ID" column for the prepared
  installations.

UX:

- The panels have a hard time fitting smaller screens (e.g. 1440x900).
  Maybe we need to change the layout a bit (probably after the release,
  no need to rush this now IMO). 

- The 'Prepared Answer' wizard could already validate the "Default
  Answer" XOR Target Filters condition when pressing "Next", not only on
  final submit

- The 'check mark / x' columns for 'Prepared Answers > Default' and
  'Authentication Tokens > Enabled' should be centered. Also, in PVE and
  PBS we tend to use '-' when something is disabled, not 'x'

- For the 'Root Password' field, the empty text when editing an existing
  Answer is 'Keep current' -- usually we use 'Unchanged' here, I think.
  Just a tiny nitpick, but I thought I'd mention it nonetheless.

Potential followups:

- The "Prepared Answers" could use a Comment field

- Maybe as a future follow-up for 'Target Filters': Add a couple
  pre-defined filters that can be added easily (example: only match a
  certain product, e.g. PVE)