Fixing Proxmox Terraform Deletes with curl + jq

When I started automating my homelab using Terraform + Proxmox, everything worked great… until it didn’t. The Problem In a push-based deployment (via GitHub Actions), I hit a blocker: The Proxmox Terraform provider cannot delete a running VM/container. That means: Terraform tries to destroy a resource Proxmox rejects it Pipeline fails ❌ So the fix is simple in theory: ✅ Check if the VM is running → stop it → then delete it But Terraform doesn’t handle this natively — so I built a small workaround using curl and jq. What You Need Before anything, install: curl (for API calls) → https://curl.se/windows/ jq (for parsing JSON) → https://jqlang.org/download/ Proxmox API Access You’ll need a Proxmox API token. Docs: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Proxmox_VE_API#API_Tokens https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/api-viewer/index.html#/nodes/{node}/qemu/{vmid}/status/current Set your environment variables (Windows example): setx TF_VAR_proxmox_api_url "https://YOUR-IP:8006/api2/json" setx TF_VAR_proxmo