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If you needs are simple, write a simple playbook using the proxmox ansible module https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/proxmox_kvm_module.html
Terraform/Opentofu provides more advanced stuff but then you have to worry about persistent state storage, the clunky DSL... used it when acsolutely needed, you can do 90% of this stuff with the proxmox ansible module.
If you need to make your playbook less verbose, move the logic to a role so that you can configure your VMs from a few lines in the playbook/host_vars. Mine looks like this (it's for libvirt and not proxmox, but the logic is the same)