diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5c199eb..f7275bb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-# ---> Ansible
-*.retry
-
+venv/
diff --git a/init.sh b/init.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..64bb4a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+
+# initialize venv
+python3 -m venv venv
+. ./venv/bin/activate
+
+pip install -r requirements.txt
+
+ansible-galaxy collection install -r requirements.yml
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..623ced9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+proxmoxer
+requests
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.yml b/requirements.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f1a149d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+---
+collections:
+  - name: community.proxmox
+    version: "1.6.0"