Proxmox New - Install

How to Install and Configure the Proxmox Virtual Environment (PVE).

Proxmox New Install – Firewall

Security is very important, especially for home labs, we don't have the 24/7 IT-Security Staff to handle things. Several large attacks have recently been utilizing stolen credentials from home users. Yes, home labs are low-hanging fruit for hackers and especially wannabees.

Proxmox New Install – Network

How-to configure networking on a Proxmox host. Using VLAN for segregation, bonding for fault tolerance and some other advanced things.

Proxmox New Install - SSH

As SSH is our mostly used tool, we need to make it safe.

Resizing the LVM

LVM is quite complicated and need much knowledge to administer. This is just a quick glimpse into that.

Proxmox Install – Set up ACME

An SSL certificate displays important information for verifying the owner of a website and encrypting web traffic with SSL/TLS, including the public key, the issuer of the certificate, and the associated subdomains. HTTPS relies on certs.

Admin users in Proxmox

We do not want to use root for everything, actually we can't allow it. We need admin groups and administration accounts. Furthermore, we need to segregate and use other users and groups with lesser privileges on our cluster and servers.

Stop Brute Force Attacks

It's common practice to harden any server beyond the typical 60-70% state they are at end of installation. Fail2ban is one of the tools. As all a home lab is a prime target, we need to take extra steps to secure the servers we have, exposed and not exposed ones alike.

Remove a Node

Sometimes we need to remove nodes from our Proxmox cluster. It's easy, but doing it wrong it will be hard. Some servers get tiered or outdated, and we want to install a new one, or we need that machine in another cluster.

Talos on Proxmox

Running a Kubernetes cluster using Talos on Proxmox. Small, efficient and safe by design. Adding my new favorite to my cluster to replace my K8s and K3s clusters. I will still keep the K0s cluster I have.

Testing with Talos Linux

Create a Kubernetes cluster to run in local docker/podman using Talos Linux. This is a quick way of testing tings before going for a full production install.

The Talos Distro

Talos is a unique Linux for distributed systems, designed for Kubernetes. Designed to be as minimal as possible while still maintaining practicality. It's built to run distributed and is immutable and minimal. In having less, Talos offers more: Security, Efficiency, Resiliency, Consistency.