Since 1975, a HomeLab enthusiast. In IT 1970 →, 25y for Fortune 500 companies, rest as independent entrepreneur and senior consultant, IT and Management. Happily retired from IT 2011 and totally 2020.
Docker
Flatcar Container Linux is tailored for one task, to run Docker in a scalable way. Flatcar is a container optimized OS with a minimal OS image. It has an immutable filesystem and includes automatic atomic updates. The security is enterprise-grade and it's Open-source.
Proxmox
To add more info from the sensors and show that information (fan speed; drives, CPU and RAM temps) directly on the Summary Page. Remove the nag-screen that we do not like (because it forces us to do extra clicks). Or updating all the containers by a command or automatically using CRON scheduling.
Proxmox
I like ricing my Linux stuff. This post is about a team from "dabeastnet". It will replace the default Proxmox theme. It's a Solarized inspired Light & Dark CSS theme for the PVE web UI. And yes, it will automatically switch to dark mode whenever the PVE dark theme is loaded.
Build
ShredOS uses the nwipe is a program that will securely erase the entire contents of disks. It can wipe a single drive or multiple disks simultaneously. It can operate as both a command line tool without a GUI or with a ncurses GUI.
Basics
Beszel is a lightweight server monitoring platform that includes Proxmox and Docker statistics, historical data, and alert functions. It has a nice web interface, simple configuration, and is ready to use out of the box. It supports automatic backup, multi-user, OAuth authentication, and API access.
Proxmox
Using consumer grade SSD or NVMe may be a short time solution. This post is about what you can do to avoid early death of your system disk. I have always had stand-alone nodes alongside the cluster nodes. And I also have a mini PC with Proxmox for travelling purposes.
Proxmox
Copy-Paste with an easy console called Xterm.js for any VM the same way Proxmox VE console works.
Basics
Installing Pi-hole as a Docker container is easy and do serve you well.
Build
Proxmox Backup Server is flexible and can be installed on any device running Debian, a VM or a LXC. Here I show my TrueNAS VM setup, as my main production has moved to my new TrueNAS CE box. Having PBS on the NAS is making use of the large and fast SAS ZFS RAID 10 storage.
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Proxmox Backup Server is flexible and can be installed on any device running Debian, a VM or a LXC. Here I show my TrueNAS LXC setup, as my main production has moved to my new TrueNAS CE box. Having PBS on the NAS is making use of the large and fast SAS ZFS RAID 10 storage.
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Monitoring your drives. It's easy and quick to see the state of your drives in a GUI. There is a nice app called Scrutiny that will give you a Dashboard displaying disk health at a glance. Runs on TrueNAS, Unraid, Synology, pfSense, QNAP, RockStore and Windows. Implement on Docker or real rust.
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I have been asked about my design, and therefore – this post. The heavy lifting is by Ghost CRM. I then added some code for the TOC (Table of Content), Share on Social Media buttons, Copy to the Clipboard and some language based highlight color for the code segments, logo, background color ...