A history of my journey and trench talk from day’s past.
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Your choice between Proxmox and XCP-ng will depend on your specifics and priorities, including performance, user-friendliness, and your infrastructure. Both offer a wide range of similar features. Xen Orchestra in a Proxmox VM with QGA and HTTPS or in Docker. Moving from VMware to XCP to Proxmox.
Basics
Booting devices from the net by PXE is a good way to start diskless devices or provisioning new devices. A new tool is presented iVentoy. Or do it the traditional way with DNSMASQ or DHCP by TFTP. #pxe #iventou #netboot #proxydhcp
history
AI is here to stay. We can't turn the clock back. How it will be is up to us - cuber punk or utopia
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We need something to run VM's or LDC's on. You could start with running VM's on your daily driver with Qemu/KVM or even VirtalBox. Then migrate to a dedicated HomeLab: a old PC, a Raspberry PI, a decommissioned server or DIY something - the choice is yours. Or get some NUC's or Raspberry PI's.
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Virtualization is a good friend and your worst enemy ... Applications in the lab are Docker, Docker-Compose and Portainer. On that base anything is possibe.