Ricing
Make BASH nicer, make it shine.
As I as many of you spend most of my time in a terminal, why not make it shine a little. As everyone know, ZSH is easy to rice, but you can almost as easy rice your BASH shell.
MyNewLab
After moving to an apartment, I downsize from 14 servers, many Enterprise grade machines. To VPS, NUC, mini and SFF machines. I will create a series of posts how I create my new lab. As I need to do a lot of travelling this year, this will take a long time to get ready. This is my story #proxmox #zfs #docker #vlan #samba #pve #pbs
Proxmox
Proxmox IP2tag – tag by IP
This script automatically assigns tags containing IP addresses to virtual machines and containers running in a Proxmox environment. It is an alternative to lxc-iptags but is more extensive and flexible in many ways.
MyNewLab
More New Themes for Proxmox
You can make a new theme for Proxmox, and many have done so. The oldest came to PVE 6. The most feamose was "PVE Discord Dark", now we have some newer themes: Nord PVE, Solar PVE and new forks of PVE Discord Dark.
Docker
Windows Subsystem for Linux
There are some instances when you need a Windows instance, but you don't need a full VM to do it. You can use a Docker Container for Windows XP – Windows 11 or one of the Windows Severs. Yes, this is possible, and it's a usable system.
Docker
Docker+Dockge, Ubuntu 24.04
This post is about installing Docker on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. We also utilize the Dockge instead of Portainer. Dockge has some unique features and is well suited for use in a home lab. Portainer can do more, but Dockge is fine for now
MyNewLab
Omarchy - Arch and Hyprland
Omarchy is a modern, high efficient development system using a tiling window manager. It's using Arch Linux, Wayland and the Hyprland window manager. Install it all by running a single command. Omarchy is an opinionated take on what Linux can be at its best.
Networking
Renaming your NICs
Due to the new kernel recognizing more features of some hardware, like for example virtual functions, and interface naming often derives from the PCI(e) address, some NIC may change their name, in which case the network configuration needs to be adapted.
Docker
The secure and efficient 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
Modding the GUI
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
New Theme for PVE
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 – Disk Eraser
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
Server Monitoring with Beszel
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.