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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
Different technologies are for different approaches and applications. It's relatively trivial to use the pve command line utility to create or modify vms in proxmox. Still, the originating reason of this post is due to a large number of useful scripts to help make things more manageable and maintainable, and the founder of it having to step away, and there being gratitude for their help to make things much more manag…
> Still, the originating reason of this post is due to a large number of useful scripts to help make things more manageable and maintainable Also makes it very quick to try out an application, arguably less time than even docker.
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#44A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually... What's the virtualization technology on proxmox? What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?
proxmox is using KVM for virtualization and Linux Containers (LXC) for the containers. I agree that something like terraform and/or ansible would make more sense for an IAC (infrastructure as code) deployment. Most of the people I talk to that use proxmox for a homelab prefer to do things manually and don't bother with any IAC implementation. For work I'm a firm believer in reproducible environments and IAC. We actua…
Given enough appetite and love from me, I've got a pretty robust Ansible script for building a Proxmox host with $i++ LxC's.
It's not suitable for open sourcing yet (embedded secrets and the like), but if the community wants it, it's pretty solid.
Only issue I see is the Ansible script currently always expects to be building a cluster of Proxmox hosts. I'd need to make some change to customise it so it can build out just one node though.
I've been using it or ~3 years now for my Proxmox cluster home lab which predominantly hosts LLAMA, *Arr stack, deluge, Nginx, Tailscale and a few other services.
It's not quite a one click deployment, but it can build our an entire cluster in 30 minutes after an initial Proxmox install is completed.
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#45I have been looking into setting up my first Proxmox box, here is my take as a newcomer. I wanted to do what I think is a very basic and very common setup: Modem > proxmox box > OPNsense VM > physical wifi router via onboard 10Gb NIC + internal network VMs like OMV etc. The goal is to add a full network filter via OPNsense, and allow access to a media sever and backup etc from the internal network. I see no OPNsense,…
> I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other I'm confused by what you mean here? Don't they just use the network like any other computer? I haven't had to do any special configuration to get my VMs to talk to each other.
I am not perfectly informed, but in my case, OPNsense would need to be the only vm with access to the incoming NIC port, and all other VMs and the router would need to use virtual network interfaces only coming from OPNsense for incoming. The router would be the only device with direct access to the outgoing NIC port. None of that seemed incredibly difficult looking into it, but still, it was the type of recipe I was expecting when I saw "Proxmox scripts".
And of course this means that the Proxmox box as a whole should have similar hardening to a typical web server, with minor tweaks to allow residential traffic on various other standard ports. So that hardening would probably be another script I would like to see (I don't know what all the proxmox scripts in the first section do).
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#46A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually... What's the virtualization technology on proxmox? What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?
Proxmox is more about the management of the hosts and resources on them, including the live migration of VMs between hosts, support for some types of HA and failover.
You can likely manage the configuration of the VMs themselves through terraform or similar in combination with Proxmox if that's your desire.
Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
#47A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually... What's the virtualization technology on proxmox? What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?
proxmox is using KVM for virtualization and Linux Containers (LXC) for the containers. I agree that something like terraform and/or ansible would make more sense for an IAC (infrastructure as code) deployment. Most of the people I talk to that use proxmox for a homelab prefer to do things manually and don't bother with any IAC implementation. For work I'm a firm believer in reproducible environments and IAC. We actua…
Why is something like Proxmox a bad target for IAC?
Re: Show HN: Proxmox VE Helper Scripts
#48I have been looking into setting up my first Proxmox box, here is my take as a newcomer. I wanted to do what I think is a very basic and very common setup: Modem > proxmox box > OPNsense VM > physical wifi router via onboard 10Gb NIC + internal network VMs like OMV etc. The goal is to add a full network filter via OPNsense, and allow access to a media sever and backup etc from the internal network. I see no OPNsense,…
I run proxmox and have set up VLANs.
The router port to the proxmox machine is set up for tagged packets that isolate incoming/outgoing traffic.
After that my VMs and Containers are easily set up to "live" on one or more networks.
For me the firewall rules on the router determine what traffic can be relayed between vlans through the router.
I'm pretty sure you could set up opnsense running in a container or vm to do the same thing, selectively passing traffic from one vlan to another.
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#49Tangential question - what are people using their homelab for / what are some interesting or useful projects you've spun up on them? I've been thinking about setting one up but not 100% sure I'd find use out of it :)
At the risk of leaking info to any toes I step on w.r.t my home environment,
- home assistant - Network Video Recorder - Jellyfin - network management such as ubiquiti or omada etc - vault warden/1pass/other secrets servers - tailscale or wire guard server - build server/k8s test environment - private artifactory or mirror (especially useful if you're using the same distro on a bunch of devices but don't want to overload the actual mirror+improves download times) - torrents (someone's gotta seed Wikipedia) - onsite backups - bastion into your home network (see also: wire guard) - some people even use it for their router
You could also take a look at the tteck scripts, there's a bunch of cool stuff in there
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oh wow, this is truely sad news. I only recently went down the homelab/selfhosted path and the majority of my containers were setup using tteck's scripts.
> Oh wow, this is truely sad news. Incredibly sad. It’s a real testament to tteck that he took the time to transition the project, and make his wishes known how he wanted us to proceed. Tteck is a legend.
"Tteck is a legend."
When the shit has really hit the fan personally and yet you still worry about other people: that is the mark of a decent person.
Legend, indeed.