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Ansible is one of my favorite things to use in my home lab for automating the tasks I dislike, and it's perfect for Proxmox updates with the community.proxmox.proxmox_pct_remote collection module installed. Once that's available, we can create a playbook that creates a dynamic inventory of your Proxmox LXCs and other containers, so that you can call them in other Ansible playbooks: Then we create a playbook like this, that will update Debian/Ubuntu LXCs. If you have other LXC bases, you can adjust accordingly for the package manager, and for the Proxmox tag group that you mihght have them sepa
LXC updates in Proxmox aren't hard — managing 20 of them at scale is another story… I’ve also configured Proxmox to send essential alerts to my self-hosted Gotify instance, while the SSO server Authentik keeps the Proxmox VE nodes containing my important virtual guests safe from unauthorized access. Proxmox Datacenter Manager See at Proxmox
… When Proxmox pulls an OCI image, it uses that image as the basis for an LXC container . It isn’t launching the image through Docker Engine, and there isn’t a Docker container tucked away behind the Proxmox interface. The image becomes the root filesystem for a normal Proxmox-managed container. …
… The no-subscription replacement belongs in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/proxmox.sources , pointing at download.proxmox.com/debian/pve with a suite of trixie and a component of pve-no-subscription , signed by the keyring at /usr/share/keyrings/proxmox-archive-keyring.gpg . …
… Bare-metal installs are great for a single app or two, but once you're ready to leap, Proxmox will run well so long as you have a decent enough CPU and RAM. Proxmox Proxmox is an open-source platform built on Debian Linux designed for server virtualization. See at Proxmox
… Once that's available, we can create a playbook that creates a dynamic inventory of your Proxmox LXCs and other containers, so that you can call them in other Ansible playbooks: ~/ansible/inventory/proxmox.yml plugin: community.proxmox.proxmox url: "http://192.168.2.3:8006" Proxmox host replace wit… …
… Speaking of PBS… Connect the PVE node to Proxmox Backup Server PBS is significantly better than the vzdump functionality on Proxmox Although most newcomers tend to rely on the vzdump backups built into Proxmox during their early days, I recommend switching to a dedicated PBS node as soon as you can. …
… Proxmox lacks the end-user polish that other NAS operating systems have It's as close to a blank canvas as it gets Now, Proxmox is about as far away as it gets from being a plug-and-play home server OS. Proxmox has no file sharing at all. …
… Related Proxmox on microSD cards is technically possible, but terrible transfer speeds aren't the only problem MicroSD cards can boot Proxmox, but their low endurance and slow speeds will punish you for trying Proxmox 9 adds so many new features The best home lab hypervisor now has even more goodne… …
… Building a Proxmox Backup Server pipeline wasn’t all that expensive, either But if PBS isn’t feasible, you can always go back to Proxmox’s vzdump backups Just like Proxmox Virtual Environment, PBS doesn’t require state-of-the-art hardware to run. …
… Proxmox 9.2 is a game-changer for clustered setups If you’ve got a single Proxmox workstation, PVE 9.2 might not sound all that tempting. After all, the update mostly concerns cluster setups, as opposed to the OCI support and vTPM snapshot functionality added in Proxmox 9.1 . …