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by bleevht 11d ago
I wrote about Pangolin last year, when its clustering capability was a bit cumbersome. It still required a custom deployment engagement with Pangolin. Version 1.23 brings DNS and certificate management into Pangolin and publishes a two-node
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by bleevht 12d ago
A two-node Proxmox cluster can lose quorum if either of your hosts fail. This is true even if the server that is left is healthy and its workloads are still running. If Proxmox HA is involved, the HA watchdog service will do what is called
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by bleevht 13d ago
The new official TrueNAS storage plugin I think is going to lead to a broader change for Proxmox. When you combine this with Proxmox introducing 24/7 enterprise support, storage vendors now have a really good reason to build native int
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by bleevht 14d ago
I put this together as a weekend project list based on tools I have recently tested in my own home lab. It includes a few newcomers like Changerawr, which I have found useful once I worked around a migration bug. Also, along with Proxmox an
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by bleevht 15d ago
I put together a few steps I go through and checks I make before I start moving real workloads over to a new Proxmox host in the home lab. In the post we take a look at what I think are several important steps and areas, including hostname
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by bleevht 16d ago
TrueNAS has released an early-adopter Proxmox VE storage plugin! Pretty slick. It automates zvol provisioning, snapshots, resizing, migration, and deletion over iSCSI or NVMe/TCP. I looked at how it compares with NFS and manually manag
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by bleevht 17d ago
This is so cool! I’ve been testing Komodo as a Docker management platform, and found an MCP server that opens up letting an AI agent interact with my Docker environment in the home lab through Komodo. In this post I walk through how the set
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by bleevht 18d ago
I’ve been try to get more of my home lab behind Authentik and SSO lately, but that raised a question in my mind. What happens when the identity system is the thing that breaks? How do I get into the rest of my lab? This post looks at the di
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I Don't Trust a Home Lab Service Until It Passes These 7 Tests(virtualizationhowto.com)
2 points by bleevht 19d ago|2 comments
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by bleevht 19d ago
I’ve started out treating reliability in my home lab as something I need to test. This, like backups, is not something you just want to leave to assumptions. There are 7 checks I recommend making before I really depend on a service. These a
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by bleevht 20d ago
I have quite a lot of Docker Compose stacks spread across many different home lab hosts. I realized the difficult part was not rolling out containers. It was keeping them updated over time. I kept SSHing into individual servers, finding the
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by bleevht 21d ago
I put together a practical two-hour home lab maintenance task list focused on the things I tend to neglect when everything appears to be working: checking updates, verifying backups, cleaning storage, patching, rebooting long-running server
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by bleevht 22d ago
I stumbled onto a project called ANAS and spent some time looking at what it adds to Proxmox VE. The interesting part is that it runs directly on the Proxmox node. It also adds storage management inside the existing PVE web UI instead of ma
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by bleevht 24d ago
I found that a pair of VMs I thought I had that was redundant had quietly ended up on the same Proxmox host. The services were redundant at the application layer, but not at the physical failure-domain layer on my Proxmox hosts. I wrote up
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Keepalived Track Scripts for Application-Aware Failover(virtualizationhowto.com)
1 points by bleevht 28d ago|1 comments
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by bleevht 28d ago
I had always thought of Keepalived mainly as host-level failover with VRRP. While working on containerized DNS HA, I realized Keepalived track scripts can make failover decisions based on the application itself. This is pretty cool function
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Proxmox Just Removed One of Its Biggest Weaknesses(virtualizationhowto.com)
4 points by bleevht 29d ago|1 comments
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by bleevht 29d ago
Proxmox has just announced 24/7 vendor-direct enterprise support. Also, they are opening a new North American subsidiary. I wrote about why I think this matters beyond just longer support hours, especially for organizations that have b
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by bleevht 1mo ago
Very cool. Will check this one out as well. Do you use this in your homelab?
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Proxmox Decisions That Are Painful to Change Later(virtualizationhowto.com)
10 points by bleevht 1mo ago|1 comments
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by bleevht 1mo ago
I’ve been running Proxmox for quite some time in the home lab, and one thing I’ve learned is that some choices are easy to make on day one. However, they can get super painful to change once your home lab grows. I wrote up seven of the ones
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by bleevht 1mo ago
I’ve run GitLab and Gitea in the home lab. I then decided I wanted to see where Forgejo fits in. What stands out to me is how much it includes in terms of features while still feeling lightweight. It has Git hosting, Actions-based CI/C
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Forgejo Might Be the Easiest Self-Hosted Git Server I've Used(virtualizationhowto.com)
1 points by bleevht 1mo ago|5 comments