Homelab Episode 3: Proxmox

[@Andy-fd5fg]

A good overview of how the pieces of the jigsaw fit together

[@aaggmmxd]

Damn, I'm jealous, your Proxmox setup is amazing!

[@clabretro]

Thanks! You can set one up too! haha

[@NickBouwhuis]

To resize the disk you can click it in the Proxmox interface and then go to Disk Actions. There will be a resize disk option to do what you did in the terminal.

[@clabretro]

Thanks! I'll try that next time.

[@serene2620]

I love your videos man, great format, interesting & straight to it

[@clabretro]

thanks!

[@Karreth]

Nice setup. My homelab is based on a Windows Server 2016 install running on an old Dell Optiplex desktop system. I chucked two 8 TB drives in a Raid 1 config in it, and along an old laptop running Debian it's been happily providing for all my home lab needs for almost 8 years now. I've been homelabbing for almost 20 years at this point, but I guess my needs are relatively modest. The time is nigh for an upgrade, though.

[@clabretro]

Nice! My first "homelab" years ago was a Pentium III laptop missing its screen. Just left it running in a closet haha

[@bw6378]

Interesting to see proxmox. Im still a vnware guy but now that broadcom took over I think the end is near. lol Thanks for the video.

[@nickthorne8490]

Another great video man, loving your content

[@clabretro]

Thanks!

[@hotrodhunk7389]

21:00 my takeaway of kubernetes in a nut shell. After I seen Jeff gerling put his services on individual pis I decided that it really wasn't worth it. I've had services run for months without an issue... Until I decide to "improve" things 😂😂😂.

[@clabretro]

it works until it doesn't 😂

[@sachasmart7139]

If you're interested in looking at how to automate the provisioning of your vms look at Terraform (notice there was a comment below). But this should get you fairly far - I use it in my homelab setup right now. The only gotcha is if more than 1 vm on the same machine is spun at the same time, there is a conflict on the `.lock` files for (I think) package installations. resource "proxmox_vm_qemu" "" { name = "test-server-${count.index + 1}" count = 1 desc = "debian server" vmid = random_integer.test.result + count.index + 1 target_node = "" agent = 1 clone = "debian" cores = 2 sockets = 1 memory = balloon = cpu = "host" oncreate = true nameserver = "" onboot = false os_type = "cloud-init" ciuser = "" cipassword = "" sshkeys = file("") tags = "debian,test,dogma" network { model = "" bridge = "" } disk { storage = "" type = "" size = "30G" } }

[@clabretro]

Thanks! I'll give this a shot next time I spin up a VM.

[@elesjuan]

I’m a little late to this party, just recently ran across your channel. Man, if you haven’t already, you need to look into moving some of those full fat virtual machines to containers. LXC uses the bare metal host kernel and shares resources, so there virtually no overhead for containers. On my PVE node, I’m running two fat virtual machines and thirteen or so containers. Don’t remember why, but for some reason thought Home Assistant and my PiHole should be their own VMs instead of containers.

[@clabretro]

Yeeeeah I know. That's gonna be my next thing to play around with in Proxmox. That server would have no trouble at all hosting tons of them. I kinda like the flexibility and challenge of deploying them on my own VMs though, but it's total overkill.

[@BlakesBench]

Hey Clab I have a question I want to set up pfsense for a non working private network but I want to do it on proxmox I just got the pc butt I wan to share the private network with vms so would I need to have 2 single port 10mbs pie cards so one is for vms and 1 is for pfsense ?and I want to set up a windows server but I want to interface it locally and I have an extra monitor so what do I do

[@JF_ARVA]

I'm missing the part where docker starts running in Proxmox, I'm hoping to run Plex inside one to ease the update process of that software.

[@christopherjackson2157]

Any of the dreamcasts running netbsd?

[@clabretro]

I wish. did take them online with DreamPi though 😆

[@bradleystannard7875]

awesome videos dude! Keep these videos up! You should look at using terraform to create the vm's!

[@clabretro]

thanks! yeah I need to revisit terraform for the VM creation too, I wasn't as familiar with it back when I set all that up.

[@bradleystannard7875]

@@clabretro 100%, defo try it with a cloud-init enabled snapshot as you get alot more quality of life things included

[@sebcodes]

How do you publish your minecraft service, over cloudflare dns to your public wan ip or using the cloudflared tunnel over http?

[@clabretro]

So, I'm just using cloudflare dns to my public ip (via A and SRV records), which is NOT sufficient and not a good way to do this, because the IP can be discovered. In the past I had a reverse proxy running in on an EC2 VM which was sorta nice - I only had to expose the EC2 VM's IP and if something malicious happened I could just kill the VM. Been planning to explore cloudflare zero trust. What are your thoughts?

[@sebcodes]

@@clabretro i'm using cloudflared Zero Trust to public expose my applications. But i am unable to route a Minecraft Server through this tunnel

[@xanderplayz3446]

3:40 …which runs MineOS

[@bw6378]

Control VMs give me flashbacks to the whole Nutanix thing...ewwwwwwwwww. lol