2.5 Virtualization
State/Version: 20230829p1
2.5 Proxmox
- Proxmox Virtual Environment
- Compute, network, and storage in a single solution
2.5.0 Reference
2.5.1 Setup
2.5.1.1 Installation Process
- Create bootable Proxmox USB-Stick
- Install Proxmox on your Hardware
2.5.1.2 Web Console Overview
2.5.1.3 User Management
- The Homelab is currently running with local user accounts.
- The provisioning process prerequisites root account for container deployments.
2.5.1.4 Backups and Snapshots
- Proxmox runs daily backups.
- The backup destination is a Raspberry Pi running in a separate Storage Network.
2.5.1.5 DNS
- This lab runs it’s own name servers.
- They will be installed and configuered via Ansible Semaphore. No manual Changes!
2.5.1.6 Provisioning
- How to create container templates
- This procedure was used to provision the Kubernetes HA-Cluster.
2.5.1.7 Subscription
- I’m using the community version of Proxmox.
- For PVE and Ceph the “no-subscription repositories” are enabled.
2.5.2 Maintenance
- manual patching schedule: weekly-monday
- Can be automated easily by switching to Ansible (Semaphore).
- Triggered manually untill December 2023 to get more experience with it.