August 28, 2026 DevOps & Administration Installing an Old Dell B1165nfw Printer Driver on Ubuntu 26.04 After moving my workstation to Ubuntu 26.04, I ran into a small problem with my old Dell B1165nfw Mono MFP. Ubuntu automatically discovered the network printer without any issue. | more
August 24, 2026 DevOps & Administration Using VS Code and Git CLI with Forgejo on Ubuntu After moving more of my daily work to an Ubuntu workstation, one of the smaller questions was "how do I want to manage my Git repositories" On Windows I used GitHub Desktop quite often. | more
August 13, 2026 DevOps & Administration, Proxmox Automating Bare-Metal Proxmox Installation with PXE and iPXE When building my three-node Proxmox cluster based on HP EliteDesk mini PCs, I wanted more than just an automated installation process. One of my main goals was to get hands-on experience with PXE booting and understand how bare-metal provisioning works in practice. | more
August 6, 2026 Proxmox Backing Up and Migrating Proxmox VMs and LXCs to NFS After building my new three-node Proxmox cluster, I needed a practical way to protect the virtual machines and LXC containers stored on each node’s local LVM-Thin storage. | more
August 5, 2026 Proxmox Migrating an Existing Proxmox Host into a New Three-Node Cluster For a long time, my Proxmox environment consisted of a single Dell Precision Tower hosting my virtual machines and LXC containers. That setup worked well, but it was limited and power consumption was a killer. | more
June 28, 2026 Proxmox, TrueNas TrueNAS NFS on Proxmox — Mounting a Share and Passing it into LXC Containers I recently wanted to make storage from my TrueNAS SCALE system available to several Proxmox LXC containers. The basic idea sounds straightforward: TrueNAS ↓ NFS Proxmox host ↓ One or more LXC containers Naturally, the first attempt ended with a permission error. | more
June 17, 2026 DevOps & Administration, Proxmox Building a GitOps-Style Kubernetes Homelab on Proxmox For my new Role as DevOps Engineer, i was spending hours on video training ( Udemy, LinkedIn, YT .. ) . Even thought there is good material out there - and i want to explicit name Nana's Tech World - it is sometime cumbersome, slow paced, not on the spot. | more
June 12, 2026 DevOps & Administration vi settings for YAML files When editing YAML files for Kubernetes, Ansible, Docker Compose or CI/CD workflows, indentation mistakes are one of the easiest ways to break a configuration. | more
June 5, 2026 DevOps & Administration, Proxmox The Proxmox Update Checklist I Use in My Homelab I like Proxmox because it is reliably straightforward in the best possible way. It runs my VMs, LXCs, and test environments without making itself the center of attention. | more
June 1, 2026 TrueNas Self-Hosted Apps I Run in June 2026 Self-hosting is one of those hobbies where you start with one small service and suddenly you have dashboards, reverse proxies, monitoring, media libraries, Git hosting, document management and at least three tools that tell you which other tools are currently broken. | more