September 25, 2026 DevOps & Administration, TrueNas Running a Lightweight GitLab CE Instance on TrueNAS I already use Forgejo as my primary Git service in the homelab. It runs on my PROD TrueNAS system, is lightweight, does everything I normally need from a Git forge and integrates nicely with Forgejo Actions. | more
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