August 6, 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 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
May 13, 2026 Proxmox Proxmox LXC Containers: Tiny Linux Servers Without the VM Weight I use Proxmox mainly because it gives me a very nice playground for VMs, containers, storage tests and the occasional “why is this not booting anymore?” evening session. | more
March 31, 2026 Proxmox How to Create a Proxmox API Token for Homepage I am currently working on my homepage dashboard and want to pull in my Proxmox stats. My approach is to create a dedicated API user and token instead of using my main login. | more
December 2, 2025 DevOps & Administration, Proxmox Unattended Windows 11 install on Proxmox using Ansible I recently transitioned from VMware ESXi and built a new server for a fresh Proxmox setup. I had no prior experience with Proxmox, but how complicated could a simple Windows installation be? | more