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
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 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
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
May 5, 2026 DevOps & Administration, TrueNas Self-Hosted Forgejo Runner for Git and CI/CD Forgejo is a community fork of Gitea, created as a more independent home for self-hosted Git. A key reason to choose it over Gitea is its stronger community governance and focus on open development. | 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
March 25, 2026 TrueNas Readeck: Install Custom App + Logo via YAML While the current App catalogue has a lot to offer but you may end up with a deprecated project ( think booklore ) or an app wich has been requested but not yet implemented ( eg. | more
February 26, 2026 TrueNas Dockpeek vs Dozzle on TrueNAS SCALE TrueNAS provides a great Apps UI, but it’s not ideal for: quickly scanning all containers tailing logs across multiple services spotting which ports map to which services lightweight troubleshooting without SSH When it comes to debugging on why an App wouldn't deploy / crash on TrueNas, you'll need some handy tools instead of using the TrueNAS UI which is often cumbersome. | more
February 2, 2026 TrueNas Bichon – A lightweight Email Archiver Email maintenance can be a real "pain in the bane" - every time my wife logs in, her email provider warns that the mailbox is full and needs cleaning. | more