Following RKE2 Kubernetes distribution installation instructions in the last post, here I will show how to run simple nginx container.
OS used: Debian 12
Software used: RKE2 1.30.2, Helm 3.16.2, cert-manager 1.16.1
In homelab environment it's nice to have a host which can run containerized apps. For running containers on such host you can use Docker, Podman or Kubernetes. In this post I will show how to install RKE2 Kubernetes distribution.
OS used: Debian 12
Software used: RKE2 1.30.10
Virtual machine deployment in Proxmox can be achieved faster by creating virtual machine template with desired settings and then cloning this machine. This new virtual machine requires some changes after cloning so to speed-up this process Ansible can be used. Example how to do this will be shown in this article.
Software used: Proxmox 8, Debian 12 cloud image, Ansible 2.14.3
This post demonstrates how to quickly create and afterwards clone virtual machine in Proxmox using Debian cloud image. When not using cloud image, more time must be spent after cloning virtual machine: you need to recreate SSH keys (cloning virtual machine doesn't change host SSH keys and that can cause problems with SSH connection to VMs cloned from same template machine), create new user with SSH access, change partition size when you resize disk in Proxmox, set hostname. All of this can be easily achieved with Debian cloud image because it is using cloud-init and Proxmox has built in support for it. This instruction is for creating virtual machine from cloud image on Proxmox with ZFS filesystem.
Software used: Proxmox 8, Debian 12 cloud image
This article shows how to setup encrypted Proxmox hypervisor with remote decryption through SSH. It's useful if you want to protect your data and all virtual machines in case of physical theft of your homelab server. Keep in mind that in order to decrypt the system (for example after system reboot) you need to log in through SSH and enter decryption password.
OS used: Debian 12
Software used: Proxmox 8, KeePassXC 2.7.4
KeePassXC is a password manager to securely store passwords in encrypted database. KeePassXC also enables securing SSH keys by storing private keys within its encrypted database while only public keys are present on disk. With such setup in order to connect to remote host, KeePassXC database should be opened and keys will be loaded to ssh-agent. Then connection to remote host using SSH will be possible. After closing KeePassXC database keys will be removed from ssh-agent. In this post I will demonstrate how to achieve such setup.
OS used: Debian 12
Software used: KeePassXC 2.7.4