Along with the submitter, I am also on the team of maintainers who volunteered to help with maintenance of this project after tteck's sad news that they were entering hospice (1). The team members are all motivated individuals, who are enthusiastic on carrying on tteck's legacy.

We are moving forward in a transparent manner and I am more than happy to answer any questions.

(1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016605

I have been using Proxmox VE for several years now and have most of my services running as docker containers in one VM. This always bothered me because I wanted to be able to control the individual services and their backup jobs using the Proxmox interface. After checking out these scripts I already moved a couple services (Caddy and Wireguard) over to LXC containers and am very impressed by how easy it was to do.

Basically I just wanted to say thanks to everyone involved in making these scripts, it has left me with a great first impression.

A bit of a tangent. I've been trying to manage libvirt& Unraid through terraform, but have run into issue after issue. I'm about given up, and will just manage the virtual machines manually...

What's the virtualization technology on proxmox?

What's the advantage to using something like this as opposed to terraform or salt stack or Ansible?

I have been looking into setting up my first Proxmox box, here is my take as a newcomer.

I wanted to do what I think is a very basic and very common setup: Modem > proxmox box > OPNsense VM > physical wifi router via onboard 10Gb NIC + internal network VMs like OMV etc. The goal is to add a full network filter via OPNsense, and allow access to a media sever and backup etc from the internal network.

I see no OPNsense, OMV script is basically contra-indicated because it should be a VM instead of the LXC container, and I don't see any glue scripts to get VMs talking to each other, which is an important part of Proxmox configuration. So it looks like there is room here to get some basic setup scripts for a simple home server either improved or added to the collection.

Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016605

I'll definitely look into the docker LXC and Home Assistant VM. I'd been using docker in a VM on proxmox, successfully mind you, but perhaps there's some more efficiency to squeeze...

I decided to run proxmox on my homelab rather than having a k8s setup, and I've come to sort of regret it. LXCs are awesome, but being bound to just them or qemu VMs doesn't fit all of my needs. With Kubernetes I could just add support for lightweight VMs (Firecracker hypervisor, or unikernels or something) with a project like Kata. Proxmox is just not extensible.

It's also just not amenable to automation or reproducible builds in the same way as an established pod manager like Kubernetes: there's no support that I can find for Terraform, and so you're stuck with regular full-disk backups and maybe some Chef/Ansible/Puppet tooling, which I don't want to invest in [re]learning.

Still, very cool resource management and passthrough model, and it's easy to set up and maintain, with a nice control panel.

What capabilties does Proxmox have that are missing from simple KVM? Just a web interface?

Fantastic community! I've tried a couple of scripts already. I have running Pi-hole and Paperless LXC containers. I'm looking forward to Appflowy!

Unfortunately until this day Proxmox doesn’t support full disk encryption oob, despite using the word „Enterprise“ in the first paragraph of their website. Yes, you can go your own way and install on an encrypted Debian, but you will miss important features and are on your own. It all comes down to ZFS not treating FDE as a first class citizen.

Very sad state of affairs.