My setup: “external exposure” of the proxmox ui via Tailscale. Mostly collections of specialized virtual machines. One runs pihole for filtering and custom DNS. Another serves as a custom certificate resolver with step-ca. Another is just a VM that I use to run docker containers (I don’t really like running LXC containers at the top level of proxmox since I like to tinker and I have custom scripts setup to start, stop, and do other things via the command line with docker compose). All of this is purely in the service of selfhosting and a lot of less than truly productive hobbyist tinkering. Still, proxmox has been a ton of fun for me.
I’ve never actually used cloud-init. I generally prefer to do all my setup and provisioning manually. At least so far. I don’t spin up machines often enough to need to automate the various setup and provisioning routines that typically go along with making new VMs. That might change later.
Even though I use Proxmox in my homelab and do not use it for anything “Mission Critical” I do like using cloud-init to quickly spin up a machine without having to then spend the next 30 minutes or so installing all of the little tidbits that I like having at my disposal. Eg. neofetch, tmux, etc.
My setup: “external exposure” of the proxmox ui via Tailscale. Mostly collections of specialized virtual machines. One runs pihole for filtering and custom DNS. Another serves as a custom certificate resolver with step-ca. Another is just a VM that I use to run docker containers (I don’t really like running LXC containers at the top level of proxmox since I like to tinker and I have custom scripts setup to start, stop, and do other things via the command line with docker compose). All of this is purely in the service of selfhosting and a lot of less than truly productive hobbyist tinkering. Still, proxmox has been a ton of fun for me.
@rwhitisissle@lemmy.ml Thanks for bringing step-ca to my / our attention. Very interesting. What are your thoughts on cloud-init, if any?
I’ve never actually used cloud-init. I generally prefer to do all my setup and provisioning manually. At least so far. I don’t spin up machines often enough to need to automate the various setup and provisioning routines that typically go along with making new VMs. That might change later.
Even though I use Proxmox in my homelab and do not use it for anything “Mission Critical” I do like using cloud-init to quickly spin up a machine without having to then spend the next 30 minutes or so installing all of the little tidbits that I like having at my disposal. Eg. neofetch, tmux, etc.
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