Ubuntu Server to Proxmox

I recently switched from an Ubuntu server for my home lab usage to Proxmox.

I found myself spending more time administering the server than using the server for home lab testing.

A few years back, I switched from TrueNAS to just an Ubuntu Server, as TrueNAS was overkill, and had enough of their …

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Hugo posts with a Table of Contents

For some of my lengthier posts, a table of contents (TOC) would help with reading the post, and especially when going over certain parts of the posts.

A good example is the original 'Wireguard VPN access' post I made (https://www.nodinrogers.com/post/2022-01-01-wireguard ), which had …

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One of the (few) things I liked about using Windows in the lab was being able to use bginfo to show basic host information as the background.

For my lab machines, I like being able to see basic information, without a resource-heavy application doing the display.

Conky meets that need.

Highly configurable, with a lot of …

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I have a few virtual machine deployed on in my home lab, and my general OS of choice is Ubuntu Mate.

Not as barebones basic as XFCE4, and not as resource-intensive as Gnome3 or KDE.

One of the first things I do after rolling out a virtual machine is to disable the screensaver and lock screen on any OS.

On Ubuntu Mate, …

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One of the things I always like about using VMWare's ESXi servers was the ability to access the console of the virtual machine (VM).

This ability also exists when using Linux KVM and Linux VMs, and is pretty simple to set up.

Bonus points after a small config change, it's much more usable.

Enable the console from …

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Using minikube is a great way to learn Kubernetes, without all of the overhead/complexity of installing a full fledged Kubernetes deployment.

In a nutshell, minikube is local Kubernetes.

As Kubernetes/minikube are container orchestration tools, you need something to run the 'pods'.

For minikube, this can be Docker, …

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