I've got a Lenovo M93p Tiny with 16GB RAM and a Haswell Xeon. It's a great little unit that I used to use as my Haiku build box.

I'm thinking about using it as a #Forgejo (and maybe eventually #Codeberg) Actions runner, with a handful of lightweight VMs (Alpine, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku), each using no more than a gig or two of memory.

Does anyone have any tips on doing this? I'm guessing #Proxmox would be a good start, but I wonder if #FreeBSD with #bhyve and #BastilleBSD might also do a good job.

Ich überlege, meinen #homeassistant, der bisher auf einem separaten Thin-Client läuft, auf den #proxmox umzuziehen, oder dort zumindest eine cold standby Installation zu haben, falls der Thin-Client mal die Grätsche macht.

Wie fummelig ist dann das Durchreichen von Hardware in #proxmox? Es steckt ein #Zigbee USB Dongle am bisherigen Thin-Client. Und da der #proxmox Server im Keller steht, ist Empfang vielleicht ein Thema. Wie habt ihr das gelöst, wenn ihr sowas in den Keller verbannt habt?

sudo apt update isn't working #networking #proxmox

https://askubuntu.com/q/1565252/612

I wrote up my entire backup strategy for my servers across FreeBSD and Linux:

- ZFS snapshots with sanoid
- Off-site replication via syncoid to rsync.net (encrypted at rest)
- Proxmox Backup Server fronting Backblaze B2 for VMs
- A Podman trick for backing up RHEL hosts without native packages
- Dead man's switch monitoring
- Quarterly restore tests recorded with asciinema

Real configs included.

https://blog.hofstede.it/my-multi-stage-backup-strategy-zfs-proxmox-and-paranoia/

#backup #zfs #freebsd #linux #proxmox #sysadmin #selfhosted

Did my first project with OpenTofu and Ansible this week.
OpenTofu makes the management of virtual machines on my proxmox cluster much easier than my ansible roles ever could...
Learned that week about proxmox resource pools to separate the test environment from the production. Very nice 🤘 😄

#ansible #opentofu #terraform #proxmox #homelab