Category: Virtualization
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Crafting a Powerful Development Environment with WSL and Docker
As developers, we often find ourselves in the constant pursuit of the perfect development environment. In my journey to set up an efficient workspace for web and other applications, I’ve encountered my fair share of challenges and solutions. Today, I share my experiences with you, future me, and anyone else seeking to conquer the realm…
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Kubernetes on Proxmox
For the moment, I only have one server running. After setting proxmox up, I set up a single local zfs store on 1 disk. I am not too worried about creating a ceph cluster at the moment, because while ceph is great for HA and replication on many clusters, it is awful for storage capacity.…
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Cloud-Init VM image in Proxmox
Ok, I finally got tired of some of the issues I had with my simple Ubuntu golden image template in Proxmox, and it’s time to setup something a little more permanent and professional. Proxmox has great support for a tool called Cloud-Init. Cloud-init is basically a distro agnostic tool for deploying VMs that auto-populate with…
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I bought new VM servers
Ok ok, I know. After all I said about using my Dell R410s, I went and bought new servers. They were cheap enough, and if you are in the market, I can recommend them. I bought 2 Dell R620s with 64gb of ram each, 2 Xeon E5-2670s, 2 PSUs, 4 SAS drives, iDRAC, and NICs…
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Creating a Golden Image
When getting started with deploying virtual machines in Proxmox, or any hypervisor, it can be beneficial to have a set of “Golden Images” that are basically just pre-configured templates that can be cloned and modified quickly when you need to do something new. First start out by creating an Ubuntu (or whatever you want) VM…