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Intro For years, my self-hosted applications have been running as Docker containers managed with Docker Compose on a single virtual machine.

Intro My OPNsense cluster is the front door of my homelab.

Intro I already had an Ubuntu cloud-init template in Proxmox, based on the setup described in this previous article.

Intro In my homelab, most of the infrastructure is already redundant enough to tolerate maintenance, but the update process itself was still too manual.

Intro In my homelab, updates are one of those things that are easy to postpone.

Intro My homelab network is handled by an OPNsense cluster composed of two VM nodes.

Introduction In my homelab, I need a place to store data outside of my Proxmox VE cluster.

Intro In my homelab, I like to play with tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Intro In this post, I am not going to explain best practices for deploying applications.

Intro This is the final stage of my OPNsense virtualization journey.

Intro My Proxmox VE cluster is almost one year old now, and I haven’t kept the nodes fully up to date.

Intro In my previous article I set up a PoC to validate building a cluster of two OPNsense VMs in Proxmox VE to make the firewall highly available.

Intro I recently encountered my first real problem, my physical OPNsense box crashed because of a kernel panic, I’ve detailed what happened in that post.

Intro When I first built my Proxmox VE 8 cluster, networking wasn’t my main concern.

Intro This week, I experienced my first real problem on my homelab, which caused my whole home network to go down.

Intro After building my own Kubernetes cluster in my homelab using kubeadm in that post, my next challenge is to expose a simple pod externally, reachable with an URL and secured with a TLS certificate verified by Let’s Encrypt.

Intro In this previous article, I explained how to deploy VMs using a Terraform module with Proxmox and ended up with 6 VMs, 3 masters and 3 workers nodes, based on cloud-init template.

Intro In a previous post, I explained how to deploy Virtual Machines on Proxmox using Terraform, building from a cloud-init template.

Intro In my apartment I have a Daikin air conditioning system, to cool it down in summer, but also warm it up in winter.

Intro To know what is going on in my homelab and be warned when something fails, I want to setup a notification system where almost anything could seamlessly send me a message that I would receive on my mobile.

Intro Now that my blog is live, I can’t really afford to break it with every single change.

Intro One of the most satisfying parts of building a homelab is getting to apply production-grade tooling to a personal setup.

💡 Intro I always wanted to share my own experiences to give others ideas or help them on their projects.

Intro Creating a VM template in Proxmox using cloud-init can streamline VM deployments significantly.