This article documents the general steps I followed to install Proxmox servers on two mini PCs, where I replaced Windows 11 Pro with Proxmox. For a total beginner, my advice would be to feed this into Claude or ChatGPT and have them walk you through it step by step. But, read it first and try to understand as much as possible, as Claude and ChatGPT can and will make assumptions that may turn out not to be true for your installation.
This article documents the steps taken to upgrade Immich from 129.0 to 142.1. Immich runs singularly in a Ubuntu VM on a Proxmox server. There is a custom storage location NOT inside the VM where Immich puts processed media after intake. That way, I can run other photo & video apps on the Immich-processed media. I use Shotwell, and it just gives me another way to view and edit our photos.
After every installation of an Ubuntu server in a VM that I will be using to hold a Docker style application, this is how I set up the terminal so that every one of my servers operates with the same terminal configuration. It got a little crazy with twenty different servers and pcs trying to remember which ones had only Bash or which ones had the full stack of Fish, Atuin, Tide and custom prompts. So I made them all the same.
Still documenting how to attach a external SSD (or could be internal) on a linux machine or server and how to initially set it up for basic use. Then, how to get a Docker app running in a VM on a Proxmox server to access and use data on the drive. Example: all music used by Navidrome is on the SSD, or all audiobooks used by Audiobookshelf or digital books, etc.
After almost losing my Proxmox server - thank God for recent backups and snapshots - I decided to document how the storage was set up this time, which was more logical than the initial setup. Two internal NVMe SSDs and one external SSD. General outline of where to host the OS, backups, VMs, and external data used by the VMs, including how to mount it into the Docker containers correctly.
Maintenance Guide for Debian based Proxmox servers. Differs a little from the same tasks on Ubuntu based servers. Don't make the mistake I did of running Ubuntu maintenance script on Debian servers, in this case they were Proxmox ones.
Crontab Guru (Cronitor Dashboard) & Cockpit are GUI fronts for running cron jobs and all things system administration related on Linux Mint.
A repeatable blueprint for mounting external drives through Proxmox hosts to VMs and into Docker containers using NFS shares.
This is an updated, cleaner and easier to follow outline on how to install Fish, Atuin, Tide and set custom left and right prompts in the terminal. You still run Tide Configure to set up the Tide prompt initially.
This appears in other articles on this site but since it is used in most of my new VMs that I spin up on Proxmox, it made sense to break out the instructions in a separate article.