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As a promised follow-up to my previous post, today I will outline the process necessary to set up and utilize HashiCorp Terraform within Proxmox. To preface, Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool, letting you spin up, modify, and destroy infrastructure.  Terraform is extremely versatile, utilizing Terraform Providers to interface

Introduction Proxmox has been my go-to choice as a hypervisor for the last several months, after migrating off of VMWare, my previous choice in hypervisor.  It offers a plethora of features and functionality, including the ability to create VM templates. While it is easy to click through all of the

Introduction: While Proxmox has been my hypervisor of choice for the last year or so, I recently realized that I have an abundance of unused hardware within my workstation/gaming rig.  Currently running Windows 10, the machine is capable of running virtual machines by making use of Hyper-V.  With a

My current workstation setup consists of a 16" M1 Pro MacBook Pro.  I have thoroughly enjoyed it but have found that iTerm2 and OhMyZSH have made for excellent additions to my workflow. iTerm 2 acts as a no-frills, yet feature rich, terminal for MacOS devices. OhMyZSH builds on top of

I figured it's time to join the current decade and explore software defined storage options, particularly ZFS.  Until now, my storage stack has consisted entirely of hardware raid arrays, or, better yet, no array or redundancy at all in the case of my Plex media server. ZFS, in particular, interested

From time to time, you may be greeted with the following message when logging into your vCenter appliance, letting you know that your appliance needs updating:‌ Today's post will walk you through the simple process of updating your vCenter appliance to the latest version. Prerequisites As always, I would strongly

A while back, I showed you how to back up your VMWare virtual machines with Veeam.  While the vast majority of my lab operates within VMWare's vSphere, I do have one bare metal Linux installation – my Plex server. For those who are unfamiliar with the term "bare metal", it really

After recently trying to SSH into my vCenter appliance for the first time in months, I was surprised to find that I was presented with the following message: ➜ ~ ssh [email protected] VMware vCenter Server 7.0.2.00500 Type: vCenter Server with an embedded Platform Services Controller

In a previous post, I showed you how to get Homer up and running as a self-hosted dashboard in Docker to easily manage and see all of your self hosted services at a glance.  I did not, however, go into depth on how to configure Homer. This guide will cover

VMware's vSphere as a whole has been an awesome addition to my homelab but vMotion, in particular, is one of my favorite features that it has to offer. In short, vMotion allows a user to easily transfer a virtual machine between two different ESXi hosts without the virtual machine needing

Introduction – What is Rclone? Rclone is a fantastic and free command-line tool to manage files in cloud storage.  It has the capability to work with over 40 cloud storage products and is much more feature rich and and powerful than the traditional web interfaces that most cloud storage providers offer.

Intro: In the past, I've covered many different topics pertaining to vSphere and other VMWare products but I recently realized that I haven't ever covered how to patch an ESXi server.  Patching ESXi, just like any other system, is important to fix bugs and security vulnerabilities as they are discovered.

While getting hands on with Terraform and doing a bit of learning about it (blog posts to come!), I found a neat trick to opening a specified file with VSCode using the MacOS command line. While it initially didn't seem very helpful to me, I've found this new method of

Introduction Downloading and using docker containers with docker compose is a very easy process and, continuing in that trend, the same can be said for updating your docker container with it. Prerequisites It is important to note that during the container update process, unless you specifically have persistent volumes configured

Introduction This document covers the installation process of Magento 2.4.2 on an EC2 instance of Ubuntu 20.04 Prerequisites Before beginning the installation process, you must create an account at https://magento.com/ After creating an account, acquire your public and private keys, needed for a later step,

While RAID, ZFS, and other storage technologies do an excellent job of providing redundancy in the case of a drive failure, it is important to remember that redundancy is not a replacement for backups. Instead, it is more of a means to maintain uptime.  Because of this, it is important

Introduction If you're anything like me, you might have a handful of PCs or VMs with local accounts on them from an era prior to you having an Active Directory domain.  Until now, it seemed to me that there was no reasonable way to get the contents of these local