In light of recent developments at VMware following their acquisition, many in the tech community are exploring alternatives for their hypervisor needs. If you're among those searching for a reliable and versatile option, you might want to consider Proxmox. Having run a combination of ESXi and Proxmox in

Grafana dashboards offer a visually appealing and efficient way to track server metrics. In this guide, we’ll walk through the process of setting up Grafana with VMWare to monitor various metrics on your servers effectively. Last year, I shared a guide on setting up Grafana for Proxmox. Having transitioned

A few months ago, I transitioned from Proxmox back to VMWare. My shift was mostly motivated by a discovery that the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools associated with VMWare are much more robust. Currently, I'm leveraging Hashicorp Packer and Terraform to shape my infrastructure within VMWare. Here'

I have recently started making use of Home Assistant to not only set up automation in the IoT devices within my home, but to also take control of said devices and not have to rely upon poorly made, buggy apps from the manufacturers of my devices. In my search to

Introduction In a previous post, I covered the process of creating an instance of Nginx to help you more conveniently access your internally hosted apps and services.  Assuming you followed that guide, you might have encountered something like this when trying to access an internal site: This is your browser

Introduction Plex has been a staple of my homelab from the beginning.  The appeal of having my own media server is what initially pushed me to build my very first home server utilizing spare gaming PC parts that I had lying around. Since then, my lab has changed dramatically and

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