So you’re running Proxmox and you have storage for the node on an NFS share somewhere. When you get a container or VM from somewhere else and upload it, lazy style like me, it might end up with the wrong ownership if you do it like this: The result is the Proxmox backup utility will…
Torgrun’s Journal, Day 6
Dad, Who the hell does magical experiments on cats to turn them into snake jawed attack cats? This shit was unreal already working for MOOK, but now i’m trapped in this magical manor in the middle of purple swirly space and the cats are attacking and the furniture is attacking and there’s nothing in the…
Renaming GoPros the manual way
So you have a GoPro camera, probably an older one, and for some reason you can’t rename them when connecting them to the Quik app anymore. Don’t fret, here’s the precise way on how to get it done.(Credit to https://github.com/KonradIT/gpauto but his instructions aren’t complete) Go to your Connect screen on your GoPro, and get…
Finding orphaned Proxmox disks
So let’s say you’re running Proxmox and you have a bunch of containers and VMs, and you’ve been moving them around. Or you’ve been making/deleting a bunch of VMs so you end up reusing guest ID numbers. You might end up with orphaned disks in your LVM-Thin volumes, or elsewhere, that aren’t attached to anything…
Uploading the correct ACME keys to your SFTP upload client
So you’ve got OPNsense as a router, and you’re trying to shove certificates around using the ACME client automations, and it’s not going well. You try to test the connection and all you get is Permission Denied (publickey, password) errors. The fix is to upload the correct key to the correct place. The issue is,…
A quick strategy to get Proxmox to let you upload disk images to Thin-LVM volumes
So, a little background: In Proxmox you have local mounted storage on each of your nodes. You also have Thin-LVM volumes, which are an abstraction layer sitting on top of physical hardware; so like /dev/sdb isn’t the actual volume, it’s just the block storage for the thinly provisioned LVM volume. You can put images there,…
How to get OPNsense and self-signed certs working with nginx
Right, so your configuration might look like this: You have a site you’ve built up haphazardly and it’s got invalid or self-signed certificates. You have OPNsense and nginx, running together. You’ve followed this guide to the letter and now you’re getting 502 errors because you also managed to put port forwards to the nginx client,…
SSL Termination: Finding out what you need to know
Okay, so, you’re a new webmin like me and you’re trying to figure out passing keys around. You figure out that maybe nginx can store the keys, and then you can have it talk SSL to the browser, and fetch pages from the actual services via http. This means that the actual servers/appliances/whathaveyou don’t need…
What’s the Setup, then?
The tutorials I’ve seen for setting up a range of things goes something like this: You’ve got a server or a box or something and you stick Docker on it for some ungodly reason, and now you’re configuring your shit. You’re trying to get SSL certs going because the lock icon is swag and it…
How to add certs to Proxmox for the WebGUI?
Okay, so you’ve set up OPNsense like I did, and the Automations don’t necessarily work yet, but you want to upload the certificates to your Proxmox instance so you can get that nice lock icon in the browser and stop getting nagged. So, where do they go? Remember, Proxmox is built on nodes, and each…