Log of interventions and discoveries on the infrastructure: Proxmox, Ansible, networking, observability.
Proxmox: first steps on the homelab
Initial setup of a Proxmox VE node on the homelab, ahead of automation via Ansible. Installation Installed from the official ISO image, on a dedicated NVMe disk. Network configured as a bridge (vmbr0) to expose VMs directly on the LAN. # Check the installed version pveversion # List cluster nodes (a single node here) pvecm nodes Storage Two storage types configured: local-lvm for VM disks (thin provisioning) local for ISOs and container templates Next steps Provisioning VMs via the Proxmox API from Ansible Setting up a Prometheus exporter for node monitoring Automated backups to external storage