Congratulations on landing your first IT job! You must be excited and nervous at the same time. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Many people feel overwhelmed when they start working in the IT field, especially if they don’t have a lot of experience or formal education. But don’t let that stop you from succeeding and growing in your career. Here are some tips on how to make the most of your first IT job and learn as much as you can. ...
If you’re like me, prior to using Proxmox you had virtual machines running in something like VirtualBox or Virt Manager. You may have spent a lot of time configuring these VMs and now that you’re migrating to Proxmox you really don’t want to start from scratch on those existing VMs. Luckily, you can import those into Proxmox and I’ll show you how to do that here, so let’s get started. ...
Everyone has heard of Docker by now, it’s one of the most popular ways to create and run containerized apps and services. Docker isn’t difficult to use and understand but there are tools that exist that make managing, creating, and modifying docker containers even easier and user-friendly. This is exactly what Portainer does, it provides you with a simple-to-use and nice-looking web interface to manage your Docker instances and clusters. ...
Ad and tracking blocker plugins are popular in most web browsers, but what if you could apply ad blocking to your entire network without a need for these plugins? This is where Pi-hole comes in, providing you with whole network ad blocking. In this guide, I will walk you through installing Pi-hole on Proxmox using a Ubuntu container so you don’t need many resources to do this. What is Pi-hole? To put it simply, Pi-hole is a DNS server that uses a blocklist to block ads, trackers, and more. It is customizable, meaning you can add additional blocks manually or via openly available blocklists. You can further customize your DNS by whitelisting domains that you find should not be blocked by Pi-hole. ...
I recently rebuilt my Proxmox server and decided that I wanted to give Fedora 37 with KDE Plasma 5.27 a spin. It’s not ideal to always use the console built into Proxmox for remote desktop, as the experience is not the best. To improve the experience, I was going to install and set up XRDP to get the best speed and experience possible while connecting from my main Manjaro laptop. Here, I’ve documented how to XRDP on the Fedora virtual machine and set up the connection on my Manjaro machine using Remmina. ...