Hey all, just hoping to get some advice on any software out there that can help me keep on top of all the VMs i’m running on my Proxmox instances, and potentially my other machines I have too.

I’m looking for a way to help me stay on top of updates and things like when the machine was last online, last rebooted etc etc. There are commercial products for such a thing, and I don’t necessarily want to install any sort of Agent on each of the machines (if I can avoid it).

I looked at something like Homarr, but not sure if that’s what i’m really after.

What recommendations do all you have?

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      8 days ago

      Podman inside Nixos inside LXC inside Proxmox

      y tho

      If you’re running Proxmox already, just spin up a VM for Podman/Docker and set up unattended-upgrades. Boom, done. You don’t need a whole lot of CPU or RAM for that, either.

  • tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.gardenEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Ansible doesn’t need an agent besides python and can take care of most kinds of updates. You have to run/schedule it regularly though. It’s pretty good for updating multiple hosts at once (assuming they mostly have the same OSes).

    For uptime, CPU etc you mostly need agents but Proxmox also shows some of these in the UI.

    • Matty_r@programming.devOPEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Cheers I’ll check out Ansible, it been on my lost of things to look at over the years anyway so its a good excuse to dig into it

  • MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I run debian on everything, so I set up unattended-upgrades for security updates and basically forget about it. Docker updates are also automatic with Komodo, just make sure databases are pinned to a major version.

    For monitoring my services I use Uptime Kuma, and get an alert if a service goes down so I can fix it.

    Been pretty solid for years now. Things get rebooted every month or two when I do a Proxmox upgrade and reboot the host.

  • TheUniverseandNetworks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    As others have said, if your VMs are Linux, set up unattended_updates and forget about it.

    If your VMs are windows, then Action1 is free up to 200 clients, it does need an agent installed, but that auto updates too.

  • conrad82@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    They were talking about something similar on episode 38 of https://hybridcloudshow.com/ I think. I see that it is not out yet, I got it early because I pay for the subscription. When it comes out you could give it a listen

    I didn’t catch everything, but Ansible might be worth looking into