So yeah, templates are probably the least exciting thing to talk about, but I consider them foundational. Properly prepared templates mean less pain and simpler, more predictable deployments.

I keep cloud-init templates for just about every Linux distro an enterprise would care about. It gives me total freedom in how I deploy and makes it easy to compare behaviors across platforms.

This document provides a clean, repeatable, production grade procedure for building an Ubuntu 24.04 (Noble) template that works reliably with Proxmox cloud init.

I recently needed a simple load balancer for a couple of projects. I already run HAProxy, but I’m always happy to kick the tires on other tools.

This guide is a verified install doc that walks through setting up Nginx and its UI on Debian 12 (Bookworm). It may also work on Debian 11, b...