Month: May 2025

Now that I am separating my services into containers or even VMs, I have enough servers running that setting them all up for something new (like centralized log collection through syslog or updating their postfix configuration to point to a central mail relay) is becoming tedious to do manually or with ad-hoc scripts. Enter Ansible…

One slightly tricky thing with proxmox (at least to me), is getting things right with bind mounts and id mapping from host to container. This is a brief overview of the basics and how to set this up so it works correctly: Background is that a proxmox container UID and GID space starts from 100000…