Add Physical Drive in Proxmox VM Guest Rumi, April 19, 2025 Step-1: Check the block disk status- lsblk Step-2 Check the blockid of the system- blkid Step-3 Now list the device by ID- ls -n /dev/disk/by-id/ Now add the disk to the Virtual Machine Instance- /sbin/qm set 105 -virtio1/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HGST_HGH728570ALE604_VKGRZ09X Here- 105- is the VMID virtio1- is the disk ID number, assuming… Continue Reading
Mount a drive permanently with fstab in Linux Rumi, April 16, 2025 Step 1: Find the UUID of the drive First, you need to find the UUID of the drive you want to mount. You can do this by running the following command: sudo blkid This will list all the drives connected to your system along with their UUIDs. For example, the… Continue Reading
Proxmox 1:1 NAT routing Rumi, March 30, 2025 Background: The objective was to serve VM’s default route via private network Public IP with no default route More control over firewalling policy over the VM (which is not covered in this post) Automation via DHCP on VM provisioning (This too no covered in this post) D-NAT to the VM… Continue Reading
Install Proxmox Backup Server on Debian 12 Rumi, February 12, 2025February 12, 2025 Set Hostname. Edit /etc/hostname. # nano /etc/hostname Overwrite the file with following content and save using Ctrl + X then Enter. pbs.example.com Edit /etc/hosts. # nano /etc/hosts Add the following line and save the file using Ctrl + X then Enter. 127.0.0.1 pbs.example.com Reboot the server. # reboot Check if the system hostname matches your subdomain. Continue Reading
Install Uptime Kuma on Debian 12 Rumi, January 25, 2025 Log into the Linux device. Run the following commands in a terminal window# update software repositories sudo apt update # install available software updates sudo apt upgrade -y # install prerequisites sudo apt install git curl -y # add nodejs software repository curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_current.x | sudo bash – #… Continue Reading
Install HAProxy on Ubuntu 20.04 Rumi, January 18, 2025 Prerequisites To follow along with this HAProxy tutorial, you require the following: A set of 3 Ubuntu 20.04 servers configured with private networking. Please refer to the guide on How to Create a Private Network to set up private networking for your Vultr servers. Your servers should be in the… Continue Reading
mirrorlist.centos.org no longer available – updating centos 8 repository Rumi, January 18, 2025 mirrorlist.centos.org doesn’t exists anymore. From the .repo file: # The mirror system uses the connecting IP address of the client and the # update status of each mirror to pick mirrors that are updated to and # geographically close to the client. You should use this for CentOS updates #… Continue Reading
Install GoAccess Log Analysis tool on Rocky Linux 9 Rumi, January 18, 2025November 8, 2025 Perform a system update Before installing any packages on the CentOS server instance, it is recommended to update the system. Log in using the sudo user and run the following commands to update the system. sudo yum -y install epel-release sudo yum -y update sudo shutdown -r now Once the… Continue Reading
Setting Up Docker and Docker Compose on Debian 12 Rumi, December 27, 2024 Installing Docker on Debian 12 Before installing Docker, ensure your Debian system is up-to-date with the following command: sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y Once your system is updated, install the necessary packages to allow apt to use a repository over HTTPS: sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl… Continue Reading
Gitlab SMTP settings with Zimbra Mail Rumi, December 22, 2024December 22, 2024 If you would rather send application email via an SMTP server instead of via Sendmail or Postfix, add the following configuration information to /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb and run gitlab-ctl reconfigure. gitlab_rails[‘smtp_enable’] = true gitlab_rails[‘smtp_address’] = ‘mail.siteage.net’ gitlab_rails[‘smtp_port’] = 465 gitlab_rails[‘smtp_user_name’] = ‘gitlab@domain.com’ gitlab_rails[‘smtp_password’] = ‘password’ gitlab_rails[‘smtp_authentication’] = ‘login’ gitlab_rails[‘smtp_enable_starttls_auto’] = false gitlab_rails[‘gitlab_email_from’]… Continue Reading