Running Proxmox in my homelab

Proxmox VE turns a single machine into a small private cloud. It’s where I prototype ideas — segmented networks, new databases, observability stacks — without risking anything that matters.

Why Proxmox#

• KVM virtual machines and LXC containers side by side.
• Snapshots and backups, so I can break things and roll back in seconds.
• A clean API and CLI for automation.

A VM in one line#

qm create 9000 --name k8s-node-1 --memory 8192 --cores 4 \
  --net0 virtio,bridge=vmbr0,tag=20 --scsihw virtio-scsi-single

The tag=20 drops the VM onto a dedicated VLAN so lab traffic stays isolated from the rest of the house.

What’s next#

More on the network design and the services I self-host in future posts.