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Discovered a Hidden Gem for LXC Containers

Grégory Laroche

Grégory Laroche

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Discovered a Hidden Gem for LXC Containers
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I recently spun up a Proxmox cluster just to mess around with it. While hunting for some LXC container examples, I stumbled upon this absolute gem below :
https://helper-scripts.com/scripts

Holy moly, what a find ! This is pure gold—a breeze to spin up a container with just a simple copy-paste. (as always check what are the .sh like before run them. no surprises allowed...)

Below, a few useful containers I checked :

1.Proxmox maintenance containers

    • Proxmox VE Post Install : get rid of all the little embarrasing alert and pop-up when using Proxmox free edition
    • Proxmox VE LXC Cleaner : delete logs and cache in all your containers at once
    • Proxmox VE LXC Updater : update all your LXC containers at once and even CRON it with Proxmox VE Cron LXC Updater
    • Proxmox VE LXC Filesystem Trim : manage unused block and get rid of unnecessary storage use

2.Database

    • Run your MariaDB, InfluxDB, PostgreSQL and other in one click

3.Docker

    • Docker in an LXC container
    • Podman in an LXC container

4.Operating systems

    • Debian, Alpine, or Ubuntu in an LXC container

5.Server, Networking

    • Headscale : your own tailscale manager in a container
    • Cloudlfared : your Cloudflare VPN tunnel easy peasy
    • Nginx Proxy Manager : a manager for Nginx reverse proxy
    • WireGuard : very fast and secure VPN with easy configuration
    • Iventoy : PXE boot manage that can serve ISO to PXE boot.
    • Zoraxy : new reverse proxy with lot of feaures and fast performance

6.Media, Photos

    • Jellyfin Media Server : streaming media server to server various kind of client, included http client.

7.NVR, DVR

    • Frigate : NVR for your camera with strong AI capabilties and AI chips support

8.Adblocker, DNS

    • Adguard Home : DNS server with DNSEC & DNS over TLS and DNS over Https capabilities. Also Adblocker and DNS rewritter.
    • PiHole : DNS server with Adblocker capabilties

9.Documents, notes

    • Paperless-ngx : Document server based on OCR capabilties to index documents scanned from paper format.
    • Stirling-pdf : multi-tool to perform a lot of operations to PDF.

10.Dashboards

    • A lot fo different kind of dashboard to help organise your home lab services. the ones I make a try : homer, Heimdall and homepage.

11.File, code

    • FileBrowser : add graphical interface to your Linux to manage file despite they are Linux console mode only (no GUI)
    • Deluge : a P2P ligthweight client
    • Forgejo : a GIT code repository self hosted
    • PairDrop : manage file sharing with any kind of device (laptop, ipda, phones...)

12.Miscellaneous

    • Vaultwarden : self host vault to store your bitwarden login and password
    • Commafeed : RSS syndication tool
    • Whoogle : google search proxy to anonymize your traffic and requests

Not too shabby, right? And guess what—there’s plenty more where that came from !

If you want to snoop around their GitHub, here’s the link :
https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox
Or maybe you're in the mood for a good chat? Then check out the forums here :
https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox/discussions

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