TrueNAS: Full Setup Guide for Setting Up Portainer, Containers and Tailscale #Ultimatehomeserver

Wendell walks you through installing Portainer and Tailscale on TrueNAS for your home server!

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[jeremyjedynak]

Spoiler alert: Red Shirt Wendel survives the NAS software configuration.

[sklucas]

Thank God for written guides. It's a rare occurrence nowadays.

[mikew]

Wendel... You are the only person on Youtube, that I can truly trust your information. I have learned so much from you over the years. Getting my feet wet with TruNAS core and built my first NAS/Server about 3 months ago now on an Optiplex 990 (i7-2600). Creating a ZFS Pool was a 1st for me, and setting up an SMD Share... I'm sure I haven't made it the most efficient config, But I'm learning! Thank you for everything you share!!!

[henrymethorst]

Truenas Scale and Truecharts being "sort of clunky" is a ridiculous understatement. The documentation is horrendous as well. I am 2 seconds away from going back to proxmox and never looking back

[hotforrobot]

Wow I ran into the network share issue last year and thought I was crazy. Lazy solution, I setup a 2nd truenas system in the lab to act as a network share for VMs on the first. Glad to finally find a workaround. Leave it to Wendell to solve a problem I never asked about 😂

[NatesRandomVideo]

Nice video Wendell. The wonkiness of the networking is a big turn off for new DIYers, whereas us old farts just sigh and fight thru it. Sadly this means when non techs ask what I recommend for home NAS storage and basic messing around, I just sigh and say Synology.

[JoshuaSaundersAtLarge]

Eek. Glad i watched this. Been wanting to consolidate a few systems into one more modern, and this has me rethinking my direction, which was basically this without knowing the landmines.

[MRPtech]

I learned a lot from you in past 4 - 5 months!
At this moment my home server setup: 12th Gen i7 Intel NUC with 64GB Ram, 240SSD hosting Proxmox and 2TB NVME for VMs.
One VM is TrueNAS Scale which handles 16TB Mirror rust drives (Attached Drive BAY). Stores everything from Proxmox (Backups, ISOs, CT Templates, VM Additional drives, iSCSI 5TB drive for my work PC)
Addition to TrueNAS, Proxmox spinning another 5 VMs and 10 CT Containers.
Drive bay + NUC with all the stuff using on average 45 - 50w

[frollard]

I pulled the trigger on unraid after trying and horribly failing at setting up truenas. Needed this video a year ago :P Awesome content as always!

[CoryAlbrecht]

The best thing about this video was listening to Wendell's aggrieved tone of voice when discussing the broken network stack for TrueNAS Scale. I imagine that's what I sound like to other people when I'm complaining about it stuff myself.

[evankngry]

I had this issue trying to set up twingate on my Truenas set up. I could not for the life of me figure out why I could connect to other virtual machines hosted in truenas, but could not connect to the truenas dashboard. I've been wracking my brain for a few weeks trying to figure out why it wasn't working. Can confirm the network bridge fixed it. Such an easy fix but easily overlooked. Thanks Wendell. :)

[manofwar]

I've been using truecharts for some of my containers and, as you said early on, they're not very transparent and tend to force you to use their specific workflows. On top of that, I always run into issues with their containers whenever I try to do updates. It's definitely going to be a rough process but this video will definitely help me to transition away from truecharts apps. Also, Tailscale also opens up a lot of possibilities when it comes to remotely accessing my services securely and more simply. So thanks for that too!

[thenerviousman]

Didn't know about Tailscale, was exactly what I always wanted to access my NAS over Internet. Thank you!

[Jambax]

One important thing to mention about the bridging. If you have a VM running or set to 'Autostart', make sure you have it off, or none of the bridge changes will work.

[the-patient-]

This channel is SO UNDERAPPRECIATED!! Great video! I'm waiting to have the budget to start tipping my toes.

[WarrMan]

Switching from unraid to truenas. Followed this tutorial and got portainer going. Now to get all my apps going!

[Adrayven]

Unfortunately, I've found the mods on TrueNAS forums being rude is their natural state. This isn't a bug, being rude and condescending is aTrueNAS mod feature. Thats why I always look elsewhere and only go there if I absolutely have too. Really like TrueNAS, really dislike how they treat others.. Might be different for enterprise customers; thats the path they've really taken as a company.

[marcusc]

Thanks Wendel, I was stuck on this for a few days until I ran across your video.

[penguinthesolver]

Thanks for the tutorial! Gonna buy Synology

[dobrzpe]

i was wondering why you went through a VM just to install Portainer instead of through docker on TrueNAS... but then i read the writeup! ok. was very well explained and makes a lot (more) sense. thanks for the writeup!