My Proxmox Home Server Walk-Through: Part 1 (TrueNAS, Portainer, Wireguard)

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
0:36 Checkout NordPass
2:10 What Is This Video?
3:32 The Hardware
7:04 Installing Proxmox
13:02 IOMMU Setup
15:28 TrueNAS Install
20:30 TrueNAS Setup
29:00 Debian Install
41:31 Portainer
43:32 WireGuard
53:39 Wrapping Up

[HardwareHaven]

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[kuroshouten]

I rarely comment on videos, but I had to say thank you for going through each step (including searching google etc.) to help me understand the thought process as well as the steps you were going through to get to where you are. The pacing and editing of this video is perfect for me. Can't wait for the next parts in the series. Thank you for all the work you put into this video.
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[ayden]

This is my favorite computer-oriented channel. I love the simplicity of your videos, the relaxing atmosphere and the straight-forward explanations. Top quality stuff right here, keep striving to improve and reach your goals. 60k in 2 weeks if you keep this up!

[pwerd]

Great video! I love how you do not shy away from showing your mistakes and that you show your thought process and research steps for fixing problems. It definitely makes the video more relatable and better for newer users. Cant wait for Part 2!

[ChazBword]

I absolutely love these types of videos. The walk through is perfect. Mess-ups or mistakes are just learning opportunities for ALL. Great work.

[xterradventure]

I started with Prox, then switched to TrueNAS Scale, now back to Prox and looking to put TrueNAS on a VM on prox which is what brought me here. A couple tips I recommend though are running Turnkey Linux as an LXC to spin up your docker instance. Much faster to start/restart and simple once you do a couple. I'm running 4 or 5 instances for home services, gaming, testing, random. Another tip is for Portainer. Instead of adding each variable line by line using the cli commands, copy/paste the docker-compose info in to a new Stack (Portainers version of docker-compose). Then just edit the variables you'd like. I always thought stacks were groupings of containers but it can be done for single container as well. I find it makes it MUCH easier to edit and redeploy a service as well. Thanks for the video though, the TrueNAS part was exactly what I was looking for.

[jairunet]

Excellent work dude, really enjoyed the whole hour, and really learned that quicker and more practical way to set up wireguard using docker, I did set up wireguard before but in a VM and did all the installation manually, but with portainer and docker seems to be really cool and much easier once you understand what you are doing of course. look forward to 2023 and more videos. All the very best in 2023!

[LouisGiliberto]

Thanks! This saved me a lot of effort. Please continue to make these long-form instructional videos!

[knote]

Your the 1st one to help under stand Wireguard as a hobbyist, and your tutorial are awesome

[ThBeowulf]

Thanks Youtube, how did I miss this wonderful walkthru!?

I had been planning to go down a very similar route with a minor twist. I was running TrueNAS Scale on bare metal and decided it was a waste of the resources on that machine. I took backups and snapshots and made darn sure I could see all the data from the ZFS Pool and plunged in. TrueNAS got installed just as you described in your video, then I IMPORTED the existing ZFS pool and behold, existing data was all there. Then I restored a saved TrueNAS config and now shares, users and settings were all back. The only difference is now TureNAS is virtualized and I can do other things with the resources on this machine. This eases a common fear with everything in the home lab: "How easy will it be to recover from a catastrophic failure?"

Thank you for walking through this so thoroughly!

[FerreiraDMF]

This video is amazing. I work on a complete different field but I always liked to mess with PCs and this is a great simple and explanatory video to configure basic stuff on our home servers and get us up and running. Thanks!!

[porklaser]

Hey I just want to say this video was a huge help. I've been migrating my old proxmox host to a new one, and you had a lot of good poinrters that got me up and running.

[zyghom]

this is AN AMAZING video, looking forward to see the chapter 2, and I LOVE all the mistakes! Especially that you have solved them online

[cherrygaysoda]

i will be returning back to this video to do some of the things uve got here, like adding portainer and wireguard, and for when I build my new homelab, love your vids

[vyngance]

great video series! as others have mentioned I like that you keep the human element in them of making mistakes and learning as you go, I have rarely made any kind of hardware or software install and things went exactly like directions or tutorials, I think its encouraging to see this for folks just starting out especially.

[leester]

Good stuff. I did this a couple of years ago and it turned out great. I was impressed with the quality of Dell business PC's and really love ICY Dock. One bonus was it came with Intel vPro onboard, which has the functionality of a light's out/IPMI board, so you can have remote KVM.

[AntonisAsc]

Really great video, with so many useful info in it. One little tip for you to deploy wireguard easier. Copy from the site the docker-compose command block of text and then in portainer under STACKS tab, click add stack, give a name for the stack, paste the text you copied and press deploy stack. No need to translate all the commands into gui

[johnbeer]

I'm just looking into proxmox for the first time and i intentionally looked for this kind of video from your channel because I think your style is ideal for a first real look at stuff that is on the face of it a bit intimidating to the entirely uninitiated

[jessegaddy]

Thanks so much for this video. I know it wasn't intended as a guide but i had trouble finding videos that really outline the entire process. Really helped me get ideas for my first home lab.

[canny]

Okay! You've inspired me. I have an older server with an AsRock e3c224 motherboard that's been gathering dust.
I think I'll get it out and mess around with some of this stuff too. Thanks for your content!