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After setting up a self-hosted GitLab instance in a Proxmox LXC container using the Debian Turnkey GitLab template, the initial root user password didn’t seem to be what I set it to during install.
Assuming you can ssh into the instance, change the password of any user with:
sudo gitlab-rake "gitlab:password:reset"
This is from the docs here.
Before you can create a LXC container on a Proxmox virtualized environment, you need to download the template images first from an available list. You need to pre-download the images first befoe you can create new containers from them in the web ui.
From the docs here, there steps are (while ssh’d into your Proxmox server):
Update catalog of available templates:
pveam update
List the available templates:
root@pve:~# pveam available system alpine-3.3-default_20160427_amd64.tar.xz system alpine-3.4-default_20161206_amd64.tar.xz system alpine-3.5-default_20170504_amd64.tar.xz system archlinux-base_20170704-1_amd64.tar.gz system centos-6-default_20161207_amd64.tar.xz system centos-7-default_20170504_amd64.tar.xz system debian-6.0-standard_6.0-7_amd64.tar.gz system debian-7.0-standard_7.11-1_amd64.tar.gz system debian-8.0-standard_8.7-1_amd64.tar.gz system debian-9.0-standard_9.0-2_amd64.tar.gz system fedora-24-default_20161207_amd64.tar.xz system fedora-25-default_20170316_amd64.tar.xz system gentoo-current-default_20170503_amd64.tar.xz system opensuse-42.2-default_20170406_amd64.tar.xz system ubuntu-12.04-standard_12.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-14.04-standard_14.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-16.04-standard_16.04-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-16.10-standard_16.10-1_amd64.tar.gz system ubuntu-17.04-standard_17.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
For each of the templates you wish to use, download using for example for Ubuntu 14.04:
pveam download local ubuntu-14.04-standard_14.04-1_amd64.tar.gz
Now from the web ui, you should be able to click the ‘Create CT’ button and pick from your available templates:
Following on from my earlier article, I read some more about Proxmox running on a Mac Pro so decided to give it a go.
I added an empty drive into one of the spare bays, and then booted from the Proxmox installer.
After first boot and logon with the default root user to the web interface:
The first VM I want to create is for CentOS, and I have the iso ready to go on an attached usb drive, which I copied to the isos dir on Proxmox (/var/lib/vz/template/iso – defined storage locations for images are covered in answers to this post). The image now shows up on the local storage:
Creating a new VM based on this image:
Starting up the image and starting the CentOS install using the web-based vnc access:
… after completing the install, success!
