Useful Debian 12 VM Commands

[MickLesk]

Select xterm.js under the Console pull down for copy/paste functions

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Get SSH Going

passwd root

sed -i -e 's/#PermitRootLogin prohibit-password/PermitRootLogin yes/g' -e 's/^PasswordAuthentication.*/PasswordAuthentication yes/' /etc/ssh/sshd_config
ssh-keygen -A
systemctl restart sshd

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Resize the Bootdisk (/dev/sda)

Hardware > Hard Disk (scsi0) > Disk Action > Resize

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Expand VM Disk using parted (/dev/sda1)

apt-get update
apt-get install -y parted

parted /dev/sda
resizepart 1
Fix/Ignore? Fix
Partition number? 1
Yes/No? Yes
End? [2146MB]? -0
(parted) quit
(reboot if not going further)

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Add Guest Agent

apt-get install qemu-guest-agent

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Change Hostname (replace "docker-vm" with whatever you want)

hostnamectl set-hostname docker-vm
sed -i '2i127.0.1.1       docker-vm' /etc/hosts
reboot

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Install Docker

sh <(curl -sSL https://get.docker.com)

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Install Docker Compose

LATEST=$(curl -sL https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep '"tag_name":' | cut -d'"' -f4)
DOCKER_CONFIG=${DOCKER_CONFIG:-$HOME/.docker}
mkdir -p $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins
curl -sSL https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/$LATEST/docker-compose-linux-x86_64 -o ~/.docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose
chmod +x $DOCKER_CONFIG/cli-plugins/docker-compose
docker compose version

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Add Dockge

• Install Docker Compose first

mkdir -p /opt/{dockge,stacks}
wget -q -O /opt/dockge/compose.yaml https://raw.githubusercontent.com/louislam/dockge/master/compose.yaml
cd /opt/dockge
docker compose up -d

Dockge GUI, https:// IP:5001

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Add Portainer

• Docker run

docker volume create portainer_data
docker run -d \
  -p 8000:8000 \
  -p 9443:9443 \
  --name=portainer \
  --restart=always \
  -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
  -v portainer_data:/data \
  portainer/portainer-ce:latest

Portainer GUI, https:// IP:9443

Migrated from: tteck/Proxmox#1988

[diegoweb]

I think this info should also be displayed in the website, just like the old one.
Because if you switch to another tab in Proxmox, you loose what was written in shell.