PVE electrified

This is a modification of the Proxmox Virtual Environment user interface, that brings some nice features, mainly for homelab’ers.

Install

wget https://pve-electrified.net/pubkey.asc -O /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/pve-electrified.asc
echo "deb https://pve-electrified.net/debian bookworm main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt update && install -y pve-manager-electrified

Uninstall

apt install -y pve-manager-electrified- pve-manager+

Architecture

These are the differences to the original pve-manager package from Proxmox: These are mainly intended, to improve the developer experience.

• Backend: Pve-manager-electrified starts a nodejs webserver, which is written in Typescript, so we have more modern language here than Pearl. This webserver (port 8006) proxies some of the http paths, like to /pve2, /novnc, /xtermjs , pwt, /api2 to the original pve backend server (called pveproxy) which is also/still running but was just moved to a different (internal) port: 8005.
• Frontend: Each time, when started, the nodejs webserver uses vite, to bundle the web files. This way, we can have the most modern web techniques like React, Typescript, npm dependency management and fast reloading during development (during dev, it starts a vite devserver). The old original .js files are also served. But instead of all in a non-debugging-friendly bigfile, they are listed as individually (Vite can still bundle them internally but then we have proper source mapping). React components are used in the mix with the old ExtJS 6 components.