Manage a Proxmox homelab with Grok Bot
A user runs Grok Bot in an Ubuntu VM on Proxmox to handle repetitive homelab management, stepping in on judgment calls or breakages, with multiple agents as fallback. ·
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- What they did
- The user set up a small guest VM on a Proxmox test server and gave Grok SSH access plus a Cloudflare tunnel. Grok then built a server-side "submind" of scripts and services for repetitive checks and bulk tasks, kept extending it for new projects, and also built a display interface; the user mainly supplied the server, described goals, and decided permissions and when to step in for judgment calls or breakages.
- How it went
- It took over routine homelab work that had been consuming Grok usage just to confirm nothing changed, and surfaced issues on a rotating status screen. The post gives no hard performance numbers, only that the user still intervenes for new tasks, failures, and access decisions.
- Worth knowing
- The main catch is governance: the user says they still control what access the bot gets and what it is allowed to do.
Try it yourself with Grok Bot
You're running in a VM on my Proxmox homelab. Handle these repetitive jobs: [e.g. check VM health, apply updates, review backups, restart failed services], and log what you did to [file or channel]. If something breaks or a judgment call is needed, stop and describe the problem and your options. Pause and show me the plan before deleting any VM, snapshot, or data, or changing network settings.
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Source: Reddit · Nov 7, 2025
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