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community-scripts/ProxmoxVE
Proxmox VE Helper-Scripts (Community Edition)
A community-maintained collection of shell scripts that install self-hosted services into Proxmox LXC containers or VMs with a single command. It's the spiritual successor to tteck's original helper-scripts repo, now kept alive by a small volunteer team. The target user is a homelabber who runs Proxmox and wants Jellyfin or Vaultwarden running in five minutes without reading three wikis.
The breadth is genuinely impressive — 300+ services covering databases, media servers, monitoring stacks, and home automation, all following a consistent two-mode pattern (sensible defaults vs. full control). The separation into a staging repo (ProxmoxVED) for new scripts before they land here is smart process design that keeps quality higher than most community script dumps. Scripts ship post-install helpers that handle updates and common config changes, which means you're not orphaned after the first run. Active maintenance with monthly changelogs going back to 2022 and a workflow that auto-closes stale PRs signals the project isn't dying.
It's shell scripts all the way down — no idempotency guarantees, no state tracking, no rollback if something goes wrong mid-install. Re-running a script on an existing container is often destructive or undefined. The security model is 'paste this curl-to-bash into your root shell', which is fine for a homelab but means you're trusting hundreds of contributors for scripts that run as root on your hypervisor host. There's no automated testing of the actual install scripts — CI checks shell syntax and JSON metadata but doesn't spin up a container and verify the service comes up. With 300+ scripts, drift between what a script installs and what the current upstream release actually needs is inevitable and hard to detect.