Depl0y administration: access, audit, updates and backups
For the admin who runs the Depl0y panel itself: which actions need Admin, Operator or any role, TOTP and account hygiene, using the audit log to answer 'who did this', keeping the panel off the internet, what config.env holds and how logs from older versions can contain passwords, supported versions and safe upgrade paths, the state on disk, and why the Docker Compose path and old upgrade instructions don't apply.
- Level
- Advanced
- Length
- About 50 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 2 Oct 2026
- Depl0y · open source
Skills you'll practise
- Assign roles so that admin-only actions stay with admins
- Review accounts for missing TOTP and leavers, and act on what you find
- Answer 'who did this' from the audit log rather than the Proxmox task log
- Check a config.env and the panel's exposure against the documented recommendations
- Upgrade an unsupported Depl0y version safely with a backup of config.env and the database
Course outline
- 1.Depl0y administration: access, audit, updates and backupsVideo · 1 min
- 2.Roles, TOTP and the audit logLesson · 17 min
- 3.Secrets, exposure and logsLesson · 15 min
- 4.Versions, upgrades and backupsLesson · 18 min
- 5.Depl0y administration: access, audit, updates and backups: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Depl0y: an inherited panel on an end-of-life versionScenario
- 7.Final exam9 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Depl0y README (Proxmox web interface comparison, requirements, known limitations, upgrades and backups)
- Depl0y SECURITY.md (supported versions, best practices, known security considerations)
- Depl0y docs: Architecture and internals (background jobs, caching, state on disk, configuration, services)
- Depl0y docs: Feature reference
- Depl0y CHANGELOG (release history; version-specific behaviour taught in these courses)
- Depl0y INSTALL.md (after installation, update mechanism, troubleshooting, uninstall)
- Depl0y docs: Installation (supported installer vs Docker Compose path)
- Depl0y docs: Quick start (endpoints, permissions, BMCs, optional setup, troubleshooting)
- Depl0y docs: Screenshot gallery (27 views with captions)
- Depl0y .env.example
- MSP Zero: Depl0y tool page
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