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+# Zamba
+
+## About
+Zamba is a Toolbox for Proxmox (ZFS) admins, which fires a container with preconfigured services.
+### Inclueded services:
+- ZMB (Samba) AD member with ZFS volume snapshot support
+- mailpiler mail archive [malipiler.org](https://www.mailpiler.org/)
+- Matrix Homeserver with Element Web
+### Planned features / ideas for future releases
+- ZMB (Samba) standalone with ZFS volume snapshot support
+- ZMB (Samba) Active Directory Domain Controller
+- Nextcloud Server [nextcloud.com](https://nextcloud.com/)
+- optional Addon: Cockpit (including ZFS Manager) [cockpit-project.org](https://cockpit-project.org/)
+- check_mk RAW Edition [checkmk.com](https://checkmk.com)
+- Zabbix [zabbix.com](https://zabbix.com)
+- Abgleich control machine (ZFS Snapshot and Backup engine) [Abgleich on github](https://github.com/pleiszenburg/abgleich)
+## Usage
+Just ssh into your Proxmox machine and clone this git repository. Make sure you have installed `git`.
+### Clone this Repository
+```bash
+apt update
+apt -y install git
+git clone https://git.spille-edv.de/thorsten.spille/zamba
+cd zamba
+```
+### Configuration
+To fit your requirements, please edit the file `zamba.conf` with your favourite test editor (e.g. `vim` or `nano`).
+The required adjustments are in the LXC container section and in the section for the service you want to launch.
+For further information about the config variables, have a lokk at [CONFIGVARS.md](CONFIGVARS.md)
+### Installation
+After configuring, you are able to launch the script interactively:
+```bash
+bash install.sh
+```
+After container creation, you will be prompted to select the service to install.
+Depending on the service you will be asked some more questions durnig installation.
+
+Once the script has finished, the container is installed and running and you can continue with the service specitfic configuration.
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