The evolution of PegaProx from a promising management tool to a powerhouse datacenter manager (often also mentioned as the alternative of vCenter/vSphere for Proxmox environemnts) has reached a major milestone today. With the release of version 0.6.6, the development team has delivered on one of the most vocal requests from the enterprise community: the integration of centralized, industry-standard authentication. By adding support for LDAP, Active Directory (AD), and OpenID Connect (OIDC), PegaProx has officially filled the final gap for organizations looking to integrate Proxmox VE into their existing corporate identity ecosystems, including Microsoft EntraID. If you still don't know about PegaProx, you can find a great introduction in PegaProx as a Proxmox Datacenter Manager in my initial blog post. Please note that this post was based on the first alpha version before PegaProx got released!
In modern IT environments, "identity" is the perimeter. Administrators no longer want to manage siloed user databases for every tool in their stack. Version 0.6.6 transforms PegaProx into a first-class citizen in the enterprise by allowing a single authentication realm to govern the entire multi-cluster infrastructure. Whether you are using a classic on-premise Active Directory or a modern cloud-based identity provider via OIDC, PegaProx now provides a unified gateway to your Proxmox resources.
Enterprise Authentication Meets Granular Authorization
While authentication proves who you are, the real magic of PegaProx 0.6.6 lies in how it couples these external identities with its powerful internal Authorization and Tenancy system. This combination opens up a world of possibilities for complex organizational structures:
- Developer Self-Service: Create groups based on your internal development teams. Sync them via OIDC/AD and allow them to manage only their specific resources without ever seeing the underlying cluster configuration.
- Managed Reselling (Multi-Tenancy): Use the built-in tenancy support to isolate customers. Each tenant can authenticate against their own identity provider, managing their assigned VMs and storage as if they were on a private platform.
- Granular VM Access: Define roles that restrict users to specific actions—such as only starting/stopping specific VMs—ensuring that junior staff or contractors have exactly the access they need and nothing more.
This "Single Sign-On" (SSO) capability, specifically for Microsoft EntraID, removes the friction of manual user onboarding and offboarding, significantly increasing the security posture of the entire datacenter.
The Master Solution for Proxmox VE
PegaProx 0.6.6 reinforces its position as the "Master Solution" for Proxmox management. It doesn't just display data; it fixes the operational hurdles that standard Proxmox installations struggle with. By unifying several high-impact projects into one interface, PegaProx provides features that are otherwise missing in the vanilla Proxmox VE experience:
- ProxCLMC (CPU Alignment): Ensures your VMs can safely live-migrate across nodes with different CPU generations by calculating the highest common denominator.
- ProxLB (Load Balancing): Intelligently moves workloads and storage to prevent hotspots and ensure optimal hardware utilization.
- ProxSnap (Global Snapshot Management): Provides a cluster-wide view of all snapshots, making it easy to identify and clean up old data that wastes storage.
- Active Node Patching: Unlike the standard UI, PegaProx allows for direct, active security patching of nodes via SSH, streamlining the maintenance lifecycle.
Thanks to the dedicated efforts of the core team Nico Schmidt, Marcus Kellermann, and Laura Weber, along with significant upstream contributions and integration work from Florian Paul Azim Hoberg (gyptazy), PegaProx has evolved with incredible speed. It is no longer just a "view" of your clusters; it is the brain that manages them.
Conclusion: The Future of Proxmox Management
With the addition of enterprise authentication in 0.6.6, PegaProx has removed the last major barrier to entry for large-scale corporate adoption. It bridges the gap between the flexibility of Proxmox VE and the rigid security requirements of the enterprise datacenter. If you are managing multiple Proxmox clusters and need a single, secure, and intelligent control plane, PegaProx is currently the most capable solution on the market.
Ready to upgrade or start your journey? Check out the latest images and the deployment script at pegaprox.com or visit the GitHub repository to see the latest changes in action. You can also find the latest versions on my cdn.gyptazy.com (official mirror).