I wanted to shared my enthusiasm, which makes me feel like a little boy (despite me being 50+) fascinated by how such complex systems can be managed so easily by novices. I started using Proxmox recently. I had a machine running one VM with various docker images installed. But NVMe was tiny. So I setup another node and got it to share the same NFS share on the NAS, where I had saved full backups of the VM. Once added the NFS share to the new node (with a bigger ZFS local partition) I simply restored the VM from the NFS share that had been backed up from the original node. It seemlessly imported and started. Then I cloned on the new node so that I could get it on the new ZFS partition. Now the next task is to get a bigger NVMe on the original machine, install Proxmox from scratch, and add to cluster so that it shared the backup NFS share. I just then need to understand how to get HA up and running so that VMs are always synced flawlessly. Proxmox is super brilliant. I feel like I have a data center at home :-) I could not imagine this system was so flexible and relatively easy to use. The people that deliver and contribute to this stuf are super cool. A couple of proxmox nodes, a Truenas scale NAS and a good backup strategy and your data is really safe and rock solid … I hope :-)

  • flandish@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    how does it compare to docker and a directory of /app/docker-compose.yml files? i just have not yet tried it.

    • youmaynotknow@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      So, in my case at least, having services spread across LXC containers and VMs, instead of various dockers stacks directly under on host, allows me to provide each service with its own internal IP address as opposed to having to worry about setting up 2 services with the same port because I can’t remember I was already using that port. It’s just cleaner that way.

      Additionally, I get to create containers with the specific needs for each service to run comfortably.

      It also allows for easier deployment and testing without much danger of ruining the host in something like CasaOS for example. If I have to make some adjustments to the host machine to make a docker stack run better, have more accesses, etc., I can have at it without fear that those changes could affect other docker stacks in the same host, because all hosts are contained.

      Then there’s the ease of management and deploying fully functional services with one line in the CLI of the host.

      After running UnRaid, OMV, CasaOS and a few others, Proxmox has been the one system that is just so intuitive that I don’t really have to think about it much. For the most part, deployments of pretty much anything just work.