Hello everyone, My home server (intel nuc6) died on me recently, I set it to be used as my home server using OpensSUSE Leap with the following services:

  • NFS server
  • Sftp over ssh for remote file transfers and I was looking for a faster alternative for local transfers (tftp maybe)
  • Qbittorrent
  • Aria2
  • Emby
  • I was experiencing with nextcloud then pfsense after.
  • Definitely an office suite and a few nextcloud addons.

I have no alternative machine ATM to use it as a replacement but I plan to re-install everything on a VM (Virtualbox or Qemu/libvirt) on my Desktop, I have no experience with containers, but I think installing each service in a countainer would make it easier to move everything later to my new home server.

Would using debian or opensuse and use docker? Maybe even proxmox? or should I just stick with installing everything directly on my distro with no containers? I would love to know your opinion about the best approach.

Edit: I’m containerizing, I like to keep my setup simple, no OSes vertualization since I will be using a 7th or 8th gen low power minipc for my next server (Intel NUC, Hp mini, dell micro or lenovo tiny). I will use proxmox in the VM to get confortable with it and I think the web UI might be easier to use than SSHing to the VM. Later on the new server I will mostly use debain+docker (opensuse leap’s futur is cloudy atm) I would still love your suggestions and any guide/tutorial that you think is helpful to read/watch. Thanks everyone.

  • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I’m very happy with proxmox. It was easy to learn, the community is great, and at it’s plain Debian under the hood.

    If I ever rebuild it, I might consider a single VM for all of my docker services. As it stands, I have 5 or 6 VMs running one docker container each. Being new to docker, I wanted as much isolation as I could get in case I borked something. I understand it well enough now that I’d use portainer or something.

    My next idea is an LXC running a desktop. I have a 3060 for transcoding and I can share that to as many lxcs as I want. There are security implications with lxc, but again there is lots of material on how to do it. If you have a GPU you can pass through whole hog, it’s maybe better or easier to do a VM instead.

    • mhz@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      If you would please, why not run the containers on top of Proxmox directly instead of in a VM on top of Proxmod?

      • thetanis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        This actually isn’t a supported method. You don’t want to install anything on top of Proxmox as you run the risk of it being auto removed on an upgrade. You should make a VM and run Docker on that VM.

      • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Because I’m new to docker. You’re right - that’s gotta be more efficient but I’ve got plenty horsepower.

        • seaQueue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Or inside an LXC container, both should be fine. LXC is a bit more complicated to setup but has lower overhead cost.