I agree with this, though I think a lot of people don’t differentiate between operating system containers like LXC provides and application containers like docker provides.
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ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 months agoYou talk like there is not in between containers and VMs. You can use both.
Cerothen@lemmy.ca 3 months ago
jjlinux@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
What he said. 👏
fishpen0@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I built my recommendation around the likelihood this person is already using docker and therefore already has containers that would be extremely easy to run without unraid. There would be less lift to use the same config files and volume mounting they are already using.
Operationally though I would never run vms and containers in the same orchatrated system. Look at what they are asking to do. Why would you run sonarr as a container and radarr as a vm. Obviously they are going to end up just doing one or the other
ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
No, that would make no sense and is obviously not what i meant.
But you could separate the arr stack from things like pihole with a vm. For example you could pin one thread to that VM so you will not bottleneck your DNS when you are doing heavy loads on the rest of the system. This is just one example what can be done.
Just because you do not see a benefit, does not mean there is none.
Also, VMs are not “heavy” thanks to virtualization technology built into modern hardware, VMs are quite light on the system. Yes they still have overhead but its not like you are giving up big percentages of your potential performance, depending on the setup.