I will check out that community. Seems incredibly friendly and supporting!
Proxmox is something in my distant future but regardless. I will hopefully get there eventually
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LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
If you look up “Dr. Frankenstein Discord” you’ll find the community that helped me get familiar with Docker. As in, several people held my hands for about 2 weeks non-stop. I can’t tell you enough how much I love that group. But containers aren’t the only way to go.
I hear people talking about Proxmox a lot, and it seems (as far as I can tell) to be one of the easiest platforms for hosting many services one a machine. Next computer I set up, I’ll be going that route.
Regardless of how you do it, the knowledge base and skills mostly transfer like a Venn diagram. The most important pieces to get started are hardware and patience. Everything else can be solved with online teamwork
chjherzog@jlai.lu 2 days ago
Capillary7379@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Having an environment like proxmox is very handy for learning and testing. When you find something to test, spin up a clean machine and you have a safe environment to learn that can be removed after. You can also try out different distros that way.
I’d recommend setting up Incus instead however, it works fine on a desktop/laptop if you’re running a linux distro they support and don’t have a dedicated machine to use.
They also have a very good tutorial/demo that shows the basics: linuxcontainers.org/incus/try-it/
one_knight_scripting@lemmy.world 1 day ago
One more advanced hypervisor that I would recommend is Apache Cloudstack. Requires a little more networking though.