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Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 3 weeks agoYou can pry proxmox from my cold dead hands.
I do sometimes dream of running everything in Docker though for how easy it is to update. I’ve got the community scripts running and still it’s a bit of a maintenance job.
A TrueNAS + Docker machine is pretty tempting. If I were to migrate, that’s where I’d go.
I was truenas on bare metal for the first year or so, but now I run a truenas VM in proxmox, then use those pools as mounts onto the proxmox. it is really cool!
Until I was in the middle of figuring out how to automate backups of my vms, which paused TrueNas, which was the destination of the backup, was a fun 20 minutes getting it all back running this evening lol
I used proxmox to set up my ZFS pools and use bind mounts. It’s fine, I’m sure it’s a “grass is greener” thing.
Home labbing is a winter hobby, so in the summer months I hate the time spent updating all the machines when I could be outside.
If I had purely Docker set up, in winter I’d be complaining that “everything is too simple” and “I want more control” etc.
hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
After having my dinky homelab machine on proxmox for a couple years, since the start of the year I am now running basically everything under a clean Debian system using incus and docker on the individual lxc guests.
Incus has completely replaced proxmox for me and it’s so much easier to reason about (for me at least) that I wanted to maybe point your cold hands in that direction too ;)
gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
What you’re describing sounds pretty much exactly like how I use Proxmox at this point (everything in LXCs, most just running docker on Alpine) and I’ve been wanting to make the switch to Incus for a while. Did you migrate your LXCs over from Proxmox? I’m a little worried about how painful that process might be.
hoppolito@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
I used the recommended migration tool and it worked okay for many containers but iirc the docker ones had to have one of the security options manually changed in their config which didn’t transform properly with the tool (maybe nesting enable?).
May very well have changed in the meantime or I only made a mistake, that was in my experimentation phase.
Ultimately, I did rebuild my instances from the ground since I also switched file system, and to make better use of incus profiles (e.g. one with docker provisioned, one with monitoring and so on) so I couldn’t give you a long-term migration review.
For me that was (relatively) painless by just migrating the docker volumes in place and rebuilding the stacks, of course ymmv.
If you decide on migrating and stumble upon issues don’t hesitate to hit me up - I’m only an amateur but maybe I can still help!