Comment on Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoMaybe for the initial setup, but nothing is more repeatable than automation. The more manual steps you have to build your infra, the harder it is to recover/rebuild/update later
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You automate the VM deployments.
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
if you’re automating the creation and deployment of vms, and the downstream operating systems, and not doing some sort of HA/failover meme setup… proxmox makes things way more complicated than raw libvirt/qemu/kvm.
theorangeninja@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Can you please elaborate on this? I am currently using MicroOS and think about NixOS because of quick setup. But also about Proxmox and NixOS on top. Where would libvirt fit in in this scenario?
Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If you ran a raw Ubuntu/fedora/whatever, you can use qemu/libvrt to run small virtual machines as required. You start and stop them with virsh, define them with simple xml files, and can easily automate the creation/destruction of them if desired.