i have very few services and tend to lean into virtual machines instead of containers out of habit. i have proxmox running on an old mini-pc that needs to be replaced at some point. 16GB of RAM in it, 4 cores on the CPU (it’s an i3 at 2ghz), and a 100GB SSD.

VMs and services are as follows:

• ubuntu vm
  • runs my omada controller in docker
  • used to run all of my containers in docker but i migrated them to podman
• fedora vm
  • runs several containers via podman
    • alexandrite, where i’m composing this now!
    • uptime kuma
    • redlib for browsing reddit
    • kanboard for organizing my contracting work
• dietpi in a vm to run pi-hole (migrated here when my pi zero-w cooked itself)
  • this also handles internal dns for each server so i don’t have to type out IP addresses
• home assistant HAOS vm

home assistant backs itself up to my craptastic nas and the rest of the stuff doesn’t really have any backups. i wouldn’t be upset if they died, except for my kanboard instance. i can rebuild that from scratch if needed.

i’ll be investing in a new mini-pc and some more disks soon, though.