Comment on Proxmox or Docker?
lucid@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day agoWhat did you find to be incompatible between proxmox and docker? I get that it’s essentially an extra layer of complexity if all you’re doing is running docker containers, but I don’t see how that makes them incompatible.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Docker in LXC can be a pain, especially when using backups as the Overlay2 filesystems don’t really jive with the way Proxmox does backups. And forget about running Docker in an unprivileged LXC.
Running in a VM is perfectly fine though; not sure what issues anyone has there. I ran on big beefy servers with 24 cores and tons of RAM though.
It was nice to be able to move my services between machines using a live migration while doing updates though; but again you have to be set up for that. My entire network was managed with twin OPNSense routers as VMs in Proxmox; they handled their own failover and so I could just shut down one at a time to run updates, even to Proxmox itself, and when it came back up then I could work on the other one. But, I wanted to learn all that and have zero downtime so the wife wouldn’t get mad every time I botched something (which, especially in the beginning, was often)
If you don’t have the money or time and just have one server box with a normal amount of RAM and disk; Proxmox is probably overkill unless you want to experiment with VMs or Linux containers. It’s an awesome product and I will sing its praises all day, but if you just want some docker containers you can make a far simpler setup; although I will say that the “overhead” is way less than you might think.
non_burglar@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That thing about docker being so badly behaved in unprivileged containers seems to be a proxmox problem, not an LXC problem, as I’ve discovered running LXC in a non-proxmox environment.
4am@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s unfortunate. I know they do change some things for both security hardening as well as for convinience of the platform, it’s a double-edged sword apparently.