Comment on [Proxmox] Jellyfin w/ NAS mount + iGPU passthrough
4am@lemmy.zip 6 days ago
It may be better now but I’ve always had problems with Docker in LXC containers; I think this has to do with my storage backend (Ceph) and the fact that LXC is a pain to use with network mounts (NFS or SMB); I’ve had to use bind mounts and run privileged LXCs for anything I needed external storage for.
Proxmox is about managing VMs and LXCs. I’d just create a VM and do all your docker in there. Perhaps make a second VM so you can shuffle containers around while doing upgrades.
If you plan to have your whole setup be exclusively Docker and you have no need for VMs or LXCs, then Proxmox might be a bunch of overhead you don’t need.
I use the LXCs for simple stuff that does a bare-metal type install within them, and I use the VMs for critical services like OPNSense firewall/routers. I also have a Proxmox cluster across three machines so I can live-migrate VMs during upgrades and prevent almost any downtime. For that use case it’s rock solid. It’s a great product and it offers a lot.
If you just need a single machine and only Docker, it’s probably overkill.
LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Well, the plan was to use a couple VMs for niche things that I’d love to have and many services. But if I can’t get Proxmox working as advertised, I’ll throw most of that out of the window
4am@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
The easiest solution if you want to have managed VMs IMHO is to just make a large VM for all your docker stuff on Proxmox and then you get the best of both worlds.
Abstracting docker into its own VM isn’t going to add THAT much overhead, and the convenience of Proxmox for management of the other VMs will make that situation much easier.
LXC for docker can be made to work, but it’s fiddly and it probably won’t gain you much in the long run.
Now, all these other issues you seem to be having with the Proxmox host itself; are you sure you have networking set up correctly, etc? curl should be working no problem; I’m not sure what’s going on there.
LazerDickMcCheese@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
That’s good to know at least. I was getting anxious last night thinking that I signed up for something I’d never get running. So curl is working now…not sure why it wasn’t earlier, but I’ve used it since and it is confirmed working. And networking (as in internet connectivity) is working, but now I’m struggling with the NAS mount: it was working perfectly at first, but now it’s randomly shifting between “available” and “unknown”.