Comment on anyone willing to walk a noob through getting some services running?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
What services are you looking at? TrueNAS can be good for some situations but isn’t always the best it terms of flexablity. It really depends on what you are trying to host
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
I mean I want to run a lot of things. Some of which include
Etc. None of these are things I explicitly need, I just want to mess around and learn.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
In that case I would either go with proxmox, debian or Ubuntu server with docker.
If you are wanting to do virtualization then go for proxmox but if you want to just run the services as containers I would just use Ubuntu or Debian. Once you have Ubuntu or Debian installed I would look into how to write docker compose files. There are plenty on the internet and they make setup very straight forward. If you want a web interface you can install cockpit.
Sorry to be a bringer of bad news but I believe your truenas install is going to be the limiting factor.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Thank you for that. I went back and forth for a while trying to figure out which one might work best and eventually just picked one.
Can you elaborate as to how it is limiting?
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Truenas isn’t a standard system. Its designed to be used as a NAS and lacks the ability to easy install other software. While it does have support for kubernetes and virtual machines, the UI is pretty crude and you will likely get confused and run into bugs. Don’t get me wrong I do like TrueNAS but for your setup it doesn’t make a lot of sense. This is especially true since you want to run a bunch of services that aren’t necessarily storage dependent.