Comment on Pros and cons of Proxmox in a home lab?

• Lemongrab@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If incus works for yoy, use it. Proxmox locks you out of the option to choose your base server distros.

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  • glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ah, I was wondering which one you updated and it made your containers inaccessible!

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    • Lemongrab@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sorry, misunderstood. Proxmox Free broke my containers on updating a while ago.

      Now I use Docker-style application containerizing, but I think LXC (the base technology powering Incus/LXD) is useful in a number of situations and perfectly viable for use. I think Incus-containerized applications are easier to upgrade individually (like software updates of your apps, no need to recreate the container image) and gives a closer to native experience of managing. You do lose out on automated deployment of applications from widely available image sources like docker.io, but the convenience-loss is minimal.

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      • glizzyguzzler@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Good to know Proxmox’s bad updates are more pervasive than the latest bad update.

        I have been able to install Docker in the LXC containers and pull images in with the normal commands. I do that container-in-container to get effectively rootless docker containers for stuff that I couldn’t figure out how to run rootless. So you don’t even lose out on docker if you’re determined! And as you said incus goes on any OS, you can docker just fine on the base OS of your choice and use incus for specific things!

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