I could easily google this but it's an excuse to chat here so here I am
:) I've seen a lot of articles showing up in my feed about how great proxmox is and I haven't been bothered to look too closely into it
because what I have ain't broke, so why fix it?
But I don't know what I don't know, so what I consider 'ain't broke'
might look like chicken wire and duct tape compared to someones uber proxmox setup. Currently I use docker compose to do my quick iteration with docker containers or stacks, and then move them over to portainer
to be managed long term once they are in a good place. For dev environments I user Coder, which makes use of terraform templates to manage and version control containers.
What's the benefit of proxmox in this mix over some of the stuff I'm using? Where does it really shine?
What's the benefit of proxmox in this mix over some of the stuff I'm using? Where does it really shine?Proxmox is a Type 1 hypervisor, so it installs directly on bare metal,
It's dead simple to manage, comes with a nice web UI, and runs on pretty much anything, from an old laptop to a power-hungry 4U rack server and everything in between.
Hope this helps get your juices flowing =)
So Proxox gets installed first, before the OS? And then you have KVM's for windows/linux/whatever or LXC's for pure linux containers? I used
to run vSphere back in the day, similar to that?
Assuming it's pretty easy to have that WebUI served behind a VPN like tailscale or the like and then accessed remotely?
It does, thanks for answering. Again, well aware this would be much faster for all parties involved for me to just google or ask an AI but I'll trade efficiency for human-human BBS interaction any day of the week(and twice on sunday)
MeaTLoTioN wrote to unc0nnected <=-
It's dead simple to manage, comes with a nice web UI, and runs on
pretty much anything, from an old laptop to a power-hungry 4U rack
server and everything in between.
unc0nnected wrote to MeaTLoTioN <=-
So Proxox gets installed first, before the OS? And then you have KVM's for windows/linux/whatever or LXC's for pure linux containers? I used
to run vSphere back in the day, similar to that?
But I don't know what I don't know, so what I consider 'ain't broke' might look like chicken wire and duct tape compared to someones uber proxmox setup. Currently I use docker compose to do my quick iteration with docker containers or stacks, and then move them over to portainer to be managed long term once they are in a good place. For dev environments I user Coder, which makes use of terraform templates to manage and version control containers.
What's the benefit of proxmox in this mix over some of the stuff I'm using? Where does it really shine?
Assuming it's pretty easy to have that WebUI served behind a VPN like tailscale or the like and then accessed remotely?
Proxmox Virtual Environment is just a pre-packaged virtualization
solution with solid provisions for scheduled backups, which can be
managed via orchestators (such as Terraform anf OpenTofu).
Arelor wrote to unc0nnected <=-
If you have a working Docker solution then Proxmox is not even an alternative, because Proxmox is not a Docker platform.
That is pretty much it. For most home deployments I am sure you can
setup KVM/Qemu and do pretty much the same thing much of the time.
paulie420 wrote to Arelor <=-
It gives you more options for backing up PVE VMs, CTs and even other filesystems that aren't managed by PVE - if you need awesome backup
tools, adding a PBS 'node' to your PVE setup is a must in my opinion...
Hope this helps get your juices flowing =)
It does, thanks for answering. Again, well aware this would be much faster for all parties involved for me to just google or ask an AI but I'll trade efficiency for human-human BBS interaction any day of the week(and twice on sunday)
If you have a working Docker solution then Proxmox is not even an alternative, because Proxmox is not a Docker platform.
Not sure of the intent of this - but I *only* run docker containers on my arm proxmox cluster.
The WebUI is supposed to be accesed over a management LAN. If you can
VPN into your management LAN from outside then you are good to go. If
you are savvy you can use Let's Encrypt certificates with your internal management interface. Cool, huh?
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