[kwlug-disc] Docker Host Appliance

[Andrew Sullivan Cant]

(FYI I am going to say some, but not from my own experience, so I am 
happy to be corrected. :) )

Is this was Proxmox is for?
   https://www.proxmox.com/en/

I have not used, but other people in the LUG have used it:
   https://kwlug.org/search/node?keys=proxmox

Listening to the "Self-Hosted" podcast recently, I think they have also 
mentioned Proxmox working well for VMs and containers.
   https://selfhosted.show/

Or would that be doing the same thing that XCP-NG is doing?



Can I ask what hardware you installed TrueNAS Scale on?

My home storage is on a little DNS-323, with 2 hard drives, which works 
pretty well but I feel like one day it is going to die and not come 
back. I some point I need to start planning for a replacement.

TrueNAS or OpenMediaVault, look like interesting possible FLOSS NAS 
management software. I don't know how OMV would handle VM/container images.


Andrew

On 2023-01-07 02:45, Chris Irwin via kwlug-disc wrote:
> After spending the last few decades happily doing home server work the 
> hard way (manually managed servers & VMs), I've finally got tired/lazy 
> enough to start looking at simplifying to pre-packaged solutions.
> 
> Migrated my NAS server to TrueNAS Scale, and migrated my VM host to 
> XCP-NG. Both seem to work well, are easy to manage, and "just work" in 
> the background to do what you want: Host Files, or Host VMs.
> 
> Now I'm looking at containers. I've done some experimentation with 
> podman & docker, and think it would make sense to migrate some of my 
> services, away from dedicated (manual) Virtual Machines.
> 
> However, *what do I host them on?*
> 
> I really don't want to just install docker manually on another 
> manually-managed install of Fedora/etc.
> 
> TrueNAS Scale has a fairly decent, if somewhat minimal docker host 
> built-in, accessible through the web interface. Home Assistant seems to 
> have one as well (though catered to their own ecosystem).
> 
> Surely there's some simple container-host OS that doesn't require me to 
> architect the whole system from scratch, manage my own updates, etc?
> 
> Is my search-foo failing, or is everybody really rolling their own 
> container hosts?
>