I’d go with a tinymicro server instead and use proxmox with VMs and LXC containers. This type of containers is pretty much like a VM (you get a full OS and can hardly tell the difference with a VM, unlike docker). But it’s much lighter (it’s a container) and all your regular tooling like ansible etc works out of the box. Along with tarsnap or borg for backups and unattended-upgrades and it’s near set and forget (unlike, again, docker)
I went the docker route for home and I don’t recommend it. It’s too high maintenance to keep up to date, it’s over engineered for the home. I’ve since switched to proxmox and vms/lxc.
A sibling comment convinced me on tinymicro! Thanks for the seconding this!
I was hoping to keep things simple. To start with. Docker+compose on a linux image seems like only "one" system to learn and there seems to be a whole library of prebuilt docker images for most services I could want to run.
Not sure how well the "image library" translates to proxmox.
Also not sure how the Trust(images from online source) Vs Capability (roll my own secure image) balance works out.
Well, nothing says I have to keep proxmox forever so I will try it out and go from there. Thank you for your time!
I went the docker route for home and I don’t recommend it. It’s too high maintenance to keep up to date, it’s over engineered for the home. I’ve since switched to proxmox and vms/lxc.