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Docker on Proxmox (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Frosty-Paperclip@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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I have several docker containers, now I setup a PC with Proxmox.

Which is the best approach to run containers on Proxmox?

Reading online there are two approaches VM Vs LXC (Ubuntu I prefer).

What do you suggest?

Thanks

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[–] thekrautboy@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not ask /r/Proxmox?

In general its not recommended to run Docker inside a LXC, especially for a beginner. However plenty of people (including myself) are doing it, you just might run into a few hurdles.

If you plan on having mostly a single Docker host with your containers running, then i would suggest a VM for that.

If you want to run multiple hosts separately, then the overhead from each VM adds up and i would recommend separate LXC instead.

This gets asked often, you could simply search for existing threads.

[–] c_one@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If for example he wnats 1 vm with all docker things inside wouldnt it be better to just install drbian and rin docker inside. Instead of running a vm in promix that runs docker?

[–] xXfreshXx@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

What about monitoring like netdata? Is this recommended to run in a host docker? It's my only docker container running on host...

[–] MainstreamedDog@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Just take the tteck script for alpine docker and portainer, very lightweight. I even use one for each docker service and then just backup/restore on the full Proxmox container level.

[–] Spaceman_Splff@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have all my docker containers in a vm and then anything not docker in a lxc. For a while I didn’t have issues with docker containers in lxc and then they all stopped worked every time there as an update so I moved them to vms.