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Benefits of Proxmox VE vs. libvirt/KVM? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[โ€“] kitanokikori@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Home Assistant is a good example - its recommended installation is a VM

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Benefits of Proxmox VE vs. libvirt/KVM? (alien.top)
 

Are there any benefits of running Proxmox and virtualizing everything, vs having a host OS and running Docker and libvirt to host VMs for services that need it? I know that Proxmox does some storage management etc, but it seems like I could get everything it does with a well-managed host OS + ZFS/btrfs and using virtualization tools

Why is starting with Self-hosting so daunting? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[โ€“] kitanokikori@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

If you don't want to deal with these things and it's just you or maybe a few others, here's the easy way:

  • Define the services for each host (i.e. physical + virtual machine) in a single Docker Compose file. You can even put all of these docker-compose files in a single Git repo

  • Install Tailscale on all your machines - this is really easy and will let you securely access everything without having to forward ports or worry about the attack surface of the public web

  • Set up something like Heimdall or https://github.com/tailscale/golink to have easy to use shortcuts for your services

This gets you out of SSO signin, certificates, reverse proxy setups, all the things that are (understandably!) complex and annoying to set up