I’m thinking about starting a self hosting setup, and my first thought was to install k8s (k3s probably) and containerise everything.

But I see most people on here seem to recommend virtualizing everything with proxmox.

What are the benefits of using VMs/proxmox over containers/k8s?

Or really I’m more interested in the reverse, are there reasons not to just run everything with k8s as the base layer? Since it’s more relevant to my actual job, I’d lean towards ramping up on k8s unless there’s a compelling reason not to.

  • widowhanzo@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I have a pretty low power server at home (Pentium G4560), and the previous one was even slower J3160, so I don’t want to unnecessarily hog the CPU with a VM, and the few services I need at home run perfectly fine in containers.

    I run pihole, unbound, wireguard, plex, unifi controller in containers, and I run some additional services directly on the host (samba, transmission).

    I have a Windows VM on my Windows PC for work, so it’s isolated from my main rig (various VPN clients and work files etc), and if I needed some Linux stuff on my Windows PC I’d also run a VM, but more VMs also mean more updating and patching, which is much easier with containers.