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.

    • terribleplan@lemmy.nrd.liEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think the problem comes if you don’t want to manually configure “Add-ons”. Using this feature is only supported on their OS or using “Supervised”. “Supervised” can’t itself be in a container AFAIK, only supports Debian 12, requires the use of network manager, “The operating system is dedicated to running Home Assistant Supervised”, etc, etc.

      My point is they heavily push you to use a dedicated machine for HASS.

      • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Yea I’ve been running “core” in docker-compose and not the “supervised” or whatever that’s called.
        It’s been pretty flawless tbh.
        It’s running in docker-compose in a VM in proxmox.
        At first, it was mostly because I wanted to avoid their implementation of DNS, which was breaking my split-horizon DNS.

        Honestly, once you figure out docker-compose, it’s much easier to manage than the supervised add-on thing. Although the learning curve is different.
        Just the fact that your add-ons don’t need to go down when you upgrade hass makes this much easier.

        I could technically run non-hass related containers in that docker, but the other important stuff is already in lxc containers in proxmox.
        Not everything works in containers, so having the option to spin a VM is neat.

        I’m also using PCI passthrough so my home theater/gaming VM has access to the GPU and I need a VM for that.

        Even if they only want to use k8s or dockers for now, having the option to create a VM is really convenient.