I’ve been running Proxmox for well over a year now and have it installed on four systems. Recently I’ve been thinking about what I would do if I had to restore from a catastrophic failure. It got me thinking about simplifying and moving to something like Ubuntu. Ubuntu wouldn’t be opinionated about me running docker containers on the host (I currently run them in a VM) and I could ditch LXC.
I feel like Proxmox has become a pet and I really want cattle. The dream would be Ubuntu configured via ansible.
Im also using proxmox’s built in backup on the VMs and LXCs even though everything is on zfs. It feels rather duplicative.
I learned on vanilla Ubuntu in the first place, and I wanted to like Proxmox but it always felt far more like it was getting in my way than it was helping.
Look into virt-manager for managing your KVM VMs on vanilla Ubuntu. Really nice tool.
Concur with this advice. I’ve been using virt-manager in this way with both Ubuntu server and workstation on a number of systems: does the job, no real problems. Maybe someday it will be fully functional with Bhyve hypervisor too
I’ve tried both Proxmox and TrueNAS, went back to plain Fedora with Cockpit and ZFS installed. Cockpit is a really competent and underappreciated project and there’s even a decent ZFS management module for it.
As for switching to cattle, I’ve started migrating my homelab to bootc based images from Universal Blue project. I already have my OS customizations in git and images built by a CI pipeline. I haven’t been this excited since I’ve discovered virtual machines.
