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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.

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[–] soldersmoker@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is your system backup solution like? Having it separated seems convenient for that since you can just back up the vm storage somewhere I'm guessing?

[–] mr47@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Not OP, but similar setup (Proxmox with docker on a VM). The VM (plus a few LXCs) are backed up daily using the backup built into Proxmox, and those backups are mirrored to the cloud with rclone.

[–] klangcola@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Proxmox Backup Server: Incremental de-duplicateed image backups of the whole VM, with possibility of individual file restore. It's like magic

For the legacy bare metal system I have rsnapshots of the data folder (set it up ages ago, and never changed it)

An nginx LXC container has a single static backup of the container, with the nginx config file stored in a git repo