But for a single home-server setup it seemed like the best option to me. I know Docker has been around for a really long time now and isn't really in vogue in the tech sphere these days because of k8s and other solutions for managing/scaling distributed container ecosystems. This required lots of notes regarding where configuration was stored, what changes were made to the default configuration, and just didn't seem optimal. I needed to create scripts on each container OS to automate updates and configuration was also spread inconsistently in random folders on each container.
My main problem was that management of containers and applications was too isolated. While I was happy with this solution and ran things this way for over 2 years, there were still some problems. I no longer needed to worry about conflicting dependencies, I could backup a container before performing a major update to an application, and bind mounts allowed for easy sharing of data between services. So I wiped the OS drive, installed Proxmox and started creating LXC containers for each service and any related add-ons. r/homelab seemed to be big fans of virtualization and Proxmox was often recommended since there's a free community edition. So I began looking around for better solutions.
Multiple Python versions we needed, Ubuntu updates were scary (a jump from PHP 5 to PHP 7 left me with lots of troubleshooting to get Owncloud working after an upgrade), and I had no good backup scheme. So I started installing more things, but this left me with an uneasy feeling. This worked well as I could just copy any ripped media to the server via Owncloud.īut this left the server sitting idle most of the time and there were other services I was wanting to try out, like Home Assistant. So I installed the latest LTS Ubuntu Server, Plex Media Server, and OwnCloud and called it good for a while.
When I got my first server, I knew I wanted to go Linux instead of Windows because of its light weight and I really wanted to learn more about Linux. Little did I know this would send me down a giant rabbit hole of learning, trials, and fun. Several years after that, my employer was upgrading workstations, so I paid $20 to bring home one of the old machines to take over Plex duties and run a few other things. So I downloaded and setup Plex Media Server on my gaming PC and began ripping my DVDs and serving them up to my Chromecast. Many years back, the cheapo DVD player that my wife and I owned kicked the bucket and I wasn't too keen on buying another one because I could already see the writing on the wall for physical media.
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