Pretty much the title. I’ve seen plenty of people using proxmox and truenas but I don’t really see many homelab users running Ubuntu server or something similar? Do many people actually use it to run docker or any containers on their machines? Just curious.

  • Fade_to_Blah@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Yea I run a few as VMs on esxi, one is just a docker service thing and another is for some critical services on the lab.

  • BenChueh@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    U know it’s much easier if you’re using TrueNAS system as a file sharing server instead of Ubuntu doing that complex SMB server setup

  • Lopoetve@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Crap ton of them as VMs, but bare metal? One workstation and one serve station.

  • krissovo@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I use Ubuntu and Photon server to run any Linux applications I need on VM’s like DNS and Grafana. I have started to use vSphere tanzu to run containers.

  • Click-Beep@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Ubuntu Server on my UniFi UAS-XG as my main HomeLab plaything, and Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi 4B with a backup PiHole for when I break the main unit but I still need DNS to Google search what I just messed up.

  • tweakybiscuit23@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Throwing in a vote of confidence for Rocky Linux, basically CentOS/RedHat with good along term support. I have that supplemental to an Ubuntu Server instance, did it as a test to run services from docker containers and never looked back.

  • Geoffman05@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used to use Ubuntu VMs on Proxmox host but I’ve switched to Debian a year or so ago.