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Have you thought about running proxmox rather than Debian? I found it to be useful for managing/tracking/backups of containers.
I tried Proxmox but found it way overkill for home use. I run ~50 Docker containers and I love Docker for its ease of use. Proxmox is an order of magnitude more complicated.
How do you manage backups? One big benefit of Proxmox is running containers in vms and easily snapshot/backup/restore whole vms.
"Backups?"
Yes. It's just a higher level of efficiency, portability, snapshots and backups.
Hehe tbh I only run 5 😅 I found it useful when I had to diagnose some cpu hogging off one of the containers and the ease of backups. Even though have not needed it yet.
50 containers...
I hope I don't go that crazy.
I'd need a WebUI at that point I can monitor from a Workstation.
I was probably exaggerating when I said 50.
I just counted the icons on my dash. 42.
That's still pretty accurate!!
I eventually intend to start some funny stuff I wanted a full OS for.
If I shift my end goal to run in a container then that would make more sense.
I initially went for Debian because I had a deadline for us to get back to gaming together.
I've seen loads of people use proxmax. As a windows admin I wanted a OS as a stepping stone.
I run Brazzite on my gaming rig and mint on my daily driver laptop now. Getting there.
Honestly I left proxmox/virtualization OSes a while back for simple RHEL. I have Docker for most everything and the few things I need full virt for the features Cockpit provides are more than enough. If I ever get back into clustering I'll look at proxmox again.
If you want a webui for the debian server that gives you logs, services, ssh terminal and more then I can recommend checking out Cockpit
https://cockpit-project.org/
If you decide you want to you can install KVM/Qemu on the debian host to get into full virtualization that way. The webui can be used to configure and manage the VMs too with https://github.com/cockpit-project/cockpit-machines
edit: Cockpit also has a Docker manager, though I feel it isn't full featured yet. I mostly used it to stop and start dockers from my phone.
https://github.com/chrisjbawden/cockpit-dockermanager
Totally fair. I also started with Debian for a Minecraft server, at the request of my partner. I might try out Icarus, is it cross platform?
It's worth noting that Proxmox uses Debian. It's essentially a collection of Debian packages, and you can install Proxmox on top of an existing Debian system: https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Install_Proxmox_VE_on_Debian_13_Trixie
Yeah I thought proxmax didn't handle containers well. Main reason I'm skipping it for now.
Good to know I can stack it on debian though.
Proxmox with community scripts LXCs is crazy
The guy who originally started this died just recently :(