Lifebandit666

Honestly I just think it's my general ability. I couldn't get the Docker Compose file to work in Portainer. But in all seriousness I don't think I need NC, I was just interested in what it offers.

Plex. Emby.

Yeah I don't see why not. It should be as easy as SSH in to the half top, install Docker and have it run the Portainer client then just bang Portainer on your daily driver and start throwing docker compose files at it.

Have a look at Gluetun for your VPN needs. I've basically got all my Arr in the same stack with Gluetun as the networking for the stack, then have other containers running independently that don't need the VPN, like Adguard and Homarr.

I've got a Gluetun appreciation post up that should get you started with it.

It's all your fault!

I was actively avoiding Docker too after I tried (and succeeded) getting Home Assistant running in Docker many years ago.

It seemed like a confusing mess when I did it back then and the resulting Home Assistant container ran like a dream for many years until it didn't and I had no clue how to get it working again.

I ended up just throwing Home Assistant OS on thepi and it was very very simple to set up.

Anyway that was then. This is now.

I bought a mini pc in February and installed Proxmox on it.

Initially I just wanted Home Assistant, Plex and some kind of way of populating Plex with media.

I just ran VMs with bare bones programs installed in Windows. Problem is this took a lot of RAM and was flakey.

Cut to now, where I have a Home Assistant VM, a Linux VM and an OMV VM for my NAS.

The Linux VM has a bunch of Docker containers running that do everything my Windows bare bones VM did, but better.

I can access the containers via Portainer and update them with a button press. I cannot access the VM GUI because I passed through my GPU which knackered the console in Proxmox, and that is absolutely fine, if I need to do anything in the VM I have SSH.

My Linux VM uses less RAM than my Home Assistant VM, which is amazing considering what is running on it.

Docker is where it's at! Takes a little learning but with Portainer installed it's all in one GUI instead of SSH in to create text files and folders.

Yesterday I wanted to give Immich a try. So I found a tutorial on YouTube, went into his notes and found his GitHub and in there, his Docker Compose file.

I LITERALLY JUST COPIED IT AND PASTED IT INTO PORTAINER AND PRESSED GO AND HAD IMMICH RUNNING IN MINUTES.

Now the caveat here is that I've had a few months of playing with Docker now. I've tried to get Immich running a couple times and failed in the past few months. But I watched this guy paste his code in and press go, then start talking about how it works, so I was pretty confident he had taken the time to have a working compose file.

Wall of text to say get acquainted with Portainer and try installing and playing with some stuff. Bear in mind that it probably won't work to start with and don't rely on it until you've proven it out, but tinker with it until it's working. Eventually you'll get a feeling for it and it will become simple to you.

Good to hear. I guess the advantage is this way my containers rely upon Gluetun to work, so if it stops working, the whole stack stops working.

I honestly do not know as I've never had it fail, it is a valid concern. I did have you asking about the kill switch while someone else commented to say the kill switch is great so it seems I should get you together https://lemmy.world/comment/9851407

Nice thanks for this, maybe useful when I finally get out of this carpark lol

Thanks for that, yeah it's kinda integral to an appreciation post, what is it exactly.

So what Gluetun has done has replaced all the messing around with VPNs for me. Rather than having a specific VM for VPN tasks running using Mullvads app, I can now run the VPN stuff in my VM that was previously just for clearnet things at the same time as those things, without the additional app.

I've just deleted the app and containers in the VPN VM and am repurposing it for trying out new things in Docker. Current project is Nextcloud AIO, which I'm failing at for now.

I use RDT for Lidarr too. I've had qbt set up in the past and may even do it again but for now it's fine for everything I need.

I took have set up and run Owntracks in the past and found it lacking. I can't remember why, but I do remember thinking it was a bit shit

I use CIFS aka SMB in my setup. I have OMV running multiple shares, one of which is a backup folder for Proxmox to use. I pass this through to Proxmox by adding a CIFS share to storage in data center.