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Portainer on Debian or Proxmox? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Folks,

I have an Intel N5095 2 GHz box, with 16 GB RAM and 500 GB sitting below my desk. It's a teeny tiny box with no fan or anything.

I'm currently running Debian server on it with Portainer on top to run some *arr services. I'm thinking of running some more. But the device seems to groan under the weight of the services already running.

Was just watching a video about proxmox, and it seems to be a better solution if I don't need to run Portainer on top of an OS. Maybe it'll be lower resource usage?

So, thoughts? Should I change it up from Debian to proxmox? Or should I stick to what is already running? I am running Debian because I read somewhere that it's the lowest resource hog of all Linux server options.

Alternatively, should I stick to Debian and portainer but use it with something like podman as it might use less resources than docker-ce?

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[–] eli@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I run proxmox for my own homelab and another instance for very small services inside my LAN.

Anyway, I have gotten into docker recently and my method so far has been to spin up a LXC container of just a base OS(like Ubuntu or Alpine or whatever) and then install docker and whatever else inside that container and then run my service.

So I have one container per service. Now my problem is how to manage the docker side without having to go into each container individually. I have tried portainer but it's not clicking with me.

I've actually been trying to find a solution to just have docker on a bare metal OS install and that be my hypervisor, but I can't get a clear answer on anything, so Proxmox seems to be my only option.

Proxmox is a very solid option, but it is not "less intensive" than Debian since it is built on top of Debian. Proxmox does not install a desktop environment(it has a web GUI), so that may help with keeping resources low, but it isn't some magical solution.

I would recommend trying it 100%, there is a little bit of a learning curve getting to know Proxmox, but it's the best hypervisor I've used for homelab so far.