Subj : Re: What's the hype with Proxmox?
To   : unc0nnected
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Sat Aug 02 2025 20:02:54

On 01 Aug 2025, unc0nnected said the following...
 
 un> I could easily google this but it's an excuse to chat here so here I am
 un> :)  I've seen a lot of articles showing up in my feed about how great
 un> proxmox is and I haven't been bothered to look too closely into it
 un> because what I have ain't broke, so why fix it?  
 un> 
 un> But I don't know what I don't know, so what I consider 'ain't broke'
 un> might look like chicken wire and duct tape compared to someones uber
 un> proxmox setup.  Currently I use docker compose to do my quick iteration
 un> with docker containers or stacks, and then move them over to portainer
 un> to be managed long term once they are in a good place.  For dev
 un> environments I user Coder, which makes use of terraform templates to
 un> manage and version control containers.
 un> 
 un> What's the benefit of proxmox in this mix over some of the stuff I'm
 un> using?  Where does it really shine?  

Proxmox is a Type 1 hypervisor, so it installs directly on bare metal, no OS in the way. It's great for clustering too, making it easy to spin up a multi-node virtualisation setup without much faff.

It supports both KVM for full-fat virtual machines and LXC for lightweight Linux containers, so you can mix and match depending on what you're running. If you want to go all-in, you can even use Ceph across nodes to pool storage, meaning your VMs and containers live in a shared, resilient disk cluster.

It's dead simple to manage, comes with a nice web UI, and runs on pretty much anything, from an old laptop to a power-hungry 4U rack server and everything in between.

Hope this helps get your juices flowing =)

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