Needing advice on a new Proxmox setup
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LelouBil · 2023-11-29 16:37

I hosted multiple services on a Ubuntu server VM. I recently replaced
it with a Proxmox server and I'm having troubles with finding a good
organization.

I have a lot of apps running as docker compose projects, but I want
something more unified that I can deploy with Ansible for example.

But for this I need to separate my actual data correctly.

So first question : What would be the best way for me to manage the
data of my many services ?
(I currently have 2 4TB drives and a 500Gb I will replace soon)

I found people online using a TrueNAS VM and using NFS on all other
VMs.

I could also just add drives in Proxmox using LVM (it is currently
set-up that way, but I would need a boot/services/configuration drive
and a data drive for each VM)

Then, I need to make these services accessible from outside.

I am currently using nginx proxy manager, however I also wanted a more
automatic and statically configurable solution like Traefik or Caddy.
But I also want to keep the reverse proxy on a separate VM so I am not
sure of the best way to link the VM with docker containers to it,
since there are multiple services on it.

I thought about kubernetes or docker swarm, but I am thinking it would
be more trouble that it's worth     when I could run the reverse proxy
on the same docker host as the services.

I also plan on adding SSO later on.

So second question : What kind of reverse proxy setup would be best
here ?

Here are the services I host :
- Jellyfin (as docker right now, but soon in a dedicated VM)
- *arr suite (docker now, soon docker in Jellyfin VM)
- Bitwarden (docker in main docker VM)
- Paperless-ngx (docker in main docker VM)
- Portainer (docker in main docker VM)
- Home assistant (as a VM)
- MonicaHq (docker in main docker VM)
- nginx proxy manager (docker in main docker VM)

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tehnomad · 2023-11-30 10:11

I use a ZFS pool for my data and a combination of LXCs and Docker in
an LXC to run my services. Proxmox is flexible enough that you can
pretty much get any configuration to work. I even have my Intel iGPU
passthrough set up to my Docker LXC to my jellyfin docker container.
Caddy and Authelia are on one LXC for reverse proxy and
authentication, and I can point it to my Docker LXC by its IP address.
I use bind mounts to mount folders on my ZFS pool to the LXCs/Docker.

One advantage of Caddy running in Docker is you can use the [caddy-
docker-proxy](https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy)
module to automatically generate a Caddyfile from Docker labels of
your containers.

I started my ZFS pool from scratch with new hard drives. If you want
to reuse your existing ones without wiping your data, you may want to
look in to MergerFS.

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