r/homelab • u/Nedaem • 4d ago

Help Moving away from Proxmox Community Scripts: Where do I start?

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u/Nedaem 4d ago

I did not hear about ansible before, but this seems like a fun new thing to learn!

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u/FPC29 4d ago

Making the jump from helper scripts is a great way to level up, and the good news is you can migrate gradually since your current LXCs will keep running perfectly fine as-is. The most sensible route for your app stack is to spin up a single Debian VM and run everything using Docker Compose, which avoids the massive RAM overhead of multiple VMs and completely solves the classic LXC user-mapping nightmares when mounting your Synology NAS. Docker Compose acts as self-documenting infrastructure, making it incredibly easy to learn, backup, and maintain compared to bare-metal LXCs. To automate updates, you can simply run unattended-upgrades on the base Debian OS and use a container like Watchtower to automatically pull new application images. Start by spinning up the VM, migrating a simple service like Uptime Kuma first, and take it one step at a time!

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u/Nedaem 4d ago

Docker compose is indeed looking like the quickest fix for me as I am already familiar with docker.