Pretty much the title. I’ve seen plenty of people using proxmox and truenas but I don’t really see many homelab users running Ubuntu server or something similar? Do many people actually use it to run docker or any containers on their machines? Just curious.
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I run Debian on bare metal as my docker host.
I have Ubuntu Server running in a VM, but it’s primary use is for accessing from Windows XP or Windows 98 on my retro PCs, because Samba needs to be configured differently and is, apparently, less secure
I don’t want to say it’s the most popular Linux server distribution but it’s definitely up there. Lots of people and organisations are using it.
Since CentOS pretty much ruined their product a good number of them have moved over (already seen a few of them in the comments lol). Glad I never got much into CentOS. Debian based distros is where it is at!!!11
I do on my PoweEdge to run Redis clusters. I’m a centos refugee
Can someone please elaborate on the differences between „ubuntu server“ and „ubuntu“? I assume it is about different packages that are (or aren’t) pre installed by default. Can I assume that either installation can be adjusted to become the other by removing/adding packages? (Apt)
I just run Ubuntu Server with some docker containers. Does the job.
20 Ubuntu VMs as we speak, however 10 RHEL based VMs and 1 openSUSE VM thrown in the mix.
I use a Ubuntu VM to run some older Docker containers (from when I was first learning). I’d migrate them over but I just don’t care enough to migrate them. They’re just Minecraft and game proxy servers.
I use it with for my containers. Portainer to manage the containers and the Docker volumes are located on a zfs dataset that replicates to my truenas server. Works great.
Years ago, for a few years.
What I disliked most was distribution upgrade.
Ubuntu pacakages using non bleeding edge parts
Using repositories.
Now I use Arch Linux on all including the Server, Arcade, etc. It’s superior for so many reasons.
I run TrueNAS Scale which in turn runs two Ubuntu Server VMs with PCIe passthrough NICs.
I use Ubuntu and Photon server to run any Linux applications I need on VM’s like DNS and Grafana. I have started to use vSphere tanzu to run containers.
Loads of us run Ubuntu VMs on Proxmox.
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Me too, on proxmox.
There’s dozens of us! Dozens!
Well, that makes four of us. 😆
What? That’s five of us.
-1. Debian user.
I run them on ESXi but same type of thing
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I’m not sure if I quali as a homelabber, but Ubuntu server is definitely runnning my Nextcloud as a snap package. Once I move it to proxmox it’ll still run as an os on vm, just to run the Nextcloud.
Crap ton of them as VMs, but bare metal? One workstation and one serve station.