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I have a Synology DS923+ as my NAS which currently runs Plex, Immich and a couple other things.

I also have a Intel NUC (8th gen) which has Proxmox on it which mainly does PiHole and HomePage. I would like to use the NUC for PiHole, Immich, Plex, HomePage and Home Assistant.

Is Proxmox the best system to use for these applications? Would it be easier to just install Debian and Docker and run everything through containers on one OS instead of splitting them all up into LXC or VMs?

I would also like the convenience of easily updating containers through a GUI. I am not afraid of SSH and CLI but it's nice to go to a browser address and see everything in one place. Kind of like how DSM7 is set up on Synology.

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[–] tko@tkohhh.social 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think this is just a terminology difference. The documentation says that "Add Ons" are not supported in Container and Core, but "Add Ons" means the easy button you press to install those services. All of those Add On services are just containers that HAOS manages for you. Every single one of them can be set up as a container manually and function the same as the official "Add Ons."

I don't know for sure, but I wonder if the reason for this is that it's not technically possible for a container to manage other external containers. Does anybody know about this?

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 1 points 6 hours ago

You can run docker in docker. I do that all the time (but via scripts so I know it does docker in docker, but I don't know how they do that).

But again, I wasn't even trying to run HA in docker, I was running in a VM container and still the above is refused by default.