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VM and Stack Deployment at Home (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by dudesss@lemmy.ca to c/homelab@lemmy.ml

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Without Installing another OS like Proxmox, does anyone know any tooling that will easily deploy VMs on my local computer and deploy software stacks on them?

I only have my desktop for hosting, but I also want to continue using it as my personal desktop.

I'd like to host game servers, cloud storage software, websites for clients. And have a portal for me (and potentially them) to be able to provision).

Edit: I'm just finding out about Apache Cloudstack which might do what I'm looking for.

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[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You can definitely run VMs or containers on your desktop system and there are a lot of ways to do that (as others have said). If it’s the automated, reproducible setup you’re after (and you are purposely avoiding docker), give a look to terraform and ansible to create and provision your software.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can terraform (or OpenTofu) be used to create local VMs as well? I always thought it was just for popular cloud infrastructure like Digital Ocean or Google Cloud.

[–] tvcvt@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I’ve only ever tinkered with it slightly on a Proxmox host, but I ran it locally when I was testing it and it was glad to setup the VMs on the same system it was on.

[–] dudesss@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

Dude, that's super cool!