Hey everyone, I’m planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD’s.

I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I’ve tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.

Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I’m a long time Linux and BSD user and I’m tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I’d be sensible and go with Debian for… Stability?

Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?

Thank you for any hints or advice.

  • giacomo@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    15 days ago

    proxmox is awesome, but i dont think its a right fit for what you’re looking to do. if you just want to run a few podman containers, I’d probably go with a server os that is geared towards containers.

    check out fedora’s coreOS or maybe ucore from the universal blue project. it seems like they’re both good candidates for podman. i think opensuse has a similar offering in microOS.

    i recently migrated containers from an older Ubuntu server running docker to a ucore server with mainly rootless podman containers. i think I prefer ucore as updates are automated, reboots are scheduled for off hours, and the podman containers are kept updated by systemd service. and cockpit comes on the os image container, so i can poke stuff on a webpage too I guess.

    • pfr@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      3·
      15 days ago

      Thanks for this. I went down a bit of a rabbit hole today looking into proxmix, and started thinking that a Dell optiplex won’t cut it after reading how using proxmox with zfs uses more resources, plus I kept seeing people recommend ECC ram which is more expensive and is harder to come by.

      I’m look at ucore, but most install instructions for things are targeted at debian systems using apt. I guess that’s not a major hurdle though.

      Proxmox still peaks my interest, and maybe one-day when I can afford a decent setup I’ll get into it some more.

    • pfr@lemmy.sdf.orgOPEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      Do you recommend ucore or ucore-minimal?

      So installing looks a bit convoluted. How do you install uCore? Install Silverblue and then rebase to uCore?

      • giacomo@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        15 days ago

        Haha, you’re not wrong about it seeming a little extra to get installed.

        I used coreos live ISO and coreos-installer with the ignition file produced from a ucore-autorebase.butane file. I lightly edited the example butane file with the ssh keys I wanted to use, password hash, and “ucore-minimal:stable-nvidia” since I’ve got an old 1060 gpu in the server for jellyfin.