I see people having a small 8 gigs and 4 core system and trying to split that with something like proxmox into multiple VMs. I think that’s not the best way to utilise the resources.
As many services are mostly in ideal mode so in case something is running it should be possible to use the complete power of the machine.
My opinion is using docker and compose to manage things on the whole hardware level for smaller homelab.
Only split VMs for something critical, even decide on that if it’s required.
Do you agree?
Main advantage in my opinion is being able to easily backup and restore a VM and have other out of the box features linke point in time snapshots, firewall, hardware pass through. This I am talking about Proxmox.
Now that being said I don’t use VMs to run my self hosted services, I used to, but migrated all to LXC, which runs docker.
Some services get their own LXC as they are critical like DNS.