I purchased a NUC with 32 GB memory, 512 SSD and AMD 8 core processor. I already have a NAS.

I was wondering how do you guys use NUC? My mostly workload are containers.

Do you install proxmox on NUC itself and run VMs

OR

Just install a Linux on NUC and use it as a docker host?

Suggestions please?

Appreciate your advice, thank you

  • Digital_VoodooBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’m seeing many people here in the comments installing Ubuntu… Am I the alien one for going with Debian?

    I’ve had issues with Ubuntu on my VPSes a few years ago, and replaced it with Debian and everything has been smooth since then. I thought I’d slap it on the NUC too… Am I missing something not going the Ubuntu way?

  • AnxiouslyPessimisticBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I run windows server on it with VMware hosting multiple VMs. It’s not the most efficient OS for it obviously but I’m a heavily window background engineer and like to tinker. My VMs are a home assistant dedicated box and an Ubuntu VM for docker containers

  • sk1nT7BEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Proxmox > Ubuntu VM > Docker

    I bind mount my NAS via /etc/fstab and store all docker bind volumes there. Essy like that.