I hosted multiple services on a Ubuntu server VM. I recently replaced it with a Proxmox server and I’m having troubles with finding a good organization.

I have a lot of apps running as docker compose projects, but I want something more unified that I can deploy with Ansible for example.

But for this I need to separate my actual data correctly.

So first question : What would be the best way for me to manage the data of my many services ? (I currently have 2 4TB drives and a 500Gb I will replace soon)

I found people online using a TrueNAS VM and using NFS on all other VMs.

I could also just add drives in Proxmox using LVM (it is currently set-up that way, but I would need a boot/services/configuration drive and a data drive for each VM)

Then, I need to make these services accessible from outside.

I am currently using nginx proxy manager, however I also wanted a more automatic and statically configurable solution like Traefik or Caddy. But I also want to keep the reverse proxy on a separate VM so I am not sure of the best way to link the VM with docker containers to it, since there are multiple services on it.

I thought about kubernetes or docker swarm, but I am thinking it would be more trouble that it’s worth when I could run the reverse proxy on the same docker host as the services.

I also plan on adding SSO later on.

So second question : What kind of reverse proxy setup would be best here ?

Here are the services I host :

• Jellyfin (as docker right now, but soon in a dedicated VM)
• *arr suite (docker now, soon docker in Jellyfin VM)
• Bitwarden (docker in main docker VM)
• Paperless-ngx (docker in main docker VM)
• Portainer (docker in main docker VM)
• Home assistant (as a VM)
• MonicaHq (docker in main docker VM)
• nginx proxy manager (docker in main docker VM)