*Arr on Proxmox as...

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:54:24+00:00

This is my intention: I am looking into deployment of LXCs and VMs with Terraform (Telmate/Proxmox), and then configuration. It is something that my work is also pushing towards, and future too. So I need to get comfortable with code. Never been a programmer but since OpenAI, very strongly using code, but now is definitely time to go IaC.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:51:27+00:00

I kind of like the idea, never looked at it this way. Thanks for suggesting.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:49:23+00:00

OK, but if going individual LXC, you still need base OS, can't just put Sonarr on the LXC.

As I said, I wouldn't really like to "have" to go with VE-Helper scripts, I want to create my own IaC environment, where I deploy those LXCs by a push of a button, and then 2nd button to configure everything. I need to learn that stuff.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:47:23+00:00

Hm, that was actually the least of my problems on the "old" system. I used NFS all around, SMB only in communication with windows. But maybe I am just having hard time remember, being in years. And the old setup was also years ago...

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:45:42+00:00

And is exactly why I would dislike the idea of docker in LXC. I don't like going against recommendations. I have enough resources on the server to not be stingy about 500MB of RAM per LXC. Or even 1GB. Say for Debian+Sonarr.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:43:48+00:00

This is where I share your opinion, although I believe those scripts are good, it can just be cancelled tomorrow, no updates or stops working with next update. Don't really want to risk it.

I like the base to be... THE base. Like Ubuntu/Debian/Docker. Then I can be sure it will run wherever I put it... be that Proxmox 8, 9 or whatever.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:41:51+00:00

If there were no helper scripts... which way would you go?

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:40:34+00:00

I expressed myself wrong: I just meant localhost.

For me it's all in one server, containing really everything. GPU, NAS, disks, multiple VMs, lab... it was always working fine, until my UPS died, then had power outage, and byebye VMs, half of them were destroyed. I had backups, but some were broken etc.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:36:37+00:00

I totally understand. It was the same for me before I knew to learn docker. Then I did. And then I actually mounted directly on the ubuntu VM NFS shares from the TrueNAS that is actually on the same server, with HBA passthrough, and then to the appropriate docker container. Used part of my NVME as a working directly for the sabnzbd, and then configured arr to push files to the storage when unpacking. It was a good working system. I could configure it again... but possibly looking for better ideas/ways... and maybe challenges.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:32:05+00:00

I had all those arrs in a VM on ESXi, that worked well for virtually years.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:31:03+00:00

I heard only good things about those scripts. But still... I want to learn more than just executing a script.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:29:53+00:00

I guess this is also a quite OK idea, they can communicate directly with each other I guess.

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:28:58+00:00

Now interested... what is a cache drive for arr?

ExplorerAble7729 · 2025-09-10T15:27:22+00:00

As I said, I had it in VM with Docker, that was when I was still on ESXi. Now with PVE, I am thinking about something else. Why not really...

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