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Why is Unraid popular in the self-hosting community ? (jlai.lu)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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It's proprietary, after all. I understand paid is fine, but even then, it usually better be open source.

So, why is Unraid an exception ?

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[–] 6 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Off-topic, but if you want a competent Unraid alternative, then try Proxmox.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    Which is still not nearly as userfriendly as unraid.

    With unraid I can browse the community store, click install and with juste one additional click I most of the time have this service fully running. It notifies me if there is an update and I can install updates with a single click.

    With proxmox, I have yet to figure out how to update the installed services without manually ssh-ing in every single container and run a specific update command.

    Unraid is light years ahead in terms of userfriendly ux for novice users.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    I use Ranchers store for that reason. Update the chart and the whole service updates.

    Just wish they had a homesteader (this is what would call it) kind of chart catalog that had some some good defaults for homelab use. You know assume longhorn CSI, 1 to 12 node clusters, small users (1 to 20) base, etc. Pack depencies from other charts in the catalog (if you need one postgress db, reuse as much of that deployment for the next app that needs it, etc).

    You CAN do all of that now, but each app isn't really aware of each other, and you have to set the configs for your actual lab.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I am a hesitating running a VM in proxmox to run my docker services there. It doesn’t feel right to me (maybe I am wrong, what do I know…).

    I also do not understand yet how this would work in a cluster. I don’t want all the services bundled on one node (then the whole cluster thing would have been a pointless exercise haha)

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    VM nodes still let you do rolling OS updates for everything besides the hypervisor.

    I do get you. Its why I run bare metal containers on the Harvester cluster. A whole VM just feels wasteful for some of this stuff. I also have like 12 nodes (some new, some junk, some pus) though, so I keep baremetal workloads off of hypervisor/management nodes.

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