

I think I ended up with a hybrid of your approaches haha. I run Proxmox with a VM running Open Media Vault, and that VM ended up hosting all my Docker apps because it has a REALLY nice interface for managing all of them!
I only have my PiHole and 3D printers on separate VMs
Downside right now is, a lot goes down if that OMV server does, so reminder to everyone (including me lol) backup lots!





OpenMediaVault is pretty rad. I run it in a VM on a ProxMox machine and it ended up doing all the Docker lifting because the GUI management is just so nice.
I do need to get more CLI-ninja with Docker eventually, but in my experience it’s a very cumbersome and fiddly process.
Unless something breaks and needs more hands-on, I feel like OpenMediaVault’s container interface completely replaces Portainer and smooths the on-ramp for newbie self-hosters.