Docker or Kubernetes for my “Home Production”, Intel “Situation”, My Thoughts on NetData

9:20 I suspect they've barely scratched the surface.

I recently acquired my youngest old rig after his PC upgrade. Core i7 9700k. A big step up from the i3 6th Gen. that I was previously using for my NAS/Plex server.

After using various OS's, I decided on going with Proxmox, as this was a better fit than all the others (UnRaid, OpenMediaVault, TrueNAS, Ubuntu LTS Server with Docker).

Whilst it goes against all the recommendations, I also have the Proxmox Server itself acting as a NAS. I did a few trial runs of disaster recovery to see what would happen if the main drive failed. If the VM drive failed. etc. I learned enough to recover data untouched from all failures, so I feel pretty confident in my abilities to go with this situation for my modest home needs. I realise it's not the 'done thing', but at the very least I actually did disaster recovery trials, which is more than most do!!

I've been slowly migrating all the data from one server to my new server. And I have Plex running in a container, allocated it 6 cores, and the iGPU. I could probably drop the cores down to 2. The old CPU capped out at 3.6, whilst the new CPU can boost to 5ghz. That additional speed and the IPC improvements on the CPU made plex across the network on all devices sooo much snappier. Even on the old fire sticks it was noticeable.

Scrubbing through timelines, and just loading the video was noticeably quicker. As is adding new media to the library. Night and Day.

If you're going to install plex server, I really recommend a CPU with a high clock speed, if possible. You WILL notice a difference.

I connect to my library via NFS.

I also have a JackSparrow VM machine.

A Windows VM with PCIE passthrough of the 1070.

A PiHole ad blocker in a container.

An Apple Time Machine in a container.

And Handbrake in a container.

The latter I use in the background to convert some of the really old formats I have knocking around.

I have this automated, so I have the target directory, and the processed directory.

Proxmox has really enabled me to get the most out of this old hardware. Whilst keeping everything distinct and separate. And it's been wonderful to allocate resources to each.

I'm in now rush to have handbreak convert all those files. It can just tick away with one core, and it's done when it's done.