debian very simple an classic but i started using bsds recemtly
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A friend recommended me OpenSuse MicroOS, and it has been a great experience!
It's a atomic OS designed to be just enough to run containers and it does it perfectly. It updates and reboots itself automatically so I never have to worry about it.
IMO, perfect for a home environment, just wish the documentation was better.
I tried MicroOS for a while now and I don't know if it was my fault but I did not work so smoothly all the time. Maybe because the machine was turned off for a few days in a row. But a couple of times I just couldn't ssh into the machine or it would not start up at all. Luckily ,ou can roll back and I used that to copy my docker volumes and compose files over. I think about trying NixOS next.
Debian on the servers, Diet-Pi on the SBC's, all containerized.
Rocky Linux. Been using debian but I like firewalld a bit more than ufw, and I don't trust myself enough to let myself touch iptable.
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I run several different ones, Debian is the most, Ubuntu server runs a few and I have a couple of truenas scale instances simply because they have run truenas for years and work well. One is local network only, another is available but is used for storage and storage alone via s3/minio and sftp and duplicati
archlinux + podman / libvirtd + nomad (libvirt and docker plugins) + ansible / terraform + vault / consul sometimes
UPD:
archlinux - base os. You never need change major version and that is great. I update core systems every weekend.
podman / libvirtd - 2 types of core abstractions. podman - docker containers management, libvirtd - VM management.
nomad - Hashicorp orcestrator. You can run exec, java application, container or virtual machine on one way with that. Can integrate with podman and libvirtd.
ansible - VM configuration playbooks + core system updates
terraform - engine for deploy nomad jobs (docker containers. VMs. execs or something else)
Vault - K/V storage. I save here secrets for containers and VMs
consul - service networking solution if you need realy hard network layer
As a result, I'm not really sure if it's a simple level or a complex one, but it's very flexible and convenient for me.
UPD2: As a result, I described the applications level, but in fact it is 1 very thick server on AMD Epic with archlinux. XD By the way, the lemmy node from which I write is just on it. =) And yes, it's still selfhosted.
Ubuntu Server. It just works.
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