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VMs or containers?
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this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
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Fwiw I've been running home assistant in a docker container for a couple years without any issues
Yeah, I think the problem comes if you don't want to manually configure "Add-ons". Using this feature is only supported on their OS or using "Supervised". "Supervised" can't itself be in a container AFAIK, only supports Debian 12, requires the use of network manager, "The operating system is dedicated to running Home Assistant Supervised", etc, etc.
My point is they heavily push you to use a dedicated machine for HASS.
Yea I've been running "core" in docker-compose and not the "supervised" or whatever that's called.
It's been pretty flawless tbh.
It's running in docker-compose in a VM in proxmox.
At first, it was mostly because I wanted to avoid their implementation of DNS, which was breaking my split-horizon DNS.
Honestly, once you figure out docker-compose, it's much easier to manage than the supervised add-on thing. Although the learning curve is different.
Just the fact that your add-ons don't need to go down when you upgrade hass makes this much easier.
I could technically run non-hass related containers in that docker, but the other important stuff is already in lxc containers in proxmox.
Not everything works in containers, so having the option to spin a VM is neat.
I'm also using PCI passthrough so my home theater/gaming VM has access to the GPU and I need a VM for that.
Even if they only want to use k8s or dockers for now, having the option to create a VM is really convenient.
Yeah, I haven't missed the HASS add-ons but that's a good point