ProxMox Setup advice - HA, Plex, Sonarr, etc.

Mzezman said:
Was running my Plex + *arr suite in an Ubuntu VM on Proxmox. Something happened now Plex wont start - says the service is masked... tried a few items to resolve with no success. Short of uninstalling and reinstalling what can i do? If it comes to reinstalling should i redo it in Ubuntu VM or another mechanism - in a docker in TrueNAS? In a docker in CasaOS (both TrueNAS and Casa are already running)? Other install options?
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Have you tried

systemctl unmask <service name>?
 
The only other thing is to unlink the service

Go to

Code: 
cd /lib/systemd/system

Then look for the, I think plexmediaserver.service, or look for any file called plex, then

Code: 
unlink plexmediaserver.service

Then re-enable it

Code: 
systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service

Then start the service and check status.
 
Mzezman said:
should i redo it in Ubuntu VM or another mechanism - in a docker in TrueNAS? In a docker in CasaOS (both TrueNAS and Casa are already running)? Other install options?
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Tbh - I migrated all my *arr services and just about anything else I could into dockers,next on the list is Plex so that's my recommendation unless a specific service needs absolutely every bit of hardware with zero overheads
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oldBastard said:
The only other thing is to unlink the service

Go to

Code: 
cd /lib/systemd/system

Then look for the, I think plexmediaserver.service, or look for any file called plex, then

Code: 
unlink plexmediaserver.service

Then re-enable it

Code: 
systemctl enable plexmediaserver.service

Then start the service and check status.
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Well what do you know - another restart and the service came up by itself..... mmmm

I'm still gonna look into moving away from the VM for these services though
 
PsyWulf said:
Tbh - I migrated all my *arr services and just about anything else I could into dockers,next on the list is Plex so that's my recommendation unless a specific service needs absolutely every bit of hardware with zero overheads
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Was the migration a completely new install or are there tools to move services into docker ? Docker, like kubernetes, still confuses the heck out of me
 
Mzezman said:
Was the migration a completely new install or are there tools to move services into docker ? Docker, like kubernetes, still confuses the heck out of me
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Depends,some programs can do a backup and restore,or a config file
Docker's really just 1 step up from a VM - tools like Portainer make it a breeze to manage too
 
PsyWulf said:
Depends,some programs can do a backup and restore,or a config file
Docker's really just 1 step up from a VM - tools like Portainer make it a breeze to manage too
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Thanks - will look into spinning up Portainer and then setting up the containers
 
Mzezman said:
Thanks - will look into spinning up Portainer and then setting up the containers
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Most challenging for me was getting used to needing to mount folders to paths on the docker host - then passing them to the containers as bind mounts,i'm used to just using \\shares on Windows

Now I have all my config and bind folders in /home/ and Duplicati backing up those folders,recovering after a failure is as simple as recovering the folders and recreating the docker containers and pointing them to the old folders
 
Can’t Proxmox run Docker containers natively?

I guess I just assumed it would be a thing by now.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Oh dear…one of those backing the wrong horse efforts.
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Nothing wrong with LXC or LXD containers. They are system containers and intended for a different use case (generally more like lightweight VM's) from application containers such as Docker. Originally Docker used LXC under the hood before they developed their own runtime.

System containers can also be used in conjunction with Docker or Kubernetes so if you wanted to do something in your homelab like set up a Swarm, a k8s cluster or something like Openstack, you could do that on a single host with less overhead than using VM's.

Sure, Docker was the killer app of containers and LXC/LXD are the unpopular red-haired step child in comparison but they have their places.
 
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