I’m thinking about starting a self hosting setup, and my first thought was to install k8s (k3s probably) and containerise everything.
But I see most people on here seem to recommend virtualizing everything with proxmox.
What are the benefits of using VMs/proxmox over containers/k8s?
Or really I’m more interested in the reverse, are there reasons not to just run everything with k8s as the base layer? Since it’s more relevant to my actual job, I’d lean towards ramping up on k8s unless there’s a compelling reason not to.
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”, which to me is most of the point of running HASS at all. If I wanted to manually set up all the add-ons I wouldn’t have much use for HASS. Add-ons are 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.
Yeah, I haven’t missed the HASS add-ons but that’s a good point