The actual scripts: https://github.com/tteck/Proxmox
After poking at a couple of these, they seem like they're 50% shiny packaging and 50% one-liner bash commands.
After poking at a couple of these, they seem like they're 50% shiny packaging and 50% one-liner bash commands.
And more broadly, a lot of software could be summarised as a pretty packaging of a basic tool.
If you want things to Just Work, this is probably not for you
I have been pleasantly surprised to find that, after the initial research & setup, things still "just work!" In some cases, more reliably (and way more quietly!) than before.
But no, after the first couple hours of tinkering it Just Works.
This past week I settled in for a good solid weekend of getting a gitlab server stood up. I was looking forward to it! Imagine my disappointment when it was a single command that took half an hour to run.
Oh well, I guess it just means more time for my other hobbies.
One could definitely write them on their own.
It’s also another way to discover other packages in these categories.
Some of the LXC container settings can be a little specific and these scripts manage those we’ll most of the time with a standard install, or an advanced one is available too.
I do a quick look over of the source to make sure it’s ok. It saves me so much time and pain.
There's definitely some cool stuff here (disabling the nag screen, thank you!) but I really dislike the way it's presented.
I don't like the curl|bash very much, but mostly I think this would be far more interesting as a collection of one-liners to accomplish each task vs the current form of a curl|bash with dialogs and prompts. I think that's better for security and better for learning you should know what commands you're executing!
With docker it seems a Dockerfile is a self-contained recipe. You build it, then you run the container.
with proxmox, you sort of have to be a sysadmin. The proxmox UI helps you define the characteristics of the container, but then you have to put everything inside the container yourself without help or reproducibility.