Hey everyone, I’m planning on setting up my first home server this year. Going to use an old Dell Optiplex with a couple 4tb SSD’s.
I only need two services running. Jellyfin and immich. I’ve tested this out in a debian netinstall VM and it works.
Just looking for helpful hints or advice etc. I’m a long time Linux and BSD user and I’m tempted to try it out using Alpine Linux or even NetBSD (my daily driver os) but I thought I’d be sensible and go with Debian for… Stability?
Anyway, immich is run in a container whereas jellyfin has a binary install. Apparently you can run jellyfin in a container also, not sure I really need to tho?
Thank you for any hints or advice.
Debian is kind of the default for many things now, so many guides etc will assume a Debian-like os but if you are familiar with other OSes you can try them just fine. Make sure zfs is supported by the OS properly if you want to use it for your SSDs (which I suggest).
If you are using Docker containers, you can migrate between OSes later relatively easy. Depending on how beefy your optiplex is, you could also use Proxmox as the base os and play with different VMs. Being able to easily snapshot the VMs is pretty great and for me has always been worth the overhead.
I should have mentioned, I prefer to use podman over docker, which apparently doesn’t work with ZFS? At least not the Proxmox VE Podman LXC…
Oh, I wasn’t aware of that. Not sure if there’s a way to achieve that