4mo ago
I never intended for this hive to become a Proxmox fan blog, but it seems to be heading that way. I still plan on covering other topics, but when the rabbit hole is this deep, you might as well keep digging. There is just so much to cover on this topic alone. Every time I create a container, I see the option to "Enable Nesting." Every time, I’ve just moved past it, leaving it at the default "No." I never bothered to look into it because, deep down, I knew what it meant, and I knew I wanted nothing to do with it. Diving into the "tesseract" of nested containers felt like a rabbit hole I was determined to avoid. I’ve previously described it as navigating 4D space inside a Linux terminal; I had no desire to change that perspective. That is, until my laziness finally began to outweigh my stubbornness. This is a normal process for me. I was sitting at my desk, completely fed up with Windows Server: its insistence on auto-installing updates without asking and its refusal to automatically boot my media management stack. Having already successfully "liberated" Plex from Bill Gates’ nauseating influence, I decided it was time to shut the server down and migrate fully to Proxmox. This is where the math stopped adding up. I realized I’d need an LXC for every app in the stack. Normally that's fine, but it meant I would have to create bind mounts for multiple NAS drives on every... single... container. The monotony of mapping those drives over and over multiplies quickly, and I’m not even getting paid for it! So, I decided to just get it over with. I flipped the nesting switch, installed Docker inside the container, and... it’s actually not all that complicated. Each Docker container communicates perfectly and has instant, automatic access to the host's bind mounts. I even managed to figure out the VPN setup, which was the only reason I’d stuck with Windows for so long. It really is worth dropping the comfort of a simple UI in favor of this level of stability. I’ll file this one under "Things I thought were ridiculous until I tried them", right under guacamole and 3D-printed photos.