Anyone else using Mac minis as VM hosts for self hosting? My Friendica server is a Linux VM on a Mac Mini in my living room. The VM is bound to a VLAN tagged network interface so it’s completely firewalled off from the rest of my network. Also got a second Linux VM on the same box for hosting local stuff on my main VLAN (HomeBridge/etc).
I feel like they’re really nice platforms for this, if not the cheapest. Cheaper than one might think though; I specced up an equivalent NUC and there wasn’t a lot of difference in price, and the M2 is really fast.
I gave up on VMs ten years ago.
Containers on Linux metal, always.
What do you use between the container and the metal? I’ve just been running Ubuntu server under docker.
Depends on where the box goes. If it’s sitting anywhere online, it’s Debian. If it’s on the firewall, Arch. Ubuntu Server is a fine host OS. We have many boxes at work that are still running 14 and 16 smashingly, although they’re coming up EOL very soon.