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Everything they made during the pandemic just ends up failing within the year.

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The weird thing to me about the majority of VMware environments I see is that they exist to prop up and extend Microsoft environments.

Microsoft is hostile towards this use case because having your own cloud competes with their cloud products.

VMware was a commodity product that exists because they know how desperately IT professionals need to keep these Windows systems running with some level of reliability with advanced backup and replication strategies. And it was good.

After trying out proxmox I can say that:

  1. VM performance under windows is much faster on vmware. I think this boils down to the drivers for storage. I could go more into detail but not here.
  2. Containers and Linux VMs are offering me more than I ever really hoped for in proxmox.

But now I’m starting to think what the alternatives are really. VMware was a windows first virtualization platform. Other virtualization platforms in the open source ecosystem really put things like Linux first. Having to race to get to the point of hosting windows systems with constantly increasing licensing prices has really diminished the value to me of virtualization over all for windows.

I think we as a community need to move away from windows on the server and embrace technologies like containers,docker,podman, Kubernetes and phase out reliance on Windows.

For starters, does anybody have a rock solid setup guide for a Kubernetes Active Directory System?

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I’m fooling around with a few samba AD docker containers. I ask because I’ve phased almost everything else out of my lab environment.

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I figured you could get around some of the storage limitations with something like persistent volume claims. I’m testing it out at the moment. I am a big fan of LXC.

I see a few people have created docker Samba Containers and I’m giving them a whirl. Can’t say much for stability but I think it’s an interesting experiment.

I know in the past smb server didn’t work in LXC containers because certain kernel modules caused conflicts.

A man can dream.

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I’m also interested in these alternatives!

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There are a few applications out there that I don’t fully understand the deployment of but seem to work in containers.

Typically the storage is mounted outside of the container and passed through in the compose file for docker. This allows your data to be persistent. Ideally you would also want those to reside in a file system that can easily be snapshot like ZFS. When you pull down a new docker container, it should just remount the same location and begin to run.

Or at least that’s how I’d imagine it would run. I feel like one would run into the same challenges people have running databases persistently in containers.

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Has anyone else seen the movie “The Congress” starring Robin Wright?

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