Question about Linux containers (LXC) and best practices? (re: Plex, nzbget, sonarr,

jmk396

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I've been using ESXi for a long time but I'm looking to switch to ProxMox and use Linux Containers (LXC) for most of my applications.

In my current system, I have a "Download VM" which runs Debian 8 and nzbget, sonarr, couchpotato, etc. I also have another VM running my media servers such as Plex, Air Video HD, miniDLNA, etc.

I thought that LXC was meant to create one container per application, but it seems like that it not correct and that I should create my "Download VM" as a "Download" container and then run all of the download services inside that single container. Is that right?

I'm sure it's possibly to run each application in a separate container, but is that the best practice? It seems like that would require full-OS installs into each container and increase the overhead?
 
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