Containers , Appliances? OwnCloud or NextCloud

[Moosetracks]

I want to setup an OwnCloud or NextCloud system on Proxmox...

I am new to proxmox and trying to understand the difference between containers, appliances, and things like docker?

I found links on this forums that mentioned downloading an owncloud template, but all the links point to empty pages like this.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OwnCloud

Some questions... What is the difference between a container, and an appliance.
Can proxmox containers use an OVA file?

Whats the best way to get one of these two programs up and running? Creating a VM and installing that way, using a container, is there a repository for containers / templates for these types of programs?

 

[Alwin]

I found links on this forums that mentioned downloading an owncloud template, but all the links point to empty pages like this.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OwnCloud

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OwnCloud_v8.0

Some questions... What is the difference between a container, and an appliance.

A computer appliance is a computer with software or firmware that is specifically designed to provide a specific computing resource.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_appliance
Sometimes conainters are referred like this but more in the sense of having a complete application shipped in one package.

Can proxmox containers use an OVA file?

No, needs qemu-img convert.

Whats the best way to get one of these two programs up and running? Creating a VM and installing that way, using a container, is there a repository for containers / templates for these types of programs?

Configure a file based storage (NFS, SMB, local) and there you have the possibility to download LXC templates. PVE includes also templates from turnkey-linux.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/chapter-pct.html#pct_container_images

 

[tom]

https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/OwnCloud_v8.0

This is a outdated page in our wiki and I removed it now.

Owncloud or Nextcloud can be deployed on Proxmox VE, nowadays Nextcloud seems more popular.

 

[Rares]

We run with success NextCloud in an unprivileged Debian 9 container. Maybe for extra paranoia on security I would play with an Ubuntu container and see if you can set supplementary apparmour rules.