Pi-hole LXC with gravity-sync?

[Dunuin]

Hi, right now I'm using two Debian 11 VMs running my two Pi-holes but I now would like to replace the VMs with LXCs and add gravitiy-sync so I wouldn't need anymore do all administrations tasks twice in both pi-hole webUIs. And I also would like to add unbound for recursive DNS resolution to each LXC like described here.
If I remember right I've seen threads here of people running Pi-hole in LXCs, so I guess that should work. But when looking at the gravity-sync 4.x documentation I see these lines:

• When running Pi-hole inside of a container, only the official Pi-hole Docker image is supported.
• For both standard and container based Pi-hole deployments, Gravity Sync will run directly on the host OS and not inside of the container image.
• Containers must use bind mounts to present the local Pi-hole configuration directories to the container, not Docker volumes.
• You can mix/match standard and container based deployments of Pi-hole, or use different underlying Linux distributions, in the same Gravity Sync deployment.

Does someone maybe still got it working with LXCs? Someone knows why that scipt wouldn`t be working using an LXC?

 

[Brian Read]

I'm runningf Pi-hole inside a LXC container based on Rocky 8.6. However I go not use the gravity-sync. I created the LXC and then installed pi-hole.

 

[Dunuin]

I now tried it and looks like it is working.

I now got two unprivileged Pi-hole LXCs that are redundant/HA that:
- sync the configs via gravity-sync
- got failover with a vitual IP using keepalived so only one Pi-hole is actively used at a time so logs/statistics are all on one Pi-hole
- got unbound for recursive DNS resolution so I don't need to trust some single upstream servers
- autoupdate apt packges, pi-hole and gravity-sync
- are monitored using graylog and zabbix (there is a template for monitoring DNS statistics using the pi-hole API)

And the best part is for that HA you don't need a expensive PVE HA cluster. That all could be done with just a single PVE node + a baremetal raspberry pi.

Someone interested in a tutorial?