Preconfigured installation packs?

yatesco

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Just musing out loud, but I'm sure there is a market for a set of OOTB Proxmox configurations. A "small office" set up with Nextcloud, email (Proxmox Email obviously ;-)), Samba, networking software, Zabbix etc. A "home server" one with Nextcloud, bookmarking, Zabbix etc.

(Yes, these are really all arguably better as LXC templates. Yes, choice paralysis is a real thing.)

My point is that I am sure a whole bunch of people install Proxmox but are then faced with "now what?". This seems like a missing gap which would get a lot more people on the "on ramp" to Proxmox.

To be blunt, I suspect this will have more effect as a marketing solution (getting people aware of, and using Proxmox) than a longer term solution as most people will want to start from scratch eventually, and that's fine. The point is more people are likely to try the "office in a box" or "home server in a box" than simply Proxmox.

Proxmox has solved, elegantly, the "get a hypervisor running". Does it need to solve the "I need a packaged solution" too?

What are your musings?
 
...maybe... I've hard some negative things about Turnkey containers not being maintained which *might be FUD!*. If not, I guess I'm suggesting an installation with a bunch of those containers pre-installed.
 
...maybe... I've hard some negative things about Turnkey containers not being maintained which *might be FUD!*. If not, I guess I'm suggesting an installation with a bunch of those containers pre-installed.
Oh that is sad...
But you get the point. Installation is rather easy.
Upgrades is rather tricky and need administration skills.
Yunohost is a great project too, with upgrades.
But still, sometimes it fails.
I prefer to keep it KISS : one VM per service, and do upgrades manually.
 
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