I love LXC/LXD for my home server. Far easier to use and maintain than VMs, fast, and use far less resources than VMs. And understanding containers is great f

I love LXC/LXD for my home server. Far easier to use and maintain than VMs, fast, and use far less resources than VMs. And understanding containers is great foundational knowledge for working with Docker and K8s. They also work great with NextCloud, Plex, PostgreSQL, and Zabbix, and SAMBA. But each are separate, no risk of a library or an OS upgrade taking out an app (and my weekend along with it). Snapshots are the ultimate ctrl-z, and backups are a breeze once you get past the learning curve. Ansible with ‘pet’ containers is the way to go. Use it to automate the backups and patching. Ansible cookbooks are surprisingly easy to work with. Again, a learning curve, but it pays for itself within months. Running a single machine with all the apps in a single environment is a recipe for tears as you are always one OS upgrade patch, library requirement change, hard drive failure away from disaster and hours of rebuilding.