lxe

this seems like such a really good baseline for a home-cloud. there's such good host infrastructure here. i'm such a huge Debian lover but there's so much more required to turn it into a decent host environment, and Proxmox covers so much ground to do just that. but i still want Kubernetes as my primary interface atop it. since LXC is the primary container system on Proxmox (and a damned fine one at that), it seems like one might be able to make something like LXE[1] run, as a shim, to provide a Container Runtime Interface & start running kubelet (the thing that runs containers) atop that. [1] https://github.com/automaticserver/lxe

LXC+LXD is one of the most undervalued container technologies out there. It can do a lot of cool things (like live migration via criu), and is IMO more production ready than Docker ever was. For those wondering about the distinction between "system" containers and "app" containers, the difference is user namespacing -- I think we should stop using the naming difference but instead go with specifying that the containers "full user name spacing". User namespacing is the "magic sauce" for projects like Podman and a related project Buildah which builds images without root privileges -- the combination of user namespaces and FUSE. BTW for those wondering if container orchestrators like Kubernetes will be shaken by this -- they very likely won't. Kubernetes has sidestepped this problem by introducing and relying on RuntimeClass[0], which allows

Someone is working on it, but its still early days: https://github.com/automaticserver/lxe