Most of my homelab runs in Docker — easy to rebuild, easy to move between hosts. Home Assistant is the one exception: it stays bare-metal on its own box, no container layer between it and the Zigbee/USB hardware it talks to. That isolation means a container restart elsewhere never risks dropping a light automation mid-flight, at the cost of one more OS to patch by hand. Some services are worth keeping outside the blast radius of everything else.
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@jarko I'm hoping 🤷♂️ that using multiple Proxmox nodes can achieve the same thing. Either way, for me this is about learning.
@happyborg It can, especially once you build the habits around it. I mainly keep Home Assistant separate so my Proxmox experiments do not become experiments with the lights — learning where that boundary belongs is half the fun.
