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  • Yeah Proxmox leaves a lot to be desired in terms of metrics. However, metrics are supported out of the box. Bad news, you probably won’t get what you want within proxmox. Good news, you have another project you get to undertake! Hooray!

    Like I said, Proxmox supports metrics out of the box. If you go Cluster -> Metric Server you’ll be able to see that you can add a metric server. The first iteration I did with proxmox I added an InfluxDB container which then proxmox can talk to (yes they can be on the same host), and then proxmox will start pumping metrics into InfluxDB. (It uses Telegraf under the hood). Then, you can also run Grafana, add your InfluxDB as a data source, and then you have a sweet metrics dashboard. There are a lot of pre-built dashboards already made that look great, and you can customize from there.

    You can also use Graphite, I personally haven’t used it, but I also dropped Influx over time too. These things evolve in that sort of way. That’s how I’d get set up and started though.



  • Did a takehome for a company recently that did it well. They required that I make a docker file (you could give them one if you wanted) where when ran it would run tests. It was a neat use of docker IMO, it standardized that builds were just “build the docker file” and running was just “run the dockerfile”. You would t have to deal with tar or anything then.

    Thousand ways to skin a cat there



  • They said they were open to it but they had zero priority of doing it themselves, and essentially “submit a PR if you want it”. A shame really, their interface is great, and such an easy setup. If they implemented either xmpp or matrix I would switch immediately. All of my friends want a discord clone that “just” works, but no one wants to go to this server for this group and then login to that server for that group. They want a single-pane interface like what discord offers.

    Shortsighted to not implement that IMO.





  • Replicating images isn’t really best practice. Images are meant to be ephemeral on the server. Dockers pattern is to repull the images if they are needed, and that only takes a few seconds. Saving the images IMO would just be a waste of space.

    If you are afraid the images will be gone someday, the proper way to handle this is to use a docker registry as a proxy. So you make your own docker registry, like your.tld/registry and then set it in proxy mode. Then when you pull your images you set docker to pull from your registry. If it’s found it will use your local data otherwise it will pull through from the parent registry, and serve the docker image to your client. For backup then you backup the registry’s volume.

    That fits within the pattern of docker. Your clients come up, query the local registry, and it will serve your containers. Your server remains ephemeral.









  • I understand that how you feel, and I also understand a mother’s beliefs. While what she’s saying is probably superstition, it also comes from a place of love, where she truly does want you to feel better.

    Now, while what she said may be superstition, I will also say going to an event like that usually does help depression. Not because of anything mystical - but you’re out of the house, you’re with people who you care about and care about you, for an evening you don’t need to worry about anything outside of the wedding, it is meant to be an event to enjoy. All of these are proven to help with depression, and an event like a wedding definitely can, if you go into them positively and want to have a good time. If you go into them thinking you’re going to have a terrible time - well, you probably will. It’s what you make of it.

    Either way, responding to your mother’s good wishes doesn’t have to be extremely negative, (and this is coming from a person who’s mother was a fundamental christian who tried to drag me to many many things). In this case, personally without knowing you I’d say go to the wedding. Worst case you get free booze and a decent meal. If you really don’t want to, then a simple message to your mom that’s like “Mom, I truly do appreciate that you’re trying to help me, but I’m just not ready for an event like this. How about we do something quieter?”. Acknowledge her trying to help, suggest an alternative.

    Final thought: Could it be that she wants you to go with her not for your sake, but for hers? Does she need a plus one and she just wants to spend time with you, but maybe doesn’t know how to ask?