Hello all, I am new to the forums and to unraid.

 

I have read through the official doc but wanted to get your guys opinion on how to proceed with unraid.

 

Currently I run alot of automation through my Desktop Computer.  My computer runs the following apps.  Plex Server, Couch Potato, Sick Rage, PlexPy, Plex Requests, and Deluge

All this is used for automation of TV and Movie downloads.

 

I want to switch all of this to an unraid box.  My question is what is the best practice for achieving this.

Should I use docker to run all these application individually, or should I make a virtual machine with KVM to manage this.

 

What would the pros and cons be.

Docker, definitely. I wouldn't even think of doing a VM. Off the top of my head, if the VM itself has a problem, or one of the apps does, it'll take down everything. With Docker, they are all separate. I'm pretty sure Docker will be lighter on resources too. Everything is more contained, easier to manage, easier to update, etc.

Docker, definitely. I wouldn't even think of doing a VM. Off the top of my head, if the VM itself has a problem, or one of the apps does, it'll take down everything. With Docker, they are all separate. I'm pretty sure Docker will be lighter on resources too. Everything is more contained, easier to manage, easier to update, etc.

I recommend dockers also but I don't think VMs or their apps should take everything down unless you configure the VM to take all the resources away from unRAID.

Docker, definitely. I wouldn't even think of doing a VM. Off the top of my head, if the VM itself has a problem, or one of the apps does, it'll take down everything. With Docker, they are all separate. I'm pretty sure Docker will be lighter on resources too. Everything is more contained, easier to manage, easier to update, etc.

I recommend dockers also but I don't think VMs or their apps should take everything down unless you configure the VM to take all the resources away from unRAID.

 

No, but if you lose your VM for whatever reason, then it's all gone...

 

Another vote here for docker.

So what happens if say 2 drives fail in my array.  What is the recovery process for docker containers.  With the vm as long as its "FILE" can be recovered all you have to is have KVM load it and boom back in business.

So what happens if say 2 drives fail in my array.  What is the recovery process for docker containers.  With the vm as long as its "FILE" can be recovered all you have to is have KVM load it and boom back in business.

As long as the appdata for your dockers can be recovered all you have to do is reload your dockers from the templates and they will be downloaded and started and pick up using the data as if nothing happened.