Wanting to install in Proxmox.. what’s the best way?
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I’m moving a lot of my home automation Raspberry Pi’s to Proxmox virtualisation and really enjoying it.
I would like to install Reactor that way too. Having researched this forum I’m surprised more people haven’t ventured into this. Although I use HomeAssistant in Proxmox I don’t want to use the HAOS path addin one user has tried as it seems to be unsupported now.
What would be the best way to install Reactor under Proxmox? As a Linux VM (flavour?) with manual install or as a Docker install or even following the Portainer write up with Docker install underneath? Proxmox tend to recommend you away from Docker where possible.
Keeping Reactor upto date easily would be a big consideration too.
Thanks for any recommendations and anyone running Reactor within Proxmox already ?
There’s a growing number of helper scripts for Proxmox that one click install home automation favourites as a prebuilt Linux container (LXC) . It would be nice to get Reactor listed and installed this way too…under the automation category
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My recommendation is to use a light OS you are comfortable with, add docker and docker-compose, and run Reactor that way. My go-to for amd64 architecture is a Lite (no desktop/GUI) install of the latest LTS version of Ubuntu and keep it up to date.
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Actually that’s just what I’ve done.
I did try the Portainer route as there are Proxmox scripts to rapidly create a Docker/Portainer LXC but the Portainer version / UI was very different to the write up here so I installed Reactor & MQTT direct to Docker with Docker Container and it seems to all be working fine
Portainer I have later installed too and it sees the Reactor container obviously. I’ve had a slight problem with root vs normal user but I think I’ve managed to get everything installed away out of root.
I like the up to date nature of Docker Compose and I believe MQTT is preserved. So I avoided a direct install to a Linux distribution as I think that would be more work to keep current going forward.
One more part of my HA setup off of a Pi as I move to have a predominantly MQTT centric system.