Homelab

Running LXCs on Debian

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I discovered that you can run LXC containers on Debian without needing Proxmox. Sure, you miss out on the great tooling that Proxmox has, but it’s useful when you’re working with limited resources… which I am.

This follows on to my previous post where I talked about keepalived where I used it for providing resiliency to my home DNS. This time, I’ll be moving my second container onto another machine.

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I discovered keepalived

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I’ve wanted to provide some resiliency to our home DNS setup for a while, mainly to stop needing to schedule any maintenance on my Proxmox “server”, but also because it makes sense.

So after some investigation, and conversing with Claude, I discovered keepalived.

What is keepalived?

Keepalived is a Linux daemon that provides high availability (HA) and load balancing for server clusters using the Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) to manage a virtual IP address, ensuring seamless failover and continuous service availability. It is commonly used in conjunction with other services like HAProxy and Nginx to enhance network resilience.

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