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I was truenas on bare metal for the first year or so, but now I run a truenas VM in proxmox, then use those pools as mounts onto the proxmox. it is really cool!
Until I was in the middle of figuring out how to automate backups of my vms, which paused TrueNas, which was the destination of the backup, was a fun 20 minutes getting it all back running this evening lol
I used proxmox to set up my ZFS pools and use bind mounts. It's fine, I'm sure it's a "grass is greener" thing.
Home labbing is a winter hobby, so in the summer months I hate the time spent updating all the machines when I could be outside.
If I had purely Docker set up, in winter I'd be complaining that "everything is too simple" and "I want more control" etc.