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Compared to Debian or Ubuntu container images, Alpine Linux uses one-tenth the space and 60% less RAM. It has minimal packages installed by default which minimizes the attack surface. That makes Alpine an ideal OS for both a Docker host and simple containers. Installing Docker in an Alpine Linux container on Proxmox is really as simple as running a few commands.

A Drupal Recipe is a collection of YAML files that can be installed at any point in the lifecycle of a Drupal application. It lets site builders make "recipes" to create reproducible units of functionality.

Alpine Linux is a lightweight, security-focused distribution that uses musl, libc, and busybox by default. It is an excellent choice for Proxmox LXC containers when you want minimal resource usage, fast boot times, and a small disk footprint. Choose Alpine for running services like Docker hosts, monitoring tools, or simple servers inside Proxmox.

Soon we'll be relaunching this site using Drupal CMS 2.0. By itself, Drupal is a highly customizable content management system and the Drupal CMS initiative has made launching (and relaunching) websites a breeze compared to Drupal Core alone. Learn why Drupal CMS was chosen over other options.

Pi-hole is a popular caching DNS server used for blocking ads network wide. Keepalived allow servers to failover virtual IPs. Today I'll be configuring 3 Pi-hole servers with Keepalived so that no DNS IP ever goes down. While DNS is designed with failover in mind, some services and devices really don't play well with that.