Comment by mwpmaybe

2 days ago

Yes, a virtual appliance or system image a la Home Assistant OS would seem like a better fit...

That would make it impossible to deploy it next to other services on an existing machine... why would you want less flexibility?

  • When did it become impossible to run a VM next to other services on an existing machine? As they said, Home Assistant OS works great with that setup and it's rock solid in my experience.

    • Running a full resource hungry VM when a container is enough is downright silly.

      And the HassOS you mention had to go through a lot of work from HASS team to allow for full container runtime so it gets the functionality UniFi's approach has out of the box.

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Or just a docker-compose file, since it's already in container format.