@gyptazy Indeed. It was the amount of required resources (and complexity) that forced me to reassess and start looking at things like FreeBSD. Do I really need servers this powerful to host some VMs/Containers?

If I was spinning up and destroying containers constantly I could see the use but most of the stuff I touch tends to be longer living and/or repeatable enough that I can automate with shell scripts.

For me it was like returning home - I started professionally way back when using Slackware, compiling things by hand and working to keep things lean and fast. Freebsd feels familiar to me in that sense but a lot more polished and with Ansible et.al I can achieve most of what I need to while not having to assemble some huge stack of software and deploy insanely expensive hardware.