Andreas has built his Home Automation Server on Raspberry Pi.

As I have two HP MicroServer Gen8 running HPE Customized ESXi 6.5.0 U3 (my test lab) I've decided to create "normal" linux virtual machine.

• download "debian-10.6.0-amd64-netinst.iso" from Debian site.
• create VM with 1vCPU, 2GB vRAM and 32GB of disk
• install Debian in minimal configuration
• ssh into and:
  • install Open VM tools: apt-get install open-vm-tools
  • Install Docker using following how-to: https://linuxize.com/post/how-to-install-and-use-docker-on-debian-10/
  • install Portainer (docker management package) using following command:

    • docker volume create portainer_data

    • docker run -d -p 8000:8000 -p 9000:9000 --name=portainer --restart=always -v /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock -v portainer_data:/data portainer/portainer-ce