I want to run a small VM running a very low-maintenance distro for the sole purpose of running a private VPN (preferably WireGuard).
I do this because I want to access all of my ESXi VMs from WAN.
I’m thinking Fedora Server because it has roling-release, so I don’t have to reinstall, I guess? But I want it to be very stable, because if it fails I lose access to ALL my VMs.
Debian LTS with unattended upgrades is my go-to
OpenWRT. All the benefits of Alpine, plus a nice interface. Could also go OPNsense.
Not a bad idea if you want a bare minimum solution but set up could be a bit of a pain. More info: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/openwrt_x86
This isn’t bare x86 if they want to run in it in a VM.
Ubuntu 24.04 is security maintained for 10 years - no major version bumps just security updates the whole time. Installs lean, works great. I use it for exactly this.
I’ve been very pleased with ublue (Fedora) distros as daily drivers. They are very stable and low maintenance like you prefer. UCore sounds best for this purpose - https://github.com/ublue-os/ucore
Ucore is maintenance only afaik, they’re developing cayo server now
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I would of went Alpine, but debian is a solid choice as well.
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Alpine with a cronjob to
apk -U upgradeor auto-updating Debian Stable2nd for alpine, it’s what I use for my wg
Also, just run Tailscale and be done with it.
