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Regarding different distros: yes, absolutely possible! Considering that swarm development is basically stopped the risk of inconsistencies is lower than back in the days but I’d pin the engine version on all nodes and only explicitly upgrade all at the same time to a newer version.
Regarding swarm itself, even though I understand your desire, I’d recommend to have a look at something else. Have you had a look at Nomad for instance? It’s not compose compatible but I guess these days it’s a simple prompt to convert the compose files, it’s supposed to be simpler than K8s and still offers many perks (like the failover you are looking for).
Also, from what I just read, Proxmox is working on improving the container support to allow “native” containers (inside VMs similar to Kata containers). They’re not there yet but I am wondering if it’s worth the effort from your side right now 😅
Either way, have fun! A fellow homelab buddy 😄
Glad to hear I'm not crazy with different distros haha. I wanted to be able to have different "enviroments" to keep familiar with release schedules, package managers, and just the flow of the distro. I've been using nothing but Debian/Ubuntu in my homelab for ~10 years now, at work we use RHEL, and for my desktops I'm on Arch. I'll have to look into pinning.
I've never heard of Nomad(love the name) so I'll definitely add it to my list of things to research. Looking at their site it looks solid, but want to weigh my options once I've loomed at everything.
And thanks for your comment! I've been doing this a long time and nothing "tickles" my brain more than something in my homelab breaking and I have to figure out how to fix it and then prevent it going forward.
Not crazy at all, actually, I can relate to some extent 😂 although, I am super happy with Talos on my nodes 😇 I feel like I am…staying familiar - love the optimism! - by building container images based on different distros simply because, depending on what you want to package, you’re…encouraged by the individual devs to use this or that package manager anyway 😂 but sounds like you do enjoy pain, so go for it 😂