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I tend to use separate Pis as it's easier admin and one thing crashing or restarting won't hit end everything (although Docker should hopefully minimise that.)
Also, I seem to remember that running Home Assistant running in Docker has some limits. When I looked at it previously add-ons didn't work which was a big issue.
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New to all this, haven't actually bought one yet but that's what my question's about.
I want to do the smart home thing with Home Assistant, set up a pi NAS and pi hole and track some flights with a Flightaware USB stick.
Is there any reason I can't do all of this on one Pi 4 using docker containers and bog standard pi OS?
Home Assistant says that it runs best on a dedicated Pi but if it's powerful enough, shouldn't this be OK?
And would 2Gb of ram be enough to do this all on one machine?
I'll probably end up getting a zero to run the flight tracker as it will need to be in our loft bedroom somewhere in our new place and I don't want the noise of spinning hard drives, if that helps.