Splitting a Raspberry Pi to use Pi hole and a VPN?

[Iron Windwalker]

I took a programming class a couple semesters ago and one of my classmates "threaded or split" a Raspberry Pi 3 to run two programs at the same time completely independent of each other. Both programs having different cores and different sections of the memory. Would it be possible to do the same but with Pi Hole, and setting up a VPN as well? If it is where would I go to learn how?  

[vanished]

That doesn't sound like something which requires completely segmenting the hardware with VMs or however it was done.  I would just have both services running.  It could probably handle additional things at the same time too.

[Fredrik Svantesson]

A pi is pretty much just a regular computer, of course it can run multiple programs at once. The programs need to support the operating system that its running though, however most Pi's run Linux in some form, so it shouldnt be a problem.

[jj9987]

You can just install the VPN software, start it. Then install Pi-hole and start it. And you're good to go.

 

Raspberry Pi has a full operating system. It doesn't do just one thing, compared to something like Arduino.

 

If you want to really separate them on the OS level, Docker is the way to go.