For people living with others it might not be a choice though. The lights not working for a day the way they normally do is all it takes for someone to lose all faith in automation. It’s easier when you plan for a specific time and day to update things, as long as you are not exposed to the internet, slightly out of date apps are not a big worry

I suppose that’s true. The country is not well liked in Latin America either due to all the meddling they’ve done (which was not properly covered in US history classes).

The US doesn’t chop up journalists with a saw just yet.

I get that, but the services listed by the other comment run just fine in docker with less hassle by throwing in some bind mounts.

The 4 VMs dedicated dockge instances is exactly the kind of thing I had in mind for people that want to avoid something that sounds more like work than a hobby when starting out. Building the knowledge takes time and each product introduced reduces the likelihood of it being completed anytime soon.

I would give docker compose a try instead. I found Proxmox to be too much, when a simple yaml file (that can be checked into a repo) can do the job.

Pay attention to when people say things can be improved (secrets/passwords, rootless/podman, backups), etc. And come back to them later.

Just don’t expose things to the internet until you understand the risks and don’t check in secrets to a public git repo and go from there. It is a lot more manageable and feels like a hobby vs feeling like I’m still at work trying to get high availability, concurrency and all this other stuff that does not matter for a home setup.

While I read the title I was thinking “that sounds like Linux with extra steps” - maybe that’s good enough for some discussion.

They probably deliver many orders on one trip and it would require a truck with a refrigerated box to be up to food safety standards.