DietPi. I have quite a few VMs running DietPi, very light, simple, "just works"!
I have to reluctantly use Docker which is cumbersome, awkward and confusing in comparison. A DietPi VM is simple and easy to run, use and more importantly, keep backed up. I really hate being forced to use Docker when DietPi exists and works!
It has certainly helped me get my head round docker. I don't have to remember what folder I left that compose file in or what that command was. Because of using Dockge I now get the correlation between the command line and compose files (although I still hate languages that rely on whitespace/indenting but that's another rant for another day lol).
I really like the clean simplicity of this (and Uptime Kuma). Couple of things I think would be handy, some shortcuts or snippets for the console, rather than having to try and remember all the prune commands etc could have some custom one click buttons to do it (or maybe chain the commands like docker system prune -a && docker volume prune -a etc?
Are you integrating Telegram with this again? Obviously we can monitor the containers with UK but I was thinking of an alert if there's an update available if we can add some update check?
Absolutely lovely interface though, really glad this came along. Thank you!
Depends what you set in the DNS records and where you published them? Literally no idea tbh.
You can't possibly know that from the limited info in the OP.
Zerotier, or any other VPN service that is outbound/cloud hosted.
What router is it/what settings does it have? If it has IP/port filtering I would imagine it would have some sort of forwarding service.
All I can say is, wut?
All of those options are fine, in that they will all achieve what you want/describe/ask. Up to you which one you do, I've done all 3 essentially over the years as the lab has grown/expanded/matured. Depends what your budget is and what you want to get done really.
Pretty much anything could do this, can even do it with an Excel document!
I don't fully follow that but like I said, sounds like you're doing it wrong if you have to alter firewall rules every time you add a host because of DNS issues.
Well it won't. You either tell it to assume that say oldest is always source and if there are identical files then you get asked to choose.