Eventually, I landed on using Docker Compose for everything, but I still had backup backups in disaster and recovery in the back of my mind which I wouldn’t set up until later.At some point I decided I didn’t want Debian anymore and switched to TrueNAS Scale. Part of the rec recommendation of Techno Tim on YouTube. I really do enjoy TrueNAS scale and I think it’s great at what it does. But for my use case, I ended up switching back to Debian after having some issues Actually, I didn’t even have any issues. I got a setup running pretty well where I was having custom applications use the include syntax to put my compose file in there. So I had all of my Docker containers as custom apps running in the TrueNALS applications section. And it ended up working really well. But the fact of the matter was, I was barely using or clearly misutilizing the power of ZFS pools and automated backups that TrueNAS is so powerful at. So I considered Proxmox heavily before deciding I would just go back to Debian and Docker because all of my services run in containers and I don’t yet have the need to experiment on VMs. The need for that is growing, however. I’ve been feeling it kind of lately where I want VMs, but I haven’t quite gotten there yet. I think I will likely set up a development environment where I have Proxmox on some machine and I’ll spin something up, but for now I’m just fine, I think. It’s the end of February and I think I have the basics set up. One of the really tricky parts was overlapping the initial platform with Docker and then the initial services like Trafic with networking and service dependencies like Uptime Kuma for monitoring, uptime, or later on down the line if I want to consolidate logs or something like that. The idea of all of this is to have an AI agent control, like, literally everything, if possible. So I think I just need a framework for setting up a new service, where to save the API key for future modifications, blah blah blah blah blah. Right now, my home page container has most of my API keys, but that’s just because it integrates with all of them to show health checks. I am still continuing to have an insane amount of fun. Although I will be honest and say that I spent a good chunk of time probably. Probably close to sixty hours or so creating a theme for Docusaurus to make it look like the almond theme of Mintlify since I care probably too much about how my documentation looks. I think in the end, it probably would have been simpler to recreate it from scratch rather than forcing the Docusaurus back end to fit my My ideal theme.