As the article says,

>Nomad is also a simpler piece to keep in your tech stack. Sometimes it's best to keep things simple when you don't really achieve any benefits from the complexity.

Simple is better. But in this case he doesn't realize that he's stuck way up the complexity stack in a local minimum that's way more complex than most of the potential software landscape. None of that is needed to expose a webserver. Just run nginx on the machine from repos with no containers, no deployment, etc, etc complexity and forward the port.

The second sentence of the article answers your question.

And if you follow the link in the third sentence, the image at the top of the README also answers your question.

If we are to take your assertion and those sentences at face value then the article title and hook is false. It is not about running a home server. It is about padding his resume and skills for providing services for pay at a corporation. It has nothing to do with running a home server. Perhaps a better title would be, "How to practice paid work (that's irrelevant at home) at home".

Yes I get how it works in the base case.

What we disagree on is the level of complexity.

It’s cli commands and text editing regardless of which method is used.

There is no iron clad hierarchy for organizing computers files on top of the OS, only personal experience. What may seem more complex for you is still just cli commands and text for me.

I do not see config as having weight, heft. Data, sure. Config is arbitrary.