> The diagram alone is more than enough of an argument to dissuade me from giving this a shot right now - it's simply too complicated and too much to manage for the amount of time I can dedicate to it.

Yeah. I have a basic home server and I feel like even with fairly modest needs/desires (Jellyfin, Deluge, Zoneminder, some kind of file syncing, I gave up on photos because my whole family uses Google for that), it's hard to find a reasonable workflow/setup that covers it all. It was basically down to partitioning by VM (proxmox) or partitioned by container (docker), and I went with Docker + Portainer, but I'm not really happy with it; even basic functionality like redeploying a Compose configuration has sat as a feature-ask for three years [1].

Maybe I'm wanting it to be something that it just isn't, and I'd be happier with microk8s and managing the apps as Helm charts. But is that just inviting additional complexity where none is needed?

[1]: https://github.com/portainer/portainer/issues/1753