Then you’re similar to me. I setup a new truenas scale server with the intention to replace a debian server that’s running dozens of docker containers via docker compose. No, it can’t be done. Options are k8s and virtual machines. That’s it. I can’t even run borgmatic.

What I’m doing is sharing the storage via iscsi to the debian server (it’s like a virtual disk image) using 10gb fiber. But now I have two servers, and the truenas one can never afford a second of downtime, if that one turns off it’s like yanking drives from a running system.

Now, if I had time I could definitely learn k8s and rewrite all my docker compose yml files but I have no time, it feels like a completely different concept

The available applications out of the box on truenas scale are just 96 and only few of them are actually useful. There’s a way to add a second unofficial repository (true charts) that adds another 500 apps, but the list is weird. There are like 5 Minecraft servers but not a single standalone database. No mariadb, MySQL, mongo and so on