slazer2au@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
I find that Debian is the go to for a stable OS. There are others for self hosting like casaos or Talos but I am a vanilla Debian man myself.
Portainer or Podman can be used to manage containers with a GUI compared to the cli.
As for proxies I use Traefik as a reverse proxy for all my Docker containers. It integrates with CertBot so it auto renews Let’s Encrypt certs.
You don’t need to buy a domain, you can use a self signed cert and install that cert onto your machine to not get cert warnings.
Thanks. My NAS comes with a Docker GUI that I’m fairly comfortable using at this point, but I figured I’d end up using Portainer on the mini PC. So CertBot is the software that will get me a self-signed certificate until I’m ready to expose it to the web? And I can install that via Docker container? Desktop Debian is totally cool for the mini PC OS?