I switched from Portainer to Komodo a while back. I like how everything is declarative. It almost has a Argo CD feel to it without needed kubernetes.

I was that guy. And then ended up with that career partly because of it.

Yeah, but if you were doing lxc + docker per container you might as well use this oci as lxc method. I think both methods are silly, but that’s just my opinion.

How does that make it easier for maintenance?

You have each “docker” container in there own lxc running docker? That’s a silly way to do it if I’m understanding correctly. You’re adding overhead to containers for little to no benefit. You could put them all in the same lxc or Proxmox supports OCI containers natively now.

Do you not understand what a suite of tools is? It’s a curated collection of tools that have been chosen to work together. You’re describing the reasons why Pangolin is in fact a full suite. You’re right, Pangolin is the bit that orchestrates them and brings them together with an easier way to manage them. That’s what a suite of tools does.

Pangolin uses gerbil with newt for those wireguard tunnels. That’s a massive improvement already. It also adds a bunch more features like vpn, you can crowdsec, and more that I don’t use. To say it’s debatable if it’s a suite of tools is just wrong.

I’ve set it up next to my NPM and it’s more complicated, but so much more capable. Traefik is what it uses to proxy things. You’re comparing a full suite of tools with just one piece.

Free vps in oracle cloud with Pangolin. Never have to worry about explaining VPNs.

I haven’t. I bought lifetime Plex Pass something like 15 years ago. A price change doesn’t effect me. It’s all their shitty updates and removing of features that makes me keep an eye on Jellyfin. I already have a sync setup for my watch status and a couple of my main users. Jellyfins apps are still worse.

Not that I’ve noticed.

Look at using Pangolin instead of cloudflare. You can buy a cheap VPS or use a free one on Oracle Cloud.

Pangolin on a free Oracle VPS.

Yeah, I agree with that. Give me a container.

They say in their post that they won’t host it.

Older 10G SFP+ models were definitely power hungry. I think they’ve gotten better since then, but I haven’t really looked into how much better.

I would definitely complain. That sounds defective.

Wow, that’s a power hungry modem… But, look into the power usage of those sfp modules. They can be ~10w on their own.

Those two devices are likely very low power arm devices. I wouldn’t be surprised if a mini pc consumes more power than those two devices. If power is your concern you should probably measure how much they’re actually pulling.

I put it in a container that has a build process every week.