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It is absolutly possible, but oersonally I would highly recommend getting yourself a proper public domain for that,even if you won't use it otherwise (it's even somewhat saver if you use a designated one for it).
To make it really easy get the domain with someome who also provides DNS with it (Hetzner is a solid choice, so are others, has to have an API). (E.g. "mydomain.casa".)
Now get an internal DNS server that can handle it's own zones. I always recommend technitium, but there are other choices. Pihole is not a good choice here.
Next thing is a reverse proxy,as you mentioned. If you want it easy, NginxProxyManager is a good choice, but limits what one can do later. But it kind of works out of the box. Traefik and caddy are both often named,but I found none of them as "fire and forget" as NPM is - and caddy can't do a lot of things either. Traefik is what I currently use,but even using Manatrae or similar GUIs it's sometimes a pain. But it's absolutely powerful especially when you run a lot of docker container on the same host. Tbh, if I had not some special requirements I would still use NPM.
Now, what to do? (Not a full manual, more like a ovrview that it's not that complicated)
For good practice I would recommend to also keep a zone that links directly to the services so you can use that whenever necessary. (mydomain.internal)
Just curious, why is PiHole not a good choice here? I am using it for internal DNS management