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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
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Half of that is the arr stack, some is management stuff, the rest is standalone stuff and not interlocked at all I think?
I'd consider something for authentication (like authelia or authentik) early on, so you don't have to convert all your services at once but can integrate them when you set them up.
Funkwhale is more of a thing for publicly sharing your audio, not for personal use, even though it might work as well. I think Navidrome is the most popular thing to stream your own stuff.
Generally I'd start with few services and learn your way around the whole stack before firing up 20 compose stacks without knowing what you're doing.
You might also want to think about a reverse proxy so you can access your stuff via subdomains instead of different ports.
early on, so you don’t have to convert all your services at once but can integrate them when you set them up.
For this part, i'm not sure what you mean by convert all my services? are you talking like a 2FA app or similar?
Not necessarily 2FA, but single sign on (SSO), so you don't have to log into every single service with it's own password but have a central identity authority that your services query.
Navidrome
+10 for Navidrome — solid piece of software.
Looks good OP. Quite the handful of app instances. What are you running this on?
Half of a potato with a bit of a sprout growing out of the top.
Well....look at Mr. Money bags over here with his half potato. Why, back in my day, all we had was just a sliver of a potato and we were happy to have it.
Chamge portainer and watchtower with Komodo.