Sorry, to be clearer, I’m trying to fit this into the Unraid UI elements offering to run & manage docker. I know I could be running docker compose commands myself, but unraid doesn’t natively support that via it’s nice management page.

I need to investigate my #1 option up above - a plugin to unraid that offers some level of compose support.

Yeah, makes sense. I already run VMs for other things (Home Assistant and a general programming env one), just boring ubuntu ones though.

I have an unnecessarily beefy system (12core + 64gb of ram), so I guess the overhead isn’t bad, just the need to maintain yet another OS.