I have a series of containers that use the host network and share messages over MQTT. Works well. One of them launches other containers when specific trigger phrases are said in specific topics. Another one sends trigger phrases based on a schedule.

It’s easy enough to run Authelia in front of all of your subdomains. Suddenly you’re back to one attack vector.

Sounds like the next step in your journey is combing through this list and seeing what’s out there: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

So much great stuff! But most of it has drawbacks, like missing features or less attractive UI. But it’s free and open source so we love it all the same.

Pi runs Raspbian which is just Debian with customisation applied. So of course it can run elsewhere. You don’t know as much as you think you do perhaps 😉