My very limited takes:

  • I run everything inside containers ,+ traefik (*arr + jelly)
  • I have no issues with dependencies. Ever
  • Linuxserver.io is the shit. Real bros!
What is the role of traefik? I looks like networking software for something more like a k8s cluster with lots of pods going up and down all the time. We use linkerd at my job which seems like it has some overlap. But they both seem like overkill when running on a single node system unless I am missing something.
I just use it as a reverse proxy but afaik it can be used as a load balancer and many more uses.
And you are using a reverse proxy because you want to expose jellyfin to the general internet? And you don’t want to have to trust jellyfin’s security (which is very reasonable) ?
Yup. I also use Authelia as a middleware for additional TOTP 2FA.
Only downside: It breaks any app support as I can just expose the API and be done with it.