TrueNAS has running been excellently on a random collection of HDDs, 9th Gen Intel, and older NVidia GPU parts but it can be a lot to manage. Enabling and discovering apps on TrueNAS is easy but, in my experience, fully configuring the apps can be more difficult than than editing Docker Compose files. So when it came time to replace as many cloud services as possible with 1 N150 Mini PC, I decided to use Docker Compose instead of TrueNAS or another more managed solution. Currently the system is running:
- Samba file sharing, general file management.
- Anytype noting Server.
- LEMP Server.
- Kimai Time Tracking.
- NextCloud Contacts and Calendar Server.
- Plex Video Server.
- JellyFin Music Server.
Everything works a treat. Need to implement backups to TrueNAS (which it excels at) but otherwise I find it much easier to manage and add services with single docker-compose.yml files rather than going through a UI. The real test is when I start to try out Kubernetes.
Updated and Retried on Ubuntu 25.04 12/01/25
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