After trying out Cosmos Cloud (and it not working for the clients), I’m back at square one again. I was going to install Docker Desktop, but I see it warns that it runs on a VM. Will this be a problem when trying to remote connect to certain services, like Mealie or Jellyfin?
There is Cockpit which allows you to manage the server and has simple management for containers. However, I recommend using something like Dockge with compose because it makes it easier to change the configuration of containers without recreating them manually.