whenever someone at work says they have trouble with a web service or api I’m like “Idk I can curl it just fine, what’s your request look like” and you would not believe how many developers get confused by this question. It’s so goddamn frustrating
My successful path for homelab stuff is to use kubernetes (k3s locally and digital ocean DOKS for cloud resources) with argocd and gitops. Everything I change is via a git commit+push so I can always rollback, and if this machine dies, once I replace/repair the hardware I can pull all backed up content from object storage, install K3s again, reconfigure the authentication for Argocd, and it will repopulate all the running services.
I am absolutely not saying this is the right path for you as I came into nearly all my modern knowledge through my career, but it is a path
Make sure to save all your secrets in git and then upload from git to postman, that way your security incident is way more repeatable