I’ve had feeling towards running proxmox on my homelab, but I didn’t yet felt like reinstalling and reconfiguring everything so for now its a dockerland and an extra VM for stuff that had to run separate

The simpliest way I found to do this on Windows is HFS https://www.rejetto.com/hfs/?f=intro

You still need to figure out either VPN between your computers or port forwarding to make it work over network though

Edit: and sufficiently secure it if youre planning on running it online at all times

Isn’t alpine musl based? Last time I heard it can lead to some very obscure problems when interacting with applications compiled with gcc… so, hows it fare for you?