Not every container is based on the LinuxServer.io stack. I can't take any arbitrary container and use the docker mod and have it work.

I have over 25 containers running on my home server and not a single one of them is based on a LinuxServer.io image. This "universal" mod would work with 0 of them.

As others have said, you can run a sidecar container and proxy your current containers through the sidecar, and into the Tailscale network. They are universal in that the docker containers can run on any docker host, not that they are guaranteed to mesh/drop in and run inside whatever random containers you already run. Not sure why I am being downvoted for asking a genuine question out of curiosity…

Would you list them? I’m always looking for cool new containers for my homelab

Wireguard + GUI: https://github.com/wg-easy/wg-easy

Managing all those household docs: https://docs.paperless-ngx.com

Backups of mail accounts: https://www.offlineimap.org

Cloud storage for phones: http://nextcloud.com

Mirroring podcasts locally: https://github.com/akhilrex/podgrab

Managing dynamic service dns via plugins: https://coredns.io

My own matrix instance: https://matrix-org.github.io/dendrite/

Backups: https://restic.net

Media Management: https://jellyfin.org

Relay only tor help: https://www.torproject.org

S3 compatible storage: https://github.com/seaweedfs/seaweedfs

Git + CI: https://about.gitlab.com

Managing SSL and container proxying: https://traefik.io

Mirror the docker registry locally: https://github.com/docker-library/docs/tree/master/registry

Samba support for the windows hosts: https://github.com/ServerContainers/samba

HTTP/S Proxy with support for modifying results: http://www.privoxy.org

Database: https://www.postgresql.org

Datastore: https://redis.io

and a bunch of support software. Paperless has Tika and Gotenberg as deps for example.

Do you find GitLab and its Runners to be heavy at all in your home lab? I'm curious if anyone's been using Gitea/Forgejo with Actions or Woodpecker (Drone).

I have the runner set to poll every 60 seconds, so it's not using any real resources unless it's running a build. Gitlab itself is the heaviest consumer of resources, however, having the integrated CI system is worth it for me. I use gitlab at work, so it's familiar.

> Cloud storage for phones: http://nextcloud.com

Thanks, that sums it up for me.

I used OC/NC for years but in the last three I mostly abandoned it because the desktop app (for Windows, at least) is atrocious and Android one... isn't good either.

But as on-demand document download with occasional upload it's fine.

do you find any blocklisting issues running a relay only? i heard in the long, long ago that people who even just ran relays would find themselves on IP blocklists because of ignorant blocklist builders not knowing the difference between exit and non-exit nodes or grabbing the wrong lists

I have not and I’ve run the relay for about 5 years now. I do get lots of captchas on cloudflare, but generally they’re just the click to prove you are a human style and it’s not too bad for the household.

Awesome! Thank you!

LinuxServer.io containers rock for homelab. Not sure why you wouldn't use them.

It's called a "universal" mod because it can work on any linuxserver.io container image.