If a system does not need to exist, it is removed. Minimal overhead, strict isolation, zero arbitrary dependencies.

Compute

Provider Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)
Architecture aarch64 (ARM Ampere)
Host OS Canonical Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Tier Oracle Free Tier

Container Runtime

Manager incus — community-driven LXD fork
Container OS Alpine Linux
Services are strictly isolated from the host. No web servers or databases installed directly on the host OS. A base Alpine Incus image idles at <5 MB storage and a fraction of the RAM a Debian container requires.

Traffic Stack

Host Firewall iptables — ingress rules, ports 80/443 forwarded into incusbr0
Web Server nginx inside Alpine container — static assets + reverse proxy
TLS Caddy (automatic certificate management)
DNS A-Record → public interface

Daily Driver

OS Arch Linux
Remote Access SSH + tmux
Config Mgmt Dotfiles, SSH keys — strictly version-controlled