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Pihole is, traefik is a reverse proxy like nginx

Whoops, autocorrect strikes again

Mid-range networking equiptment common in higher end homelabs or small/medium enterprises.

Doesnt compete with fancier Cisco gear, but has an easy to use interface that can scale fairly well.

Though like most networking equiptment the hardware is dirt cheap, so Alpine’s lightweight base fits it well.

Most ubiquity equipment is alpine I believe

Mind linking the relavent simplex SMP/xftp windows container then?

Docker desktop for Windows runs under WSL or Hyper-V, both being VMs themselves.

Arguably running a Linux VM themselves will only offer them more customisation options (although may be heavier than WSL)

Thats how docker runs “natively” on windows, its kernel has no support for namespaces nor cgroups that containers require