To use Docker secrets so that the secrets are encrypted on the host. Using Docker Swarm was the path of least resistance to set up my system monitoring stack.

Docker Compose can use secrets without Swarm, but my understanding is that the those are in plaintext on the host.

I haven’t tried it myself but Ubuntu desktop 24 has remote desktop built in. You could try it out on a VM?

then others will

Unfortunately, I don’t think the others want to compete fair either. It’s a big race to shove garbage to consumers.

Reminded me of this bit from Barge Ballad

Oh you’ve got to remember

Way up atop the mast

Knowing all the river routes

That you never learn from the charts

Well I do remember

By emailing your input? Kinda like chess by post.

Or text based adventures

Gandalf: <user> is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported