Zulip hit’s the sweet spot for me, as it’s pretty straight forward to use and not too many bangs and whistle’s.

Alternatively I’m also very happy with signal for communicating with other ones where Idon’t have to vother about user management too much.

Not FOSS anymore. More like open core these days.

+1 for Gandi, as they also have an API for management as well and support ACME DNS challenge for Let’s encrypt.

Does not have all the features you listed, but I used Rustypaste in the past for sharing all kind of things and was quite happy with it.

Similar setup here with additional exporters like cadvisor for container metrics and other components.

OpenTelemetry is awesome, but still a very fast moving project. Expect therefore more frequent updates and changes compared to more older and established projects.

Nice catch and thanks for sharing. Will definitely check it out.

Fully agree to this summary. traefik also gave me a hard time initially, but once you have the quirks worked out, it works as promised.

Caddy is absolutely on my list as an alternative, but the lack of docker label support is currently the main roadblocker for me.

You can also have a look at contabo as well.

Will have a look. Thanks.

Got it. Thanks.

Zulip looks like a good alternative for us due to the available integrations which we also will take for a spin. And there is always XMPP of course, but I’m not a huge fan of it as all the Clients seem rather outdated.

What other better options would you consider instead of Matrix? Happy to hear your suggestions ;)

I also looked into this option and was wondering how it might collide with our existing Ansible playbooks, as Ansible itself is not declarative and some tasks might overwrite existing functionality.

That’s a valid point. Initially we were thinking of running without federation, just to avoid that someone creates a public room by accident and have all the internal communication out there.

I’m not sure if this is a valid fear, as I haven’t looked too deep into the permission options yet.

Another alternative approach could be Distrobox, where you can set up isolated environments for your specific needs.