I personally run a bunch of software I've written, as well as open source things. So for me docker makes everything significantly easier, and saves me installing a lot of rubbish I don't understand well.
I then booted into a new fresh clean debian environment, mounted my disks, and:
cd /opt/docker/configs; for i in *; do cd $i; docker-compose up -d; cd ..; done
Sure, I have a new set of problems, but they feel smaller.
At some point I moved individual containers to other machines and they work perfectly. VPS, NUC no matter what.
Like, legit, this is the whole point of docker. Application/service dependencies are no longer tied to the server it is running on, mitigating the worst parts of dependency hell.
Although, in your case, I suppose your tolerance for dependency hell has been quite high ;)
Until you decide to optimise for resources, and do crazy things like “one postgres instance, one influxdb instance” instead of “one instance per microservice”, and then you get back into hell pretty quick.
Winds me up how massive tiny applications become, and how my choices are to throw money (RAM) at the problem, or money (time) at the problem. I wonder when someone will do the math and prove that developer laziness is having a substantial drag on global efficiency. The aggregate cost bourn by users has to be orders of magnitude larger than the cost savings made by developers at this point.
I get what you are saying, but note a word of caution - kernel upgrades can break container runtimes: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/10623.