Jellyfin and Miniflux are internet facing because it would be turbo annoying otherwise to deal with them

You can issue commands to singular services or group them under an alies if needed.

But I have around a dozen stacks atm and I never came across a situation that I wanted to trigger an *arr stack restart with Jellyfin’s. They’re pretty much unrelated and independent services from an operational view.

I’m more talking about pull, up -d. It’s convenient having it all behind a single command, unless there’s a special need to have them separated

Having a single compose file for multiple unrelated services sounds like a nightmare to stop, start and debug if one of your containers is acting weird.

You can do “docker compose (servive) start/stop/restart” and so on

There’s no point in having them in the same file

Convenience is the reason for a lot of people

Same. Never felt the need to do them separately.

Well no shit

I’ve been managing to dodge them and use free alternarives

Interesting that people have enough subscriptions that this would be worthwhile