You mentioned that you can’t ping the remote VM. Have you checked if the remote VMs IP is reachable? Is it in the ARP table? Check with arp -a

You could run an individual Immich instance per user. Not sure if it’s feasible or smart

I haven’t tried it yet, but I think you want something like n8n. Yeah, I know they claim to be very AI nowadays, but I had them on my radar before that. It’s essentially an automation platform you can use to glue services together that weren’t intended for each other. https://github.com/n8n-io/n8n

Oh, lol! I mean I was totally aware of Kubernetes existing as an enterprise grade container solution, but didn’t really consider that it could fit my needs. Makes so much sense that they have a feature like Volume snapshots. Gonna look into Kubernetes/k3s. Thanks!