Remote access to Jellyfin (Docker)

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My Optiplex 3050 micro served me well but my external hard drive bay died, so i'm planning a new mini ITX build with a lot more internal capacity and this time I want to try running Jellyfin through Docker. My Optiplex server, I used Ubuntu 24.04 and Jellyfin was the only service I was running. For remote access I used tailscale to create a VPN for my families devices outside my home network and this worked perfectly. 

How would remote access work when Jellyfin is configured through Docker?

I have very basic understanding of networks and would ideally not like to do any direct port forwarding from my router if i can avoid it. Can I continue using Tailscale with Docker?

I'm also interested in running other services this time around, such as; NextCloud, Sonarr etc 

Thanks in advance.

[Efficient_Good_5784]

Running Jellyfin in Docker shouldn't affect how Tailscale works on your machine. Just keep using the same IP address when out and about to connect to the server with Tailscale.

[TheDreadPirate]

If you set the Jellyfin Docker container to use host networking, it would work exactly the same way. As in you could continue to use tailscale as is.