Comment by Spivak

Well sure, with those requirements running any piece of software will be complicated. None of the complexity has anything really to do with HA.

My pretty minimal stack:

- Intel NUC running Ubuntu LTS.

- Zigbee dongle I bought off Aliexpress.

- Zigbee2MQTT installed via package manager configured to use the Dongle.

- One single container running HomeAssistant with net=host

That's it. Has worked for years. Whenever I feel like it I ssh into the box, docker pull the latest image, rerun my two line bash script to recreate the container and go on my merry way.