How to access my home server from anywhere safely

So I am about to build a truenas scale server and one of my uses is to access my files in the server from anywhere. i travel a lot so I want to have secure access to my server and the ability to use the docker apps wherever I am like immich where I will be replacing Google Photos, and some times I want to have a VPN to my home for my job so I appear to be in my home is there a secure way to do it I have found a lot of tools but it doesn't seem safe