Hope it all goes well. Burns HA did a good video on installing Portainer that I used. I’m going to post a few links that may be useful to you:
Portainer (start at 3 mins) - https://youtu.be/_3XR1gx0lVo
By the way, remember to change the port forwarding on your router for your Duck DNS to your NUC IP - I spent 5 days trying to solve why I did not have remote access until I realised I hadn’t changed the port forwarding on the router to the NUC’s IP.