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There is no outside, by definition.
We also don't know for sure wether it's infinite, since we can only see the "observable universe"
If we are considering "the universe" to mean the spacetime that we exist in, there could be an "outside," but we just don't know, and there's no indication of such an outside, or anything about what it would be like.
By way of infinite spacetime, yes, there is only a part of spacetime that we can observe, because the farthest part is moving away from us faster than the speed of light. I seem to recall there having been some estimations of how large all of spacetime is, observable and unobservable, and that it has a finite size.
That said, there does not appear to be a limit to the size of spacetime. Based on what is currently known, spacetime is expanding, the expansion is accelerating, and there is no limit to the expansion.
Honest question: if “nothing is faster than the speed of light,” then how could the universe be expanding faster than the fastest thing?
ELI5: If I'm moving away from you at 50 KPH and you're moving away from me in the opposite direction at 50 KPH then after 1 hour we will be 100 kilometers away from each other even though the speed limit is 75 and neither of us broke it.
That's an extreme reduction but gets the general idea across.