Does anyone have a guide to Traefik for an absolute idiot (myself)?
I was able to get a freshrss server running using dockercompose and was able to connect to it on my local network, but all the guides I read said I NEED to have a reverse proxy before I access it remotely.
This is probably my sign I need to actually learn how to use docker instead of being lazy as hell and copy/pasting code, but I thought I’d ask.
No, you don’t need a reverse proxy. If you’re accessing anything remotely, I highly recommend just setting up a VPN instead of exposing a bunch of different services to the Internet.
That said, traefik is dead simple. There’s an example for docker-compose here: https://doc.traefik.io/traefik/user-guides/docker-compose/basic-example/
It’s not completely secure, but I only use it so that I can access my services by name and over HTTPS. I don’t have anything exposed to the Internet.
In my setup I still use reverse proxy even though all of my services are inside a VPN. IMO it is just more convenient to have services accesible as subdomains or subdirectory than as different ports.
+1 for this, add Tailscale DNS or similar on top plus a local redirect and you have easy access to it all through the same unified FQDN no matter if local, remote through an exposed Caddy, or remote through your VPN.
Techno Tim did a good video on traefik
Consider Caddy … just uninstalled Traefik in favor of Caddy
Or you could consider using Caddy instead: https://caddyserver.com/docs/quick-starts/reverse-proxy
+1 for caddy. I had some issues with traefik and switched to caddy and it’s so easy!
Just need to learn the more advanced stuff for the Caddyfile like error redirects and what not.
I installed npm (Nginx Proxy Manager) without problems before I heard about Caddy.
Npm works well and requires zero maintenance, and it’s easy to manually add redirects via the web ui when I start new Docker containers.
“If it works, don’t fix it.” But if I didn’t have npm today I would try Caddy.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters DNS Domain Name Service/System HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web IP Internet Protocol SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL VPN Virtual Private Network nginx Popular HTTP server
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