Automate Let’s Encrypt SSL/TLS certificates in your homelab using acme.sh and Docker. Includes DNS-01 wildcard certs, auto-renewal, and integration with Traefik, Nginx Proxy Manager, and Caddy.
Step-by-step guide to deploying HAProxy with Docker Compose for TCP/HTTP load balancing in your homelab — SSL termination, health checks, stats monitoring, and backend failover with real configuration files.
Complete guide to deploying Nginx with Docker Compose as a reverse proxy and caching layer. Covers multi-service proxying, static file caching, gzip compression, SSL termination, and performance tuning for homelab environments.
Complete guide to deploying Authentik with Docker Compose and integrating it with Traefik as a forward-auth SSO provider for centralized authentication, MFA, and access policies across all homelab services.
Run Cloudflare Tunnel in Docker to expose homelab services through Cloudflare’s edge. No open firewall ports, automatic HTTPS, and per-service ingress rules via a single cloudflared container.
If your Docker homelab has more than three web services, you need a reverse proxy. Without one, every container exposes its own port, you manage certificates by hand (or skip HTTPS entirely), and changing a service’s URL means editing Nginx configs and reloading. Traefik solves all of this. It watches the Docker socket, discovers new containers automatically, provisions Let’s Encrypt certificates for any hostname you define via Docker labels, and handles middleware (auth, rate limiting, headers) without touching a static config file. ...