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.
Complete guide to Traefik middleware security hardening with real-world configs — security headers, rate limiting, IP whitelisting, basic auth, redirect schemes, and chaining middlewares for an A+ security rating.
Deploy CrowdSec with Docker Compose and Traefik to protect your homelab services with collaborative threat intelligence. Covers the LAPI agent, bouncers, collections, custom scenarios, and remediation pipeline with real configs.
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. ...