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Looking For Opinions on Docker + Letsencrypt + Reverse Proxy Setup (kbin.social)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by hispeedzintarwebz@kbin.social to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I've been running 2 linodes for a number of years now - one has my website (wordpress) on it and one has a Foundry VTT server running. Both are separate linodes, and I use Google Domains to point [site.tld] to the wordpress VPS and foundry.[site.tld] to the other linode.

For a few services I run at home within my own network (Sonarr, Lidarr, Plex, etc.) I've started to use Docker and Portainer, and I like how easy it is to set things up (and remove them if they don't work). I'd like to redo my VPS similarly - I'd like to have a single linode, as a Docker host, and have the main domain point to a Wordpress container, a subdomain point to a Foundry container, and be able to easily add other containers for something like freshrss, etc. My goal is to be able to quickly spin up a docker via a compose file (portainer would be preferred), have it automatically reach out to letsencrypt to get a cert for the relevant subdomain, and have that subdomain point to that docker container.

I've been doing some searching around, and there seem to be a number of options, things like nginx reverse proxy, traefik, etc. and there are a lot of conflicting results.

Does anyone here have an opinion on this or some advice as to what the best option to look into might be?

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[–] useful_idiot@lemmy.eatsleepcode.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Traefik really shines when you have an orchestrator like k8s/nomad automatically driving its config via labels.

[–] matt@lemmy.piperservers.net 1 points 1 year ago

I have had an issue with updates to Nginx Proxy Manager breaking itself in the past so I switched to Traefik.

NPM is much more user-friendly when it works. However, as mentioned, Traefik integrates directly with docker through labels, making it very convenient if not a bit more of a learning curve.

So far, the only annoyance I have with Traefik is that I haven't found a very easy way to host itself on a separate server from where the containers are running because it uses the docker.sock file to pick up the labels on running containers automatically. Instead, I manually create files for the files provider. I don't think this is an issue if you are using Kubernetes, but I haven't gotten all the way down that road quite yet, as it is a bit overkill for me.

[–] KitchenNo2246@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

NPM is great! I even use it in a production environment at work for a small service and it works beautifully

[–] hispeedzintarwebz@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awesome, thanks! That's 2 votes for NPM so far

[–] smegger@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've found npm to be fairly easy to setup. But I'm not far from your situation, trying out various options to see what works best for me

[–] hispeedzintarwebz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

That's pretty much where I am. This isn't my day job, it's something I mess with for fun and so I'd like to make it easy not just to set up but to expand if necessary, and easy enough that if I don't touch it for a year and come back to it I won't be completely clueless!

[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a 3rd to convince you even more, I have it running on several instances.

[–] knaak@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use NPM which is also a docker image and has automatic let's encrypt and a nice interface. Nginx Proxy Manager.

[–] hispeedzintarwebz@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks for the reply. (My first reply on my first Kbin post, I'll add!)

I'll look into NPM

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