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  • I actually registered two different domains. I think using .lan or .internal would work like that. Essentially from the client machine, it needs to be able to resolve the domain name to the IP of your internal service. So say from your home PC you want to have grue.com resolve to your server. One way to do that is have a host entry on your PC to point grue.com to your server IP address. That way is easy to do and works great but will get annoying if you have multiple client machines.

    Another way is if you have a local DNS server that can add locally defined DNS records. Pi-hole can do this, so that way any client machine that goes through Pi-hole will be routed to your server IP.



  • Register a domain if you haven’t already. I did two, one for internal and one for external. If you want something easy to setup, use nginx. I’m sure there are guides out there to add Let’s Encrypt SSL certs to nginx. I personally use Let’s Encrypt with Traefik as my reverse proxy. Traefik has a little bit of a learning curve, but once you have it setup and working, it’s pretty easy to update and move around.

    Once you have your reverse proxy working with a SSL cert, you can start looking at different options to expose your containers. Probably the easiest method is to point your domain to your home IP address and on your router setup port forwarding. I’m not a fan of that because it’s probably the most risky exposing ports to the wide internet.

    Another option is tunneling, which I think is the best. Cloudflare tunnels is pretty popular and I believe are still free. I have a cheap VPS that I have a Wireguard tunnel setup. With either tunnel option you don’t have to make any changes to your home network or firewall.