I finally decided that I wanted to be able to externally access some of my Docker containers from outside of my local network. I don’t want to deal with the security hassle of exposing ports on my router, so I decided to go with Tailscale.

All of my container web services are run through traefik and are accessed using hostnames I set up on my DNS server. How would I go about accessing the different web services externally since the hostnames don’t resolve?

  • Atemu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    Get yourself a domain name. It doesn’t cost a whole lot and also allows you to complete DNS-01 challenges for SSL certs. It’s also, like, your own. That’s also a requirement for owning your email address.
    (If you really don’t want to pay and don’t care about email, you can also use a shared domain DNS such as dedyn.io.)

    You then simply set records to the Tailscale IP addresses of the hosts and you’re good to go. Alternatively, you can also set them to the hosts’ LAN subnet addresses and forward your subnet via a single subnet router; that’s how I do it.

    • WASTECH@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      I own 3 different domains and just today set up SSL services for them using Traefik (made another post for an issue I’m having with that).

      I ended up doing a subnet router and that got me what I was looking for.

    • WASTECH@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      5 months ago

      That is almost the exact same thing I am doing. I have 2 Pi’s running PiHole in HA and I just made one of them the subnet router to allow this access. Since I will be the only one using this, I don’t care to use Funnel right now, but thanks for showing that to me. I am (obviously) new to using Tailscale, and that looks like a very neat feature.

  • JoeKrogan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    5 months ago

    I use wireguard and nginx but I set my WG DNS as the server ip. I have adguardhome running on the server and have added the external domains to map to their LAN address so theyre resolved locally when using the vpn or the LAN. A similar setup should work for you.

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
    11·
    5 months ago

    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
    HA Home Assistant automation software
    ~ High Availability
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    IP Internet Protocol
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    nginx Popular HTTP server

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