Looking For Opinions on Docker + Letsencrypt + Reverse Proxy Setup

hispeedzintarwebz@kbin.social to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 8 points –

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

I'll throw in SWAG as another option which I found was easiest to setup, albeit it on a VPN/local only setup. It supports certbot for SSL and pre-defined proxy configs for various services (mostly linuxserver.io containers but there are others) and it's easy to edit them to make your own configs. I'm not sure about portainer support as I'm not familiar with that.

I have pertainer served over swag/tailscale and it works fine. Plus one to swag tho, pretty straightforward and easy to setup, good community

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

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

I'll look into NPM

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