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So I'm in the process of (re-) setting up my homelab and unsure about how to handle databases. Many images require a database, which the docker-compose usually provides inside the stack....

Mooching off this other post

Primary question: What do people do for their reverse proxies (and associated ACME clients)? Do you have a single unified one? Or do you use separate proxies for each stack? Or some mess in between?

My use case question: For example, I have a (mess that is a) Nextcloud instance with a separate stack with nginx and ACME, a SearXng that wants to run caddy (but has shoved into the nginx).

But now I have a Lemmy docker that has a custom(?) nginx instance, should I just port it to my existing nginx or run them side by side?

  • witten@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Since nobody has responded to the ACME / Let’s Encrypt part of the question yet, I’ll chime in: I also use Traefik as a reverse proxy (and an ACME client), but I recently switched from the TLS challenge to the DNS challenge. That required switching my DNS server from CoreDNS to PowerDNS, but thus far it seems totally worth it. Now I can easily get TLS certs for servers on my private network at home without opening them up to the internet for HTTP/TLS challenges.