On my Lan I have 192.168.1.111 hosting a bunch of various services not containerized. All connections are done either from my internal lan or from wireguard going through 192.168.1.111 so no external traffic bar wireguard.

I’ve set the host name of 111 in the hosts file inside the router and 111 and it works for all devices expect the ones connecting via wireguard.

But I dont want to have to use hostname+port for every service, I’d like each service to have its own name. I’d also like certs.

Can someone point me in the right direction for what I need to do? I’m thinking maybe this requires a local DNS server which im hesitant to run because im happy using 8.8.8.8.

For certs do I create a single cert on the 192.168.1.111 and then point all the applications to it?

  • LievitoPadre@feddit.itEnglish
    9·
    6 months ago

    You need a thing called reverse proxy. There are many available.

    Some suggested nginx, I recommend to give a try to caddy. It’s easier than nginx and includes the certificate management as well.

  • ReticulatedPasta@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    6 months ago

    This would be done either via a reverse proxy (for public access via a domain you own, ex: service1.reticulatedpasta.com), or via a local DNS server if only being accessed via LAN without a signed SSL cert. For a reverse proxy, I use caddy which also manages SSL certs.

  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    I don’t see anyone else recommending it here but you can also use Traefik, that’s what I use. I’ve set it up so that I can automatically add any docker hosted apps based on the container tags, it makes it convenient to use.

  • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    6 months ago

    As others have said, reverse proxy. My experience is with Caddy and LetsEncrypt. If you wanted to step it up a couple notches, you could go with Cloudflare tunnels/zero trust. With the latter scenario, you’ll need a domain name that you can change the nameservers to Cloudflare assigned nameservers. With the Cloudflare option, you don’t have to fiddle with ports, UFW, or NAT. Just install on your server and it punches a fully encrypted tunnel.

  • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    6 months ago

    Reverse proxies! They can redirect based on the dns name used to get to them. This is based on layer 7 data though so just http(s) services and not multiple ssh tunnels for example.

    k3s/rke2 (k8s distros) do it automatically with Traefik when you use the gateway or ingres apis

    Also for DNS a fun option is sslip.io which lets you do <some service>-192-168-1-10.sslip.io and it redirects to your ip but with a dns name added.

    Though your router likely has an easy way to add local entries for dns and also upstream for the rest (i.e. 8.8.8.8)