Does anyone have a guide to Traefik for an absolute idiot (myself)?
I was able to get a freshrss server running using dockercompose and was able to connect to it on my local network, but all the guides I read said I NEED to have a reverse proxy before I access it remotely.
This is probably my sign I need to actually learn how to use docker instead of being lazy as hell and copy/pasting code, but I thought I’d ask.
As stated before you don’t need a reverse proxy. Since you are exposing port 8080 ( if you stuck the config on the docker hub page; “-p 8080:80”) it is reachable from everywhere, where you have access to that machine.
A reverse proxy can expose many different services running either on the same machine or from a remote. As long as the reverse proxy is in the same docker network (usually “default”) it can access your services without their ports exposed.
You can configure the reverse proxy to decide which backend service to call by path, dns name or other patterns.
A reverse proxy can also do TLS termination and get certificates from let’s encrypt, so the backend services don’t have to deal with it.
So if you run more than one service on the same machine and want to use TLS you normally want to use a reverse proxy.
I personally use traefik because I used to but I also used nginx and caddy. Whatever works for you. But I agree that caddy is easier to get going without a lot of boilerplate config.
