I’ve been researching different ways to expose Docker containers to the internet. I have three services I want to expose: Jellyfin, Omnivore (Read-it-later app), and Overseerr.

I’ve come across lots of suggestions, like using Nginx with Cloudflared, but some people mention that streaming media goes against Cloudflared tunnel TOS, and instead recommend Tailscale, or Traefik, or setting up a WireGuard VPN, or using Nginx with a WireGuard VPN.

The amount of conflicting advice has left me confused. So, what would be the best approach to securely expose these containers?

  • slazer2au
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    11 month ago

    Nothing is stopping me from making a certificate from my offline CA for your domain.

    Even if you don’t trust the certificate the traffic is still encrypted.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 month ago

      Yea that’s the whole trusting trust thing. You can theoretically set up hour browser to only trust your private CA and not trust any of the publicly trusted CAs. Depends on your threat model I suppose.