I really love home labs but this sounds incredibly over engineered for its purpose... I would expect a set up like this for an enterprise environment...
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@Xanza Not sure what you mean. I wanted to use my services with my domain. I tried a reverse proxy by itself and it wouldn't work because my ISP blocks ports, so I set up Cloudflare instead. Then I found out my services would work better with Caddy, so I set that up. I also originally wasn't using Unbound, but then I realized my services were having trouble communicating, and I thought it would help to have more control over DNS rules, which it has.
Then I found out my services would work better with Caddy
Exceptional idea. Cloudflare is nice, but Caddy will always win IMO. Additionally, considering you were able to get Caddy working, that simply drives home that unfortunately your reverse_proxy didn't work because it was somehow misconfigured. Caddy is also a reverse_proxy.
My comment is pretty much what I said. You have an extremely complex environment that you're not fully making use of. For example, you're having issues with a reverse_proxy, but you had Tailscale presumably the whole time. Why not just use your VPN to reverse_proxy your requests if you were having issues?
Also using Caddy + Cloudflare is fine if you want to use cloudflare for DNS, however, Caddy handles all certificates itself. So you have Caddy, which can handle all the SSL certs itself, but you put Cloudflare on top of it to manage SSL certs. It's just convoluted.
It's a good environment, but a little overkill.
How did Cloudflare get involved on this setup?
Sounds very cool! If I understand correctly, you are running docker directly on the bare metal Stormux, so no VM in-between. You mentioned using some external provider for backup storage, how exactly do you do the backups themself? Do you have a script/tool that saves the config and app data for each of your services?
@tofuwabohu Yes, I'm running Docker directly on the Raspberry Pi. IDrive automatically backs up the folders you specify at a time you choose. I think it uses Cron or something.
Wow IDrive looks extremely expensive for backups, unless if there is something I am missing.