After starting few containers on Docker, the one problem nobody mentions, and quite frankly, none of the installation guides talk about, is the web UI management. Not a management UI of a single project, but managing the UIs, the plural. More and more user friendly open source projects are adopting web UI as baseline, yet, the only method these projects openly recommend is connecting via IP address. If you were using a NAS like I am, it would end up looking like this: NAS_ip_address:port. Now don’t forget all the other ports NAS is already using, along with additional ports these…
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App to DDNS with API for Local HTTPS Certificate
I’m still in the process of writing up the Caddy + DuckDNS post, but I thought to make a separate post anyway what DDNS is and why I am writing about DuckDNS for the particular home lab setup. DDNS is often used for home or small office environment, when the IP address to the said network is not fixed. ISP usually ask extra for fixed IP address. DDNS effectively keeps the record of your machine’s public IP, thereby connecting to the said DDNS domain would lead back to home.