Anything easier than manually setting up reverse proxy confs for 30+ docker apps?

[plantsandbinary]

Hey folks.

 

I'm trying to setup access to a lot of my docker apps from outside my home network. It'd be nice to have a landing page like Heimdall with links to the webUI's of all of my docker apps that I am using.

 

The thing is, setting up a reverse proxy config for each and every one of them is really troubelsome. Especially when some docker apps use VNC and require a lot of extra messing around with websockets and redirects etc. I'm starting to think that this may not be the most appropriate way to do this.

 

I feel like it should be so much easier than this and that there has to be a better way.

 

How do you all access your docker app's WebGUI from outside your home network? What methods do you find the easiest.

[primeval_god]

Look into Traefik, it is a reverse proxy that make it much easier to proxy docker containers.

[saarg]

VPN! 

[rorton]

VPN has gotta be the easiest

[primeval_god]

After re-reading your post, and realizing the question was

On 7/25/2018 at 8:09 AM, plantsandbinary said:

How do you all access your docker app's WebGUI from outside your home network? What methods do you find the easiest.

I am going to back track and agree that a VPN is the easiest/best way to access most docker apps outside your home network. I use this method myself for most things. That said, if you are determined to use a reverse proxy, which I also use for a few specific applications, then Traefik is a much easier solution for docker containers than say nginx.  

[plantsandbinary]

How easy is traefik to setup? I already have a router and I dunno if I want to mess with using a virtual router but at the same time if it really can automatically reverse proxy all of my docker apps without any problems and without me spending forever to set it up then I'd gladly use it.