As I start to host more and more services on my home server, my family and friends are interested in using some of the services I host as well. Up to now, all of my services have been internal-only, and my wife and I just use Tailscale to access everything. Getting others set up with tailscale isn’t an issue, but I can only have up to 4 other users before I have to pay to add more, and I have more than 4 people I would like to have access to some of the things I host.
Right now I’m using cloudflare tunnels to make some services available externally. I’m behind CGNAT, so I’m forced to use something like tunnels or similar. I’ve always read that if you are going to open things up externally to use a reverse proxy (which I use internally), but does this still apply with cloudflare tunnels? What else should I be looking at to make sure I have everything secured properly?
This is close to make my setup is as well, mine is all in docker though and with a treafik reverse proxy as the only entrypoint. To help minimize my security risk I have a few middlewares, crowdsec and geofilter. Everyone that requires access are all in one country so I drop all other connections.
I do have private and internal applications as well and use Netbird self-hosted over tailscale.
Also because docker networking can be a little permissive I updated the nftables to drop attempted requests to my local network.
I never heard of pangelin thanks for bringing my attention to it.