Dockge allows you to start/stop containers and edit your compose files from a handy ui.
Pros: if something goes wrong while you’re away, it would give you a tool to restart a service or make some changes if necessary.
Cons: exposing that much control to the outside world (even behind a log in) can potentially be catastrophic for your stack if someone gets in.
It would mean you’re entrusting the entire security of your network to Dockge’s authentication system.
… and for that reason, I’m out.
I use portainer behind tail scale. Easy management anywhere and no publicly available access.
I have my portainer behind an oath proxy, using keycloak as the Auth provider
Indeed, tailscale/wireguard/zerotier are excellent options to keep only the bare minimum (or even nothing!) exposed to the world.
I wouldn’t trust anything like that to the open internet. It would be better to access the system over a VPN when you’re outside the network.
I could see that, but I would also have to ask ‘what exactly do we gain by having access to these tools when we aren’t home?’
I used to try to do all of that but I started to realize, I spend too much time dealing with broken shit. Coming to the mindset of if I’m not home and it doesn’t work then oh well has been one hell of a stress relief for me
Yeah, I think it really depends on use case. Like, I’m trying to imagine what aspect of my home lab could go so wrong, while I’m out of the house, that it would need fixed right away, and there’s nothing. I only leave my house for work or maybe a week of vacation, though, and I can imagine someone who’s occasionally away from home/house for 6-month deployments, or has a vacation home they only visit four weekends a year, might want more extensive remote maintenance. I’d still want to do that via ssh or vpn, but that’s me.
This is pretty much my situation. “Away from home” for me isn’t just a trip to the shops, it means being away for weeks at a time. I need to be able to fix things remotely if needed.
I’ve seen people recommend SSH, which seems worse because that would give potential hackers access to the whole system.
VPN is a very good suggestion, and what I’ve implemented now. Thank you to everyone who contributed
I do ssh because I’m more comfortable with it: it’s ubiquitous and as close to bulletproof as any security. Put it on a nonstandard port, restrict authentication to public keys, and I have no qualms.
Stick to strong keys and keep it on 22 for ease of use
Don’t
Also I find it easy to just write a docker compose.
I’ll take “big red flags” for $1000
Use wireguard
I’m using tailscale (which I hear is just a wrapper for wireguard) and love it.
Should be fine I have never used it in a man. I think it would be difficult to use it in a man with all the blood and other stuff.
I would much prefer to just ssh
