Category: DevOps

  • Docker Networking Deep Dive: Overlay vs Bridge

    Understanding Docker networking is essential for any homelab. After running 150+ containers across 4 Proxmox hosts, here is what I learned about bridge vs overlay networks. Bridge Networks The default bridge driver creates an isolated network on a single host. Containers can talk to each other by name, but cannot reach containers on other hosts…

  • Building a Self-Hosted Cloudflare with WireGuard and NPM

    When I decided to replace Cloudflare with my own infrastructure, I needed three things: a cheap VPS, a WireGuard tunnel, and Nginx Proxy Manager. Here is how I wired it all together. The tunnel connects my homelab to the public internet through a \/month VPS. Traffic hits the VPS, gets SSL terminated by NPM, then…