SelfHosting - 1st Half 2025

Lately, it was all about…Traefik to get programatic https for homelab services!

While exploring TinyAuth, I revisited the Jims Garage guide on Traefik v3.

Tinkering with Traefik v3

Together with TinyAuth as authentication

TinyAuth x Traefik x Flask

Source Code with a Flask App working with the authentication middleware

It was also the time to set a LogTo example which is an option to bring authentication capabilities to your webapps.

TL;DR

Discovering lazydocker tool has been very interesting, together with Makefile and uv package manager.

sudo apt  install golang-go
go install github.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker@latest

# docker run --rm -it -v \
# /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock \
# -v /yourpath:/.config/jesseduffield/lazydocker \
# lazyteam/lazydocker

• A better NextCloud Setup
• Better P2P Setup and Monitoring: from apps to internet speed
• Some interesting In Home Tools
• Mid year iteration (06/25) of the Home Lab container Setup

In the meantime…

People keep doing awsome stuff: this time with solar energy

I expect to write a post about solar panels soon (relating it with micro-controllers).

Improvements

Better Backup and media management is always welcome in any homelab.

Ive been improving my Nextcloud setup, together with the photo management tools.

Keeping my references for new ideas clear:

• https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted
• https://selfh.st/

Nextcloud with Https

Getting Better at sync file tools

• https://github.com/9001/copyparty/

MIT | Portable file server with accelerated resumable uploads, dedup, WebDAV, FTP, TFTP, zeroconf, media indexer, thumbnails++ all in one file, no deps

But the big thing is to get nextcloud to work with https out of the box.

All thanks to getting Traefik (traefik:v3.3) to work programatically!

So I just needed to get the domain DNS records accordingly:

nslookup nextcloud.jalcocertech.com

docker exec -it nextcloud /bin/bash
cd /var/www/html/config/
nano config.php

#docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php occ config:list system | grep trusted_domains -A 10
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:get trusted_domains #See how many you have, and put the next
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 2 --value="192.168.1.11"
docker exec -u www-data nextcloud php /var/www/html/occ config:system:set trusted_domains 3 --value="nextcloud.jalcocertech.com"

Going from this: https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/selfhosted-apps-spring-2025/#nextcloud

To this:

remember to use the Android or iOS app

• https://jalcocert.github.io/JAlcocerT/sync-file-tools/#webdavs

• https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/31/user_manual/en/files/access_webdav.html

dav://reisikei@192.168.1.11:8080/remote.php/webdav
davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.yourdomain.duckdns.org/remote.php/webdav
davs://your_nc_user@nextcloud.jalcocertech.com/remote.php/webdav

To setup nextcloud leveraging the https of traefik

I got a transfer speed of ~15mb/s via wifi:

nload
#nload wlp3s0

You can also use the desktop app:

flatpak install flathub com.nextcloud.desktopclient.nextcloud

See the transfer speed with:

sudo apt install nload
#ip a
nload wlp3s0

Got a transfer speed of , compared to the ~60MB/s avg to ProtonDrive

You can now enable other devices or create accounts for your friends/family:

Third Party Cloud NC Backup

Last month i tried protondrive with rclone https://github.com/JAlcocerT/Docker/tree/main/Backups#rclone

1. ProtonDrive

2. Google Drive

PortMaster and https

If you are using portmaster, you might need to disable DNS config -> Enforce global/private-split view

So that the nextcloud configured via Traefik and tailscale DSN will work

The DNSs

Its all about the DNS.

And I saw on this post that there is an EU alternative to cloudflare, goodle, quad9 and many other DNS: https://www.joindns4.eu/for-public#resolver-options

Lately, I evne learnt how to modify Cloudflare DNS records via its API with a Python script

Monitoring

Beszel has been an interesting tools for monitoring:

Beszel Setup

Monitoring Tools Post | With Beszel 101 Setup

On that post I also talked about Tianji, which is something more than a Web Analytics tool.

You will need a website to monitor (and probably a headlessCMS)

• Grafana: for monitoring or IoT projects

To Monitor LLMs and other Apps, I also collected few OSS Tools:

Internet Speed

I was writting about Server monitoring and internet speed tools here.

I got to now a new interesting tool: https://github.com/orb-community/orb

• https://orb.net/docs/setup-sensor/docker
  • https://orb.net/

MPL2 | Orb is a dynamic network observability platform with agent fleet orchestration and data pipelines with OpenTelemetry

apt-get install -y iputils-ping

sudo apt-get install speedtest-cli
speedtest-cli #speedtest-cli --simple

P2P

You can find things to share

Isnt it great when people give credits??

In these kind of blogs you can find interesting DIY stuff, like crypto monero

This is how the admin UI looks like:

In Home Tools

1. Reubah: Open source file converter with img background removal coming soon

2. Tools Photo related and tech for trips:

Tech for a Trip

Hardware & Softw setup for traveling

Photo Tools

PiGallery, PhotoView, Immich…

For more photo/video tricks, see also:

3. IT/Toos + OmniTools

4. Specters: Some kind of ~ filebrowser, but better?

• https://github.com/Phantom8015/Specters

MIT | A linux web interface

docker run -p 3001:3000 phantom8016/specters:latest

5. PortTracker: if you like PortMaster, you might be interested on this

HomeLab Diagrams

I was very surprised to find out that you can embed https://docs.excalidraw.com/docs/@excalidraw/excalidraw/integration into your websites!

A very interesting to share homelab diagrams with your friends/family.

You could also do the classic Mermaid inside a SliDev PPT: https://sli.dev/features/mermaid

To have a rendered pdf with instructions how to access your selfhosted services

Conclusions

I have discovered about lazydocker:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jesseduffield/lazydocker/master/scripts/install_update_linux.sh | bash
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
lazydocker

You can press ? to see further commands, but basically you can just select a container and get exec it directly to it without writing docker CLI commands :)

for containers you can also look to podman desktop, orbstack (paid),

And tmux has also been great:

sudo apt install tmux
#tmux

Termix, is another service that has also been great to manage couple of homelab devices:

http://192.168.1.11:8090

You have NextTerm as an alternative: https://noted.lol/nexterm/

If you will be connecting to remote computers, remember to:

1. Set proper expiry policy into your tailscale
2. Have a look to RustDesk as Remote Desktop Solution

flatpak install flathub com.rustdesk.RustDesk

Filebrowser dev has been abandoned and for me it was still a thing to combine it with PiGallery2.

But now we have filebrowser quantum!

Also, Ive been tinkering a lot with authentication via Logto.

If you are looking for this post edition’s config files:

Docker Repository

Collection of Docker Config Files - 0625 Edition 🐳 ↗

Home-Lab Github Repository

Ordered config files | Youtube Video friendly 🐳 ↗

SelfHosting Resources: If you want more inspiration

• https://openalternative.co/self-hosted
• https://devsuite.co/collections/open-source

With gemini CLI and similar vibe coding tools, its been much easier to spin new services:

AI CLI Tools

Tinkering with GeminiCLI | Post

TinyAuth x Traefik x Flask

Source Code with a Flask App working with the authentication middleware

People are still doing cool stuff with the Pis

FAQ

HomeLab Commands

1. Whats taking that much space?

#sudo du -ahx / | sort -rh | head -n 50
sudo du -ahx . | sort -rh | head -n 50 #from current folder and below

2. I want to clean old container stuff

docker builder prune
#docker system prune -a
docker volume prune
docker image prune -a