Hi! I'm using traefik as reverse proxy for my homelab. Would it be possible to combine Pangolin with it while preserving already defined routes and services? Or do I need to run separate instance of traefik for Pangolin behind already existing one?
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#122Would Pangolin "integrate naturally" with something like Dokploy? Or is more meant to "replace" it? Could you make a Dokploy template to let people deploy it easily?
From the little I understand about it I think you may be able to deploy Pangolin on it. Would need to do some research. But you could also use Pangolin to provide access to a self hosted Dokploy application I think.
Nice, because Dokploy also uses Traefik to give a reverse proxy access to the services deployed there. Ideally I'd keep it that way, and also use Pangolin in order to add a login for services which don't "natively" have one, in order to protect access, how would I go about doing that?
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
Would be nice if there were a mini-tutorial in the doc for each of the use-cases you mention here, so we could quickly test it and see if it helps
Coming soon! We are going to do a docs revamp!
BTW check the tutorial for Incus it's great! Don't know if you can do something similar with Pangolin but this would be amazing to get a sense of what's possible to do!
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't want to defend plex too hard, but I was super confused by what you were talking about: > But suddenly one day your free mobile viewer app updates and requires payment to stream your own mp4 files I have a plex server that a dozen of my friends and family use and none of them have to pay a cent to access it. Then after thinking about it a bit longer, I remembered that plex was making some kind of distinction a…
I haven't found this to be the case. I use the free plex server on Windows and MacOS, and connect to my home boxes from my phone. Prior to April 2025, I could stream on my phone from my Plex servers anytime. Since the last update, attempting to stream from any device that's not on the same LAN as the server pops up a window asking you to subscribe if you want to stream "remotely". This is even in cases where nothing…
Are you connected via the same account or a separate one added to as a friend or whatever?
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tailscale (and headscale) is great for internal access to something that night not have public internet access. Others have mentioned an example of keeping a NAS off the public internet. Cloudflare tunnels help expose a service to the internet with a bit more protection. I have seen folks use both tailscale to access the backend and the public side is only Cloudflare tunnels. It’s not unreasonable to point Cloudflare…
I'm using caprover on a Linux VM with tailscale and cloudflare. Works great, it does require some tinkering because caprover doesn't like not being in control of SSL, and the nginx configs need to be manually edited per app if you want to set up headers for cloudflare real ip and stuff.
Sounds like a nice setup.
I like being able to choose if I don’t want to maintain or think about it again, then going one direction.
If it’s something I will be tinkering with, a different direction is better.
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#127Does this work well behind Docker Swarm or is it not designed for that?
Yes I think so. I know it works quiet well in compose but as you scale to swarm I am not sure if there would be pains. You can just pop the connector into your compose stack and it will connect to anything in the docker network which we personally do to host some of our basic infrastructure.
Thanks for the comment
Looks like it depends on bridge networking according the sample docker-compose.yml in the docs. Unfortunately, Docker Swarm eschews bridging, but I'm going to poke at it anyway and see if I can get it to work
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#128This project sounds really interesting as an alternative to cloudflare and for decentralizating the internet, but for some low traffic home server what would I gain with using it instead of directly exposing a single port on my home server with nginx, I have static IP from my ISP, right now it is exposed as the server IP, what would I gain if I use a cheap vps as a proxy first?
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#129How does this play on kubernetes?
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#130This is super exciting! The “Cloudflare Tunnel” lock-in has always bugged me, so seeing an open source option is genuinely refreshing. I’m especially curious how Pangolin handles the gritty stuff—flaky networks, authentication headaches, scaling up when things get real. If anyone’s kicked the tires on this in the wild, how does it compare to the “it just works” magic of Cloudflare? Bonus points if you’ve wrangled it…
Pangolin keeps evolving. Here's a great overview from 3 months ago, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VdwOL7nYkY