Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
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Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#2I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems far more straightforward. I will look at this, however, since it might be simpler still.
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#3I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems f…
Caddy user here... definitely interesting to me.
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#4I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems f…
It makes my morning that this might be useful to someone aside from myself. I went down a similar path trying to find something mindless to route traffic to small projects I tend to run on raspberry pi's around the house, which resulted in this being made.
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#5I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems f…
I spent the past weekend setting up a VPS for a personal project, and Caddy worked wonderfully well. All I needed was HTTPS for a server, and a two line Caddyfile gave me that:
reverse_proxy localhost:8000
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#6A little bit of docs would help. Not sure what a node is here, and what is mDNS doing.
Seems like the perfect thing for me (I run a stupid dual-traefik setup that does TLS SNI negotiation for me that I want to get rid of), but I can't figure out what is this.
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#7I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems f…
BIND provides DNS that just works. :)
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#8I’m in the process of building out a smallish home lab, with most things running in containers, and one of the things I wanted was dns for my internal things that Just Worked. It seems this is still harder than it needs to be. I started looking at Consul + Traefik, but the latest version of Traefik seems to have gotten significantly more complex for simple use cases. I’ve since started looking at Caddy, which seems f…
+1 for Caddy.
I have been using it for years now for my personal stuff (almost all containers) and it's a breeze (the https part especially). I recently [0] added SSO for all my local stuff so I just have to login once and have access to everything.
[0] https://joshstrange.com/securing-your-self-hosted-apps-with-...
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#9Hope this isn’t too off topic, but does anyone happen to know if there’s any way to VPN with mDNS so that iTunes syncing and/or media sharing work remotely?
Re: Show HN: Switchboard – A mDNS based reverse proxy for personal infrastructure
#10A little bit of docs would help. Not sure what a node is here, and what is mDNS doing. Seems like the perfect thing for me (I run a stupid dual-traefik setup that does TLS SNI negotiation for me that I want to get rid of), but I can't figure out what is this.
very very fair.
mDNS is just the method of communicating what traffic should be sent where. The "switchboard" listens for mDNS broadcasts that tell it what services want traffic routed to them under what conditions. A "node" (which was a bad choice of words) is the other side of that, a program broadcasting one of those mDNS resources (e.g. send traffic that's been sent to the domain "example.test" to this machine on port 8080)