CloudFlare is a good place for beginners to start. Setting up a reverse proxy can be daunting the first time. Certainly better than no reverse proxy.
That being said, having your own reverse proxy is nice. Better security since the certificates are controlled by your server. Also complex stuff becomes possible.
My traefik uses keys encrypt wild card domains to provide HTTPS for internal LAN only applications (vault warden) while providing external access for other things like seafile.
I also use traefik with authentik for single sign on. Traefik allows me to secure apps like sonarr with single sign on from my authentik setup. So I login once on my browser and I can access many of my apps without any further passwords.
Authentik also allows oAuth so I can use that for seafile, freshrss and immich. Authentik allows jellyfin login with LDAP. (This last paragraph could be setup with CloudFlare as well).
This is the way. My setup is very similar except I only use authentik for Nextcloud. I don’t expose my “arr” services to the Internet so I don’t feel it necessary to put them behind authentik, although I could if I wanted.
Using Duo’s free 10 personal licenses is also great as it can also plug into authentik for MFA through the solution.
The primary reason to put authentik in front of arrs is so I don’t have to keep putting in different password for each when logging in. I disable the authentication for each of them in the app itself and then disable the exposed docker port as well so the only way to access it it via traefik + authentik. It has local access only so isn’t directly exposed to the internet.
10 free accounts on duo is very nice but I hate being locked into things (not self hosted). An open source or self hosted alternative to duo would be great.
CloudFlare is a good place for beginners to start. Setting up a reverse proxy can be daunting the first time. Certainly better than no reverse proxy.
That being said, having your own reverse proxy is nice. Better security since the certificates are controlled by your server. Also complex stuff becomes possible.
My traefik uses keys encrypt wild card domains to provide HTTPS for internal LAN only applications (vault warden) while providing external access for other things like seafile.
I also use traefik with authentik for single sign on. Traefik allows me to secure apps like sonarr with single sign on from my authentik setup. So I login once on my browser and I can access many of my apps without any further passwords.
Authentik also allows oAuth so I can use that for seafile, freshrss and immich. Authentik allows jellyfin login with LDAP. (This last paragraph could be setup with CloudFlare as well).
This is the way. My setup is very similar except I only use authentik for Nextcloud. I don’t expose my “arr” services to the Internet so I don’t feel it necessary to put them behind authentik, although I could if I wanted.
Using Duo’s free 10 personal licenses is also great as it can also plug into authentik for MFA through the solution.
The primary reason to put authentik in front of arrs is so I don’t have to keep putting in different password for each when logging in. I disable the authentication for each of them in the app itself and then disable the exposed docker port as well so the only way to access it it via traefik + authentik. It has local access only so isn’t directly exposed to the internet.
10 free accounts on duo is very nice but I hate being locked into things (not self hosted). An open source or self hosted alternative to duo would be great.