Reverse Proxy for HA & Onlyoffce

[gatorback (Raymond C)]

CONTEXT

• AMD / 12GB / 1TB SSD
• Docker HA
• WAN ports forwarded for web access: www.mydomain.com

GOAL:

• Install OnlyOffice container to said AMD box
• https://onlyoffice.mydomain.com ==reverse proxy==> OnlyOffice Container
• https://ha.mydomain.com ==reverse proxy==> HomeAssistant’s web server

QUESTIONS:
I understand that Traefic or NGINX can serve as the reverse proxy:

• Is it best practice / Does it make sense to have the reverse proxy in its own container?
• What questions must be asked / answered to decide if Traefic or NGINX is the better choice

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

@gatorback

• Is it best practice / Does it make sense to have the reverse proxy in its own container?

Yes

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• What questions must be asked / answered to decide if Traefic or NGINX is the better choice

Do you want a modern proxy that handles SSL for you (Traefik) or do you want to manage SSL elsewhere (NGINX).

[gatorback (Raymond C)]

Good to hear from you Tinkerer. Thank you for simplifying the decisions. Do you have any “lessons learned” regarding Traefik implemented in containers?

[Tinkerer (aka DubhAd on GitHub)]

Honestly, I just followed the docs. You’ll have to tell it the port to use, something like this added to the compose entry:

    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.homeassistant.rule=Host(`ha.ceard.tech`)"
      - "traefik.http.routers.homeassistant.tls=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.homeassistant.tls.certresolver=zerossl"
      - "traefik.http.routers.homeassistant.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.services.homeassistant.loadBalancer.server.port=8123"

I happen to run HA remote from Traefik, so my setup is subtly different, but Traefik is well documented and has an active forum (plus many people have written great guides).