Pterodactyl Wings: Scaling Past One Node
Add a second Wings node to Pterodactyl without breaking the web console: per-node TLS, firewall ports, VPN gotchas, subnet clashes, and server transfers.
Tag: docker
All the articles with the tag "docker".
step-ca: Let's Encrypt for Your LAN
Run step-ca as a private ACME server so Caddy and Traefik auto-issue and renew TLS certs for grafana.home.arpa, with no internet exposure and no CT log leaks.
Container Restart Storms at 2 AM
A triage runbook for a Docker or Kubernetes container stuck in a restart loop: read the signals, stop the loop, get a shell, and find the real cause fast.
Rootless Podman Quadlets vs Docker
Rootless Podman Quadlets or rootless Docker for a home lab host? Networking, cgroups, auto-updates, bind mounts and boot behavior compared, with a clear pick.
Read-Only Docker Containers: What Breaks
Turn on read_only: true and watch nginx, Postgres, Redis, Python and Node fail in specific ways. Real errors, plus the minimum tmpfs and volume set for each.
LittleLink vs LinkStack: Ditch Linktree
Replace Linktree with a page you host. LittleLink, LittleLink-Server and LinkStack compared with real image sizes and idle RAM, plus working Docker Compose files.
PHP2Shell: Is Your Homelab Running PHP?
PHP2Shell is two unauthenticated PHP RCE flaws. Find every PHP container in your homelab, patch to the fixed release, and keep Cloudflare's WAF as a seatbelt.
Keycloak vs Authentik vs Authelia
Keycloak, Authentik and Authelia compared on realms, LDAP and AD federation, SAML, OIDC, clustering and RAM, with Compose files and a pick for each use case.
Outline: The Team Wiki That Needs SSO
Outline has no password login, so self-hosting it means pairing it with an OIDC provider. Here is a working Docker stack with Postgres, Redis, and Dex.
Jellyfin GPU Transcoding: Prove It Works
You ticked the hardware acceleration box and the CPU still sits at 100%. How to set up Intel QSV and NVIDIA NVENC in Docker, and how to prove the GPU works.
One PC, Many Players: Steam Headless
Run several Steam Headless v2 containers on one Linux box so a household can play at once, each seat streamed with Moonlight. Compose file, numbers, gotchas.
Database Connection Storms, Explained
Why apps fall over under load: pool size times replicas versus Postgres max_connections, restart herds, retry storms, timeouts, and the configs that fix them.