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Networking and secure remote access with Docker

Connect and protect your services: ad-blocking DNS (Pi-hole, AdGuard Home), a WireGuard VPN with wg-easy, a reverse proxy with a UI (Nginx Proxy Manager), a password manager (Vaultwarden), home automation (Home Assistant), your own Git (Gitea), a mesh network (Headscale) and a private metasearch engine (SearXNG).

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  1. How to Install Pi-hole with Docker

    Pi-hole is a DNS server that blocks ads and trackers across your whole network. With Docker you install it from a single docker-compose.yml: version 6 embeds the web panel into the pihole-FTL binary, exposes DNS on port 53 and the admin UI on port 80, and is configured with FTLCONF_-prefixed variables.

    • 10 min

  2. How to Install AdGuard Home with Docker

    AdGuard Home is a free, open-source DNS server that blocks ads and trackers across your whole network from a single container. This guide brings it up with Docker Compose, fixes the port 53 conflict, walks through the setup wizard and turns on encrypted DNS and DNS rewrites.

    • 11 min

  3. How to Install Nginx Proxy Manager with Docker

    Nginx Proxy Manager is an open-source reverse proxy that puts a web interface over Nginx and Certbot, so you create proxy hosts and request Let's Encrypt certificates with a few clicks. With Docker it installs as a container next to its database, exposes ports 80, 443 and 81, and spares you from editing Nginx config files by hand.

    • 9 min

  4. How to Set Up a WireGuard VPN with wg-easy in Docker

    wg-easy is the simplest way to self-host a WireGuard VPN: a single container that bundles the server and a web panel to create clients in one click. This guide brings it up with Docker Compose in its version 15, completes the first-run setup wizard on port 51821 and connects your first device with a QR code.

    • 10 min

  5. How to Install Vaultwarden with Docker

    Vaultwarden is a Bitwarden-compatible password server written in Rust and released under the AGPL-3.0 license that barely uses any RAM. This guide brings it up with Docker Compose, publishes it behind a reverse proxy with HTTPS (mandatory for the browser encryption to work), protects the /admin panel with an ADMIN_TOKEN and closes off registration.

    • 10 min

  6. How to Install Gitea with Docker

    Gitea is a self-hosted Git service written in Go, lightweight and a single binary, an alternative to GitHub and GitLab. With Docker you install it from a docker-compose.yml alongside PostgreSQL: it publishes the web interface on port 3000 and Git over SSH on port 22, and is configured with GITEA__ variables. It ships Actions for CI and webhooks.

    • 11 min

  7. How to Install Home Assistant with Docker

    Home Assistant Container is the local home-automation platform installed as a Docker container: an official image, port 8123 and host-mode networking to discover devices. This guide brings it up with docker-compose, covers the first boot and backups, and makes clear it does not include the Supervisor add-on store.

    • 10 min

  8. How to Run Headscale with Docker

    Headscale is a free, self-hosted implementation of the Tailscale control server: it gives you a private WireGuard mesh network without depending on Tailscale's cloud or its plan limits. This guide brings it up with Docker Compose in its version 0.29.2, prepares the config.yaml file, registers the first node and adds a web panel with headscale-ui.

    • 10 min

  9. How to Install SearXNG with Docker

    SearXNG is a free, privacy-respecting metasearch engine that aggregates results from more than 70 services without tracking or profiling you. With Docker you bring it up in a container alongside Valkey, set a secret_key in settings.yml and in minutes you have your own private search engine listening on port 8080.

    • 10 min