Route domain name to Docker containers on Synology NAS?
I'm sure I'm massively overthinking this, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have a domain name that I bought through NameCheap and I've pointed it to Cloudflare (i.e. updated the name servers). I have a Synology NAS on which I run Docker and a few containers. Up until now I've done this using IP addresses and ports to access everything (I have a Homepage container running and just link to everything from there).
But I want to setup SSL and start running Vaultwarden, hence purchasing a domain name to make it all easier.
I tried creating an A record in Cloudflare to point to the internal IP of my NAS (and obviously, this couldn't be orange-clouded through CF because it's internal to my LAN). I'm very reluctant to point the A record to the external IP of my NAS (which, for added headache is dynamic, so I'd need to get some kind of DDNS) because I don't want to expose everything on my NAS to the Internet. In actual fact, I'm not precious about accessing any of this stuff over the internet - if I need remote access I have a Tailscale container running that I can connect to (more on that later in the post). The domain name was purely for ease of setting up SSL and Vaultwarden.
So I guess my questions are:
What is the best way to go about this - do I create a DDNS on the NAS and point that external IP address to my domain in Cloudflare, then use Traefik to just expose the containers I want to have access to using subdomains?
If so, then how do I know that all other ports aren't accessible (I assume because I'm only going to expose ports 80 and 443 in Traefik?)
What do other people see (i.e. outside my network) if they go to my domain? How do I ensure they can't access my NAS and see some kind of page?
Is there a benefit to using Cloudflare?
How would Pi-hole and local DNS fit into this? I guess I could point my router at Pi-hole for DNS and create my A records on Pi-hole for all my subdomains - but what do I need to setup initially in Cloudflare?
I also have a RPi that has a (very basic) website on it - how do I setup an A record to have Cloudflare point a sub-domain to the Pi's IP address?
Going back to the Tailscale thing - is it possible to point the domain to the IP address of the Tailscale container, so that the domain is only accessible when I switch on the Tailscale VPN? Is this a good idea/bad idea? Is there a better way to do it?
I'm sure these are all noob-type questions, but for the past 6-7 years I've purely used this internally using IP:port combinations, so never had to worry about domain names and external exposure, etc.
If using Docker, then just setup NGINX Proxy Manager. It has Let's Encrypt built in, so you literally just fill out a few fields, ask for a new certificate, provide your email, and BAM!, all done.
Before I was using Traefik I used to use plain NGINX and was pretty happy with it. I made the switch to Traefik after reading some good things about it on Reddit.
More than happy to switch to NPM and give it a try. At this point I have no reverse proxy running at all, so not even like I have to swap out Traefik — there’s nothing they’re to begin with.