if you:
then, you can create your own 👌
setup your traefik 1.x frontends
/backends
. in my case, i wanted t-1.my.domain
and t-2.my.domain
. two always available
endpoints for whatever machine to connect to, which will be routed to a service running on my laptop.
of course you could extend this config to as many tunnels as you like:
# traefik.toml [file] [backends] [backends.t-1] [backends.t-1.servers.t-1] url = "http://localhost:51401" [backends.t-2] [backends.t-2.servers.t-2] url = "http://localhost:51402" [frontends] [frontends.t-1] backend = "t-1" passHostHeader = true [frontends.t-1.routes.t-1] rule = "Host:t-1.my.domain [frontends.t-2] backend = "t-2" passHostHeader = true [frontends.t-2.routes.t-2] rule = "Host:t-2.my.domain"
for the frontends, i picked a high enough local ports that they hopefully won’t clash with any other service running on the server.
i’m also doing a passHostHeader = true
for each backend, so that the request headers for the local proxied-to services have the public frontend hosts instead
of localhost
.
to make the public t-*.my.domain
possible for my home server, i’ve setup DNS similar to:
A my.domain <home_ip> CNAME *.my.domain my.domain
and a DDNS client updating the A
record, and 80
/443
forwarded.
acme
should be configured, giving you TLS for a proper ngrok alternative.
it’s as simple as
ssh -N -R '<traefik_backend_port>:localhost:<local_service_port>' <your_box>
for every tunnel you want to create. no need for any extra binaries like with ngrok
-N
means don’t run any remote commands, so you won’t get a shell on box. ssh will just keep the tunnel open without printing until you kill it-R
is key. connections to the given port on the remote host (<traefik_backend_port>
) are to be forwarded to the local side (localhost:<local_service_port>
so in my case, if i want to show a friend a web server i have running at http://localhost:5454
by the more friendly and secure address
https://t-1.my.domain
, it would be:
ssh -N -R '51401:localhost:5454' my-box
where 51401
matches the frontend in the
traefik.toml
much better :)