What problem does this solve?

If you’re running a homelab or a small infrastructure with multiple self-hosted services, you’ve probably hit this wall: every service has its own user database. Nextcloud has one, Gitea has another, Portainer has its own, and so on. Add a new team member? You’re creating accounts in five different places. Someone leaves? Good luck remembering where they had access.

LDAP solves this by giving you a single directory where all your users and groups live. Each service connects to this directory instead of maintaining its own user list. You create a user once, assign them to groups, and every connected service knows who they are and what they can access.

Quick and Free Way to Share Your Local Docker Service with Clients

Ever been in that situation where you’ve built something cool in Docker and want to quickly show it to your client? Yeah, me too. Recently, I was wrapping up a database admin panel project and needed a way to let my client review it before the final deployment.

My go-to solution used to be Ngrok. It works, but the free tier gives you random URLs that look like 8f4d-192-158-1-38.ngrok.io. Not very professional when sending to clients, right? Plus, these URLs change every time you restart the tunnel.