Proxy

In a previous post: Headscale, how to self-host tailscale, I explained how to configure headscale in server; now it is outdated. At that time the only way to install it was using the .deb or binary file, but now we can use a simpler method. This time we will focus on: Docker, headscale and SWAG. SWAG (Secure Web Application Gateway) sets up an Nginx reverse proxy with built-in cerbot for SSL certificates using Let's Encrypt. I already wrote a litter bit about it here. ...

From Wikipedia; A proxy server that appears to any client to be an ordinary web server, but in reality merely acts as an intermediary that forwards the client's requests to one or more ordinary web servers. In other words, it is like a man in the middle that redirects traffic. The most common case is for visiting severs for a name or fully qualified domain name (FQDN), like www.enchilada.lan, instead of the ip of the server (e.g. 192.168.1.25). ...