Traefik

For years I wanted a homelab at home. A place of my own to host development tools, monitor my machines, run home automation, and experiment without risking breaking anything important. The idea is simple. Getting it running, a bit less so. Back then, Kubernetes didn’t exist yet. Options for running multiple services on a single machine came down to bash scripting, hand-written Nginx configs, and a lot of coffee. Tutorials on “homelab for humans” were nowhere to be found. ...

The setup seemed perfect. Point *.traefik.me at 127.0.0.1, download a wildcard certificate from the same domain, drop it into Traefik, and every local service gets a clean HTTPS URL with no IP in the address bar. No Let’s Encrypt rate limits, no mkcert to explain to teammates, no self-signed warnings to click through. Just https://myapp.traefik.me and a green padlock. Then in March 2025, Let’s Encrypt revoked the certificate. The wildcard cert for traefik.me is gone and it’s not coming back. ...