I love my homelab, and the more I tune things the more satisfaction I have. I tolerated the “Your connection is not private” for my self-signed SSL certs on my services for way too long.
I just setup NGINX Proxy Manager as a LXC on my Proxmox Server and pointed a subdomain I own to the server. Now I have custom domains for each service along with valid SSL Certificates. It’s all local without exposing anything to the outside world. It’s very satisfying. I tried explaining what I was doing to my GF but she could care less ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Followed this video from Wolfgang’s Channel YouTube (great channel btw), the first minute does a better job explaining the setup. I always thought I would have to setup a local CA which is more work than I was interested in, but this approach was much simpler (and free!).
Wolfgang’s Channel is pretty good, i also recommend it.
And congrats OP, i know lots of big enterprises who still use their own vCenters with self signed certs (and other internal apps as well) and it’s a real pain in the ass to type hacks just to bypass HSTS everytime it’s necessary to access them. Talking about billion dollars companies, yeah.