Mind that I am very noob into self-hosting, reverse proxies and the like
When I saw that Caddy automatically handled the HTTPS thingies I was like “this is my moment then to go into self-hosting”. Caddy seemed so simple.
Turns out… I am suddenly discovering that the connection between the caddy machine and the Home Assistant machine (both in the local network) is non-encrypted. So if another appliance in my local network went rogue… bum, all my info gets leaked… right?
This might sound weird because it might actually be super-duper complicated but… how come in 2025 we still don’t auto-encrypt local comms?
Please be kind. Lot’s of love. Hopefully I’ll dig my way to self-hosting wisdom.
I’m not familiar with Caddy at all - I use Traefik for a reverse proxy, and my knowledge there isn’t huge either. But I think that your reverse proxy terminates TLS (HTTPS) from the world and then forwards traffic to the appropriate service on your local network using HTTP by default - but if your local service can handle TLS, I think you can configure your reverse proxy to forward the traffic to it using TLS.