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.

  • Auli@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    Your choice I don’t encrpt local comms because it is all in machine. Go to proxy and proxy goes to another container but never leaves the machine but don’t see a reason to encrypt. Even HA in a seperate machine what are they going to see.