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Do you have a link to a tutorial or an example setup for that? I’ve wanted that exact setup but couldn’t find how to do it.
Not really haha, you could say I followed a tutorial for setting up a wireguard server on a VPS, and then once I had the wireguard container running and my homelab boxes as clients, I started up an haproxy container on the VPS with
network_mode: "service:wireguard"so that the wireguard container can also see my homelab boxes through the tunnel, then also added ports 80 and 443 to the wireguard container on the VPS (in addition to the 51820 for incoming wireguard connections) - that has to be on the wireguard container because using network_mode means the haproxy container piggy backs on the wireguard container’s network, then I added a simple haproxy config that listens on 80/443 on the VPSes public IP and proxies it to the appropriate box on the other side of the tunnel.For the wireguard config, the key seems to be using
mode tcpin any backend or frontend that’s connected to port 443, so that it just proxies raw data without doing termination. With SNI, you can even proxy to different wireguard clients based on domain, because SNI exposes the domain without needing to do termination. So I do that because I have my NAS as well as a NUC connected to the wireguard network hosting different things.This is a stripped down version of my haproxy config:
global maxconn 20000 log 127.0.0.1 local0 daemon defaults mode http timeout connect 10s timeout client 1m timeout server 1m maxconn 8000 option tcpka option tcp-smart-connect default-server init-addr last,libc,none resolvers docker parse-resolv-conf frontend ingress_http bind :::80 bind :80 acl h_secondbox_http hdr(host) -i second.box.example.com use_backend secondbox_http if h_secondbox_http default_backend vault_http frontend ingress_https mode tcp bind :::443 bind :443 tcp-request inspect-delay 5s tcp-request content accept if { req_ssl_hello_type 1 } acl h_secondbox_https req_ssl_sni -i second.box.example.com use_backend secondbox_https if h_secondbox_https default_backend vault_https backend vault_http server vault_server_http 10.13.13.2:80 send-proxy-v2 backend vault_https mode tcp server vault_server_https 10.13.13.2:443 send-proxy-v2 backend secondbox_http server secondbox_server_http 10.13.13.3:80 send-proxy-v2 backend secondbox_https mode tcp server secondbox_server_https 10.13.13.3:443 send-proxy-v2The way this is set up, I do have to manually enter every subdomain I want to go to my second box, but the default is to route to my main vault, which is where I host most stuff anyways.
My docker compose on the VPS is pretty simple:
services: wireguard: image: linuxserver/wireguard:latest container_name: wireguard restart: unless-stopped cap_add: - NET_ADMIN - SYS_MODULE environment: - PUID=0 - PGID=0 - TZ=America/New_York - SERVERURL=wg.example.com #optional - SERVERPORT=51820 #optional - PEERS=vault,secondbox #optional - PEERDNS=auto #optional - INTERNAL_SUBNET=10.13.13.0 #optional - ALLOWEDIPS=10.13.13.1/24 #optional - PERSISTENTKEEPALIVE_PEERS=all #optional - LOG_CONFS=true #optional volumes: - ./volumes/wg-config:/config ports: - 51820:51820/udp - 80:80/tcp - 443:443/tcp - 8090:8090/tcp sysctls: - net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark=1 haproxy: image: haproxy:lts container_name: haproxy restart: unless-stopped network_mode: "service:wireguard" depends_on: - wireguard volumes: - ./volumes/haproxy-config:/usr/local/etc/haproxyThen on the local side I use the same
network_mode: "service:wireguard"trick to link my traefik container to the wireguard container, that way traffic hitting ports 80/443 of the wireguard container which is on the tunnel is also seen by traefik:services: boringtun: image: boringtun build: ./boringtun-docker container_name: boringtun restart: always privileged: true cap_add: - NET_ADMIN devices: - "/dev/net/tun:/dev/net/tun" volumes: - "./volumes/wg-config/wg0.conf:/etc/wireguard/wg0.conf" logging: driver: "json-file" options: max-size: "400k" max-file: "20" environment: - INTERFACE_NAME=wg0 - WG_SUDO=1 - WG_QUICK_USERSPACE_IMPLEMENTATION=/app/boringtun entrypoint: /bin/bash command: -c "wg-quick up wg0 && sleep infinity" extra_hosts: # Allows containers to access the host machine as host.docker.internal, useful for remote access to the host through a container - "host.docker.internal:host-gateway" networks: - ingress traefik: image: traefik:v2.11 container_name: traefik restart: always network_mode: "service:boringtun" depends_on: - boringtun command: # - "--log.level=DEBUG" - "--providers.docker" - "--entrypoints.web.address=:80" - "--entryPoints.web.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.13.13.1" - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443" - "--entryPoints.websecure.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.13.13.1" - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.to=websecure" - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.scheme=https" - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.priority=100" # Timeouts - "--entryPoints.websecure.transport.respondingTimeouts.readTimeout=0" - "--entryPoints.websecure.transport.respondingTimeouts.writeTimeout=0" - "--entryPoints.websecure.transport.respondingTimeouts.idleTimeout=0" - "--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false" - "--providers.docker.network=ingress" - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.tlschallenge=true" - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.email=youremail@example.com" - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json" - "--serversTransport.forwardingTimeouts.dialTimeout=3m" # - "--api.insecure=true" # - "--certificatesresolvers.mytlschallenge.acme.caserver=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory" environment: - TZ=America/New_York volumes: - ./volumes/le-data/acme.json:/letsencrypt/acme.json - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sockI only use boringtun on this side because I think synology doesn’t or didn’t have the kernel module for wireguard and using the userspace mode made it work for me, otherwise you could probably just use the regular wireguard container. Also note that my docker network for communicating between traefik and stuff I’m exposing is
ingress, which is specified both on the boringtun container as well as passed to traefik asproviders.docker.network, I think that’s needed so that traefik can figure out the container IP of the containers you’re exposing. I also haven’t migrated to traefik v3 because I’m lazy.Another note, there’s an annoying condition where if you reboot, it may fail to attach the traefik container to wireguard because it linked via network mode to the old container. Just doing compose down and up fixes it by recreating all the containers. But other than that which I haven’t encountered in a while it works really well. I’m not sure if that bug was fixed because I rarely reboot.
Not exactly a tutorial, but I use SNI routing + TLS passthrough with Caddy-L4 (and previously Traefik), and wrote/collect some stuff about it over the years:
https://theorangeone.net/posts/wireguard-haproxy-gateway/. From TheOrangeOne, involves TCP routing with HAProxy and plain WireGuard. Most likely what you want.
https://muoi.me/~stratself/articles/tailscale-notes/#the-public-website. Me using Traefik + Tailscale to route TCP to the backend
https://jdedev.org/projects/tophomelabwork/docs/solutions/traefik/traefik/. Another Traefik example
https://muoi.me/~stratself/articles/the-cost-of-tls-passthrough/#scenario-1-passthrough-encryption. Same but for Caddy-L4 and involves SNI routing. If you want plain TCP routing just do
{ layer4 { tcp/:443 { tcp/127.0.0.1:538 } } }