Where Traefik's built-in dashboard only shows what is running, Traefik Manager lets you change it: add routes, middlewares, and services from forms and wizards instead of editing YAML by hand. A first-run wizard connects to the Traefik API, creates a route for the manager itself, and sets the admin password. After that, the dashboard turns every route into a launchable app card with live health, and the Route Map draws each request from entry point through middlewares to backend. New routes use a slide-in form for HTTP, TCP, or UDP with several domains and backends, sticky sessions, and health checks. 30 middleware wizards handle authentication, rate limiting, headers, CORS, and redirects, and weighted, mirroring, or failover services can be built on their own. For day-to-day monitoring, the Certificates tab tracks expiry from acme.json, the Logs tab turns the access log into clickable analytics, the CrowdSec tab lists attacks and bans, and alerts reach Discord, Slack, ntfy, Telegram, and more. Changes to traefik.yml apply with a one-click restart, every edit is backed up locally and can be pushed to a git repository, and a lightweight agent brings remote Traefik servers into the same interface. Sign in with TOTP two-factor or OIDC single sign-on, in any of 14 languages. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

Providing an intuitive control plane for modern reverse proxy infrastructure, CaddyUI enables system administrators to manage proxy hosts, automated TLS certificates, and traffic routing without hand-editing configuration files. Operators can create and adjust reverse proxy destinations, URL path rewrites, custom headers, and redirection rules using structured forms that validate against the proxy engine before saving. The platform coordinates automatic ACME certificate requests and renewals, displaying live certificate expiration timelines, validation stages, and internal self-signed certificate authority options for local network services. Fleet management tools synchronize proxy rules across multiple distributed server instances, preventing configuration drift across staging and production clusters. Automated post-deployment health checks verify upstream endpoint availability, HTTP status codes, and latency thresholds, instantly rolling back to the previous configuration if an expectation fails. An integrated observability suite delivers real-time visitor traffic analytics, geographic maps, HTTP response code breakdowns, and single-click client IP blocking to counter malicious probing attempts. Administrators can schedule automated database backups, configure multi-user access with role permissions, and integrate CrowdSec threat intelligence to protect backends. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With over 43,000 GitHub stars and adoption by companies including Nasdaq, Samsung, and Expedia, Kong Gateway is the world's most deployed open-source API gateway, processing billions of API requests daily across hybrid-cloud and multi-cloud architectures. Built on the battle-tested NGINX engine with OpenResty's LuaJIT runtime, Kong delivers sub-millisecond proxy latency while supporting REST, gRPC, GraphQL, WebSocket, SOAP, and Kafka protocols. The plugin architecture includes authentication via JWT, Basic Auth, HMAC, key authentication, OAuth 2.0, and LDAP, alongside rate limiting with configurable windows per consumer, IP address, or API key. The AI Proxy plugin provides a universal LLM API that routes across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI, Databricks, Mistral, and Hugging Face through a single standardized interface, while MCP proxy capabilities convert REST APIs into MCP tools and provide traffic governance for AI agents. Kong supports declarative configuration via YAML for GitOps workflows, a RESTful Admin API for dynamic configuration, and decK CLI for version-controlled infrastructure-as-code management. Upstream health checking with active and passive probes enables automatic failover, and the ring balancer distributes traffic across upstream targets with consistent hashing, round-robin, or least-connections algorithms. The Kong Plugin Hub hosts over 100 community and official plugins covering logging, monitoring, transformation, security, and traffic control. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

With 17,000 GitHub stars, 460+ contributors, and deployments across telecommunications, automotive, and financial services running on over 10,000 CPU cores at the largest known installations, Apache APISIX delivers a fully dynamic API gateway achieving 140,000 QPS on eight cores with sub-millisecond latency through NGINX's event-driven architecture and LuaJIT-compiled plugin execution. The 100+ open-source plugins cover authentication (JWT, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, Keycloak, LDAP), observability (Prometheus, Datadog, SkyWalking, OpenTelemetry), traffic management (rate limiting, circuit breaking, canary releases, traffic splitting), and security (CORS, IP restriction, CSRF protection) — all hot-reloadable without process restarts via etcd-based real-time configuration synchronization. Multi-protocol support handles HTTP, gRPC, MQTT, TCP, UDP, and WebSocket traffic for both north-south API access and east-west service mesh communication. AI gateway capabilities proxy requests to 20+ LLM providers with semantic caching, token-aware rate limiting, provider failover routing, and content moderation. Custom plugins extend the gateway in Lua, Go, Java, Python, or WebAssembly. Radixtree route matching handles 100,000+ routes without performance degradation. Functions as a Kubernetes ingress controller with native service discovery for Consul, Nacos, and Eureka. Deploy via Docker or Helm charts with horizontal scaling through etcd cluster coordination. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Gately keeps your domain names current, forwards ports, terminates HTTPS, and blocks hostile traffic from one admin console, so a server or home network needs no pile of separate gateway tools. Dynamic DNS updates records at Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, DNSPod, Huawei Cloud, Route 53, OVHcloud, Gandi, Namecheap, DuckDNS, and other providers, finding the public address over IPv4 or IPv6 by URL, network interface, or command. Port forwarding relays TCP and UDP with port ranges, failover targets, connection limits, traffic statistics, and PROXY protocol, while SNI routing lets several services share port 443. Certificates are issued and renewed through ACME with DNS-01 wildcards or HTTP-01, then pushed to other hosts over SSH. Web services add per-domain reverse proxies, redirects, and static sites with HTTP/3, WebSocket, load balancing, health checks, rate limiting, caching, and sign-in through OIDC, GitHub, Google, or TOTP-protected shared users. A WAF running the OWASP Core Rule Set and fail2ban-style jails with trap ports and nftables bans guard the edge. Manage Docker containers and Compose projects with one-click upgrades and rollback, open SSH sessions with an SFTP file manager, run ping, traceroute, and speed tests, and receive alerts in Telegram, Discord, Slack, ntfy, or email. An audit log, config history with diff and rollback, encrypted backups, scoped API tokens, and Prometheus metrics round it out. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

A self-hosted front door for apps that live on home labs, office LANs, and private clusters, Wiredoor publishes them to the internet without opening a single inbound port on the private side. The Wiredoor CLI on each remote machine dials out to the server over an encrypted WireGuard tunnel. Web apps and APIs are routed by domain and path, WebSocket traffic included, while TCP and UDP services such as SSH or Redis get a public port of their own. Public domains receive Let's Encrypt certificates, internal names fall back to self-signed ones, and Cloudflare or GoDaddy credentials let the server create DNS records itself. Any web route can demand OAuth2 sign-in with an email allow list and a few open paths, and every protocol accepts IP allow lists. Gateway nodes stretch one tunnel across a Docker network, Kubernetes cluster, or private subnet, so a single link serves many backends. Services can be switched off or given an expiry such as 30 minutes, 2 hours, or 1 day. The dashboard shows which nodes are connected and whether their services are enabled, while the CLI creates, enables, and disables services from a terminal. Optional Prometheus and Grafana views chart traffic and tunnel peers, and CrowdSec can block abusive addresses. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Combining Docker container labels with a live web control plane, DockFlare automates Cloudflare Tunnel ingress routing, multi-zone DNS records, and Zero Trust Access policies across self-hosted infrastructure. DevOps engineers and homelab operators can attach simple container labels to expose HTTP, HTTPS, TCP, SSH, and RDP services publicly in seconds without clicking through external cloud dashboards. For non-containerized workloads such as bare-metal hypervisors or network appliances, administrators can define manual ingress rules, path-based routes, custom TLS SNI headers, and origin certificate bypass flags directly in the web interface. Security teams use reusable Access Groups and wildcard zone policies to enforce Google, GitHub, Azure AD, or custom OIDC authentication across every subdomain from a single policy definition. Distributed deployments connect lightweight remote agents back to the primary controller using Zero Trust service tokens so multi-host clusters share one unified routing view. When containers stop or restart, configurable grace-period timers prevent accidental route churn before cleaning up stale DNS entries, while encrypted state backups protect your entire ingress configuration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.

zrok puts services that live behind NAT and firewalls onto the public internet with a shareable URL, without opening a single inbound port. The machine being shared dials out to an OpenZiti overlay network, so a web app on your desk, a Raspberry Pi at home, or a staging box inside a corporate network becomes reachable through your instance while its firewall stays closed. One command shares an HTTP service publicly; add a name from one of your namespaces and the URL stays stable even when you move the backend to a different machine, and an ephemeral name can be promoted to a reserved one when a quick demo turns into a keeper. Private shares skip the public internet entirely and reach only the users you grant, including raw TCP and UDP services, while web and drive backend modes publish static sites or whole folders, with OAuth, password auth, and an interstitial warning page available on public shares. The long-running agent keeps every share and access under one process, restarts the named ones after a reboot, and offers a localhost console for point-and-click sharing; the account-wide web console maps your environments, shares, and accesses as a navigable graph or a sortable table with live activity. Operators get invite-based accounts, InfluxDB-backed usage metrics, and configurable limits that warn or cut off accounts that exceed their quotas. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.

Rustunnel turns a service running on your laptop or private network into a public HTTPS, TCP, or UDP endpoint without opening inbound ports on the machine where it lives. Point the client at a local port and share the public address for webhook testing, a quick demo, an AI agent tool, SSH access, a game server, or an IoT device that cannot accept inbound connections. Give tunnels custom subdomains on your own wildcard domain, terminate HTTPS with automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, and keep client traffic encrypted from edge to local service. Put several backends behind one subdomain or TCP port and let TCP or HTTP health probes remove sick members before visitors hit them. When two peers can reach each other directly, start a P2P tunnel with NAT hole punching and QUIC, with relay fallback when the direct path fails. Watch sessions, tunnel health, traffic, and request logs from the live dashboard, inspect headers and bodies in the local request inspector, and replay a captured call while debugging a webhook. Manage tunnels, tokens, groups, captured requests, and history through the REST API, scrape Prometheus metrics, review audit logs, or let an MCP-compatible coding assistant create and close tunnels in plain language. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Created to eliminate the configuration fragmentation plaguing multi-device Homelab setups and small-team infrastructures, NetsGo merges what typically requires three separate tools — a tunnel daemon, a management panel, and a monitoring stack — into a single Go binary that starts with one command and listens on one port. The server exposes HTTP, TCP, and UDP tunnels, a built-in Web console for node management, a REST API for automation, and real-time traffic statistics with per-client bandwidth limiting, all sharing default port 9527 so firewalls and reverse proxies need only a single rule. Version 0.1.11 introduced Client-to-Client P2P tunnels via WebRTC DataChannel with three selectable transport strategies — Server relay, Prefer P2P with automatic fallback, and P2P only — reducing latency for direct connections while maintaining the centralized control plane. The management console displays every connected client's online status, authentication tokens, tunnel configuration, active transport mode, P2P candidate gathering progress, and cumulative byte-level traffic counters updated every second. Unlike frp or rathole which delegate management to external plugins or configuration files, NetsGo provides built-in client key generation, tunnel target migration between nodes, SOCKS5 proxying, IP-whitelist console access, and one-command server upgrades. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.

Tag a Docker container with two labels, and AutoXpose turns it into a published service with a DNS record, a reverse proxy route, and HTTPS, without you opening a single provider dashboard. From the web dashboard you connect one of six DNS providers, Cloudflare, Netlify, DigitalOcean, Porkbun, Aliyun, or Tencent DNSPod, and point it at the Nginx Proxy Manager or Caddy instance you already run. It watches your containers continuously after that: a new label creates the record, propagation is verified before the service shows as live, and removing the container removes its public entries too. Auto-expose mode publishes containers the moment they appear, while manual mode stages them in the dashboard for approval first. Color-coded service tags sort what you run into web, database, and media groups at a glance, and dashboard warnings flag misconfigurations before they become broken links. Nginx Proxy Manager access lists attach by label, so an admin panel stays reachable only from the networks you trust. When containers vanish, orphaned cleanup hunts down the stale DNS records and proxy hosts they left behind. Settings and state live inside the same single container, so the publishing pipeline for a homelab or a small fleet stays one compose service you can back up as a unit. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Certificate lifetimes are collapsing toward 47 days, which turns TLS from a yearly chore into a weekly one, and CertMate is the control plane that makes that schedule boring. It issues and renews certificates from Let's Encrypt, ZeroSSL, Google Trust Services, Actalis, DigiCert, SSL.com, Sectigo, or your own private CA, validating by DNS-01 through 29 DNS providers, HTTP-01, or a CSR whose private key never leaves the device. Renewals run automatically, earlier when a certificate's life is short or the CA moves the date through ARI, and deploy hooks push each renewed certificate where it is actually served, then probe the live endpoint to prove the new certificate answers. Discovery watches hosts and certificate transparency logs for certificates you did not issue, folding them into one inventory of what is served where and when it expires. Certificates rest on local disk or in Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault, Infisical, or S3 storage, with encrypted backups copied off-site. Its built-in CA issues client certificates for mTLS with OCSP and CRL, and can serve ACME itself, so certbot, lego, acme.sh, and cert-manager get internal certificates under EAB rules you define. Every action lands in a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit trail you can export and verify independently. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

Automate your entire SSL and TLS lifecycle with Certimate, an infrastructure-grade certificate management platform that handles domain verification, ACME issuance, scheduled renewals, and multi-cloud deployment from one unified control plane. A drag-and-drop workflow designer lets administrators construct visual pipelines linking domain validation, certificate issuance from Let's Encrypt or ZeroSSL, and automated distribution to edge destinations. Built-in automation interfaces connect with over seventy DNS providers to handle automated DNS-01 challenge record creation and cleanup without manual API scripting. Engineers can deploy renewed certificates directly to Nginx, Apache, Traefik, and Caddy instances via automated SSH commands or native webhooks. Cloud delivery workflows push updated certificates to AWS CloudFront, Cloudflare, Alibaba Cloud, Tencent Cloud, and Kubernetes Ingress secrets without service interruption. The web management console tracks expiration dates across multiple domains, highlights failing renewal attempts, and dispatches instant alerts through email, Telegram, DingTalk, and enterprise webhooks before outages occur. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.

With over 24,000 GitHub stars and a rapidly growing community of self-hosters, authentik delivers enterprise-grade identity management that replaces commercial solutions like Okta and Auth0 with a fully self-hosted platform requiring no per-user licensing fees. The platform serves as a unified identity provider supporting SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect, LDAP for legacy application compatibility, SCIM 2.0 for automated user provisioning, and RADIUS for network device authentication. The visual flow designer enables administrators to create custom authentication workflows combining password verification, multi-factor authentication with TOTP, WebAuthn, and SMS codes, email verification, captcha challenges, and conditional logic based on user attributes or device context. The forward-auth and reverse proxy integration works seamlessly with Traefik, Nginx, Caddy, and Envoy to protect applications that lack built-in authentication. User enrollment flows support self-registration with configurable approval workflows, invitation links, and automatic group assignment. The LDAP outpost exposes user and group data to legacy applications requiring LDAP bind authentication, while the SCIM provider automates user lifecycle management with downstream applications. Multi-tenancy support through brands allows a single authentik instance to serve multiple organizations with independent domains, branding, and authentication policies. The admin interface provides comprehensive user management, group hierarchy, application catalog, event logging with GeoIP enrichment, and system health monitoring. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Licensed under a source-available license with an open-source community edition.

Authelia is the leading open-source SSO and multi-factor authentication server for self-hosted infrastructure. The Go backend compiles to a single binary or Docker container image, serving a TypeScript React web portal that handles first-factor username and password login, second-factor authentication via TOTP, WebAuthn FIDO2 security keys, passwordless passkeys, and Duo mobile push notifications, and an OpenID Connect 1.0 and OAuth 2.0 identity provider with device code flow, JWE encrypted ID tokens, custom claims policies, and network-scoped authorization criteria. The forward authentication model integrates with Nginx auth_request, Traefik ForwardAuth, HAProxy, Caddy, Envoy, SWAG, and Skipper reverse proxies, injecting Remote-User, Remote-Groups, and Remote-Email headers into authorized requests. Granular access control rules match subject, groups, request URI, HTTP method, and network to enforce one-factor and two-factor policies per route. The user backend supports LDAP with attribute mapping, connection pooling, and bind mode, or YAML file-based authentication with Argon2id hashed passwords. Session state stores in Redis for high availability across clustered deployments, while persistent data lives in SQLite, MySQL and MariaDB, or PostgreSQL. Brute force protection locks accounts after configurable failed attempts, and email-based identity verification handles password resets and device registration. Dark, light, and OLED themes with i18n localization customize the portal appearance. On RepoCloud, deploy Authelia on a dedicated VPS with Docker, root SSH access, and complete control over your authentication infrastructure, all under the Apache-2.0 license.

To protect self-hosted web services behind a unified single sign-on portal without deploying complex enterprise identity suites, Tinyauth acts as an OpenID Certified authentication server and reverse proxy middleware. Homelab operators and infrastructure teams place it in front of internal dashboards, media servers, and administrative tools routed through Traefik, Caddy, Nginx, Nginx Proxy Manager, or LinuxServer SWAG. Users can sign in with local bcrypt-hashed credentials, scan QR codes to enroll time-based one-time password authenticators for two-factor verification, or authenticate through external OAuth providers like GitHub, Google, and Pocket ID. Organizations running centralized directories can bind Tinyauth directly to an LDAP server such as LLDAP or OpenLDAP and automatically synchronize group memberships for role-based authorization. Fine-grained access control rules configured via dynamic Docker container labels or environment variables let administrators whitelist or block specific usernames, OAuth email regex patterns, OIDC groups, client IP CIDR ranges, and URL path prefixes per subdomain. For applications that support native federated login, the built-in OpenID Connect 1.0 discovery endpoint, authorization code flow, and userinfo API allow seamless single sign-on with optional consent skipping for trusted clients. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Behind one admin panel, DefGuard runs a WireGuard VPN, an identity provider, and multi-factor authentication, so every person and device proves who they are before reaching your private network. Administrators define VPN locations, assign which users and groups may enter each one, and enforce firewall rules that allow or deny traffic per location, with changes applied to gateways in real time. People enroll remotely through a guided self-service flow, register their own laptops and phones, and connect with desktop and mobile clients that show live connection statistics. Sign-in goes well beyond passwords, because the built-in OpenID Connect provider gives internal tools single sign-on, while TOTP codes, WebAuthn and FIDO2 keys, email tokens, and mobile biometrics gate each connection. Directory teams sync accounts from LDAP and Active Directory, or federate sign-in through Google, Microsoft, and custom OpenID providers, instead of maintaining a separate user list. Every authentication, enrollment, and policy change lands in a searchable activity log, and webhooks plus a REST API let surrounding systems react to access events automatically. Gateways keep enforcing access from a local cache when the control plane is unreachable, and several gateways can front the same location for failover. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.