# Public ingress — VPS traefik + cert mirror

How home services reach the open internet without exposing the home network. Two-stage pattern: traefik on the IONOS VPS terminates TLS at the public edge, then reverse-proxies over the netbird mesh to home Caddy / direct backends.

## The shape

```
Public client
    │  *.hubris.network → 82.165.190.79 (IONOS wildcard)
    ▼
[VPS traefik]   priority 1: HostSNI(*) → netbird-proxy:8443  ← netbird control plane
                priority 10: per-host HTTP routers           ← home services
    │  HTTP over netbird mesh
    ▼
[Home backend on 192.168.8.x]
```

LAN clients resolve via the [Technitium DNS on dns (107)](dns.md) → `192.168.8.175` → home [Caddy (121)](../containers/121-caddy.md), unchanged. The two paths are independent.

## Why this shape

- VPS traefik already has a HostSNI(*) TCP passthrough at priority 1 so netbird's own ingress (`netbird.hubris.network`, future `*.proxy.hubris.network`) is unaffected.
- Per-hostname HTTP file-provider routers at priority 10 win over the passthrough for the listed hosts and let traefik terminate TLS itself for those.
- Traefik's own ACME (`letsencrypt` resolver) fails on this box: HostSNI(*) grabs TLS-ALPN-01 challenges before traefik's `allowACMEByPass=true` can respond. Solution: home Caddy obtains certs via IONOS DNS-01 (no conflict) and the VPS *mirrors* the result over.

## Components

### On the VPS (`82.165.190.79`)

- `/opt/traefik-dynamic.yaml` — file-watched dynamic config. One `http.routers.<name>-public` + one `http.services.<name>-public` per exposed service, plus one entry in the top-level `tls.certificates` list per hostname.
- Let's-Encrypt-effective directory: `/letsencrypt/` inside the traefik container, backed by the host-side docker volume `opt_netbird_traefik_letsencrypt`.
- Backups before edits: `cp /opt/traefik-dynamic.yaml /opt/traefik-dynamic.yaml.bak.$(date +%s)` — several bak files live alongside.

### On the PVE host (`192.168.8.77`)

- `/usr/local/bin/hubris-public-cert-sync.sh` — runs daily via `hubris-public-cert-sync.timer`. Maps source hostname → VPS cert filenames in a bash assoc array. For each mapping: `pct pull` cert+key from [Caddy (121)](../containers/121-caddy.md)'s store, diff against the VPS copy, scp only on change.
- Filenames are stable per host so the dynamic.yaml never needs editing on renewal — traefik file-watches and hot-reloads the cert.

## Services currently exposed

| Hostname                       | Path scope                       | Backend                          | Middlewares                                  | Cert files on VPS                          |
| ------------------------------ | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| `artifacto.hubris.network`     | `/p/*`, `/static/*`, `/healthz`  | `192.168.8.205:3100`             | `artifacto-strip-sso` + `artifacto-ratelimit` (50 rps / 100 burst) | `fullchain.crt` / `privkey.key`           |
| `blog.hubris.network`          | whole host                       | `192.168.8.205:8080`             | `blog-ratelimit` (100 rps / 200 burst)       | `blog.fullchain.crt` / `blog.privkey.key` |
| `trmnl.hubris.network`         | whole host                       | `192.168.8.211:9851` ([trmnl 128](../containers/128-trmnl.md)) | `trmnl-ratelimit` (20 rps / 40 burst) | `trmnl.fullchain.crt` / `trmnl.privkey.key` |
| `house.hubris.network`         | whole host                       | `192.168.8.212:3000` ([house 129](../containers/129-house.md))     | `house-ratelimit` (30 rps / 60 burst) | `house.fullchain.crt` / `house.privkey.key` |

`artifacto-strip-sso` blanks inbound `X-Authentik-*` and `X-Artifacto-Gateway` so external clients can't spoof the SSO auto-login header contract. Path split is enforced at the VPS router rule, not by home Caddy. See [Artifacto on apps (105)](../containers/105-apps.md).

### `auth.hubris.network` — different pattern (local container, not cert-mirror)

Since 2026-05-31 [Authentik runs on the VPS itself](../../sources/investigations/archive/2026-05-31-authentik-vps-migration.md), so `auth.hubris.network` is served by a **local Docker container**, not proxied to a home backend. It therefore does **not** use the file-provider + cert-mirror pattern above:

- Routed via traefik **Docker provider labels** on the `authentik-server` service (`/opt/docker-compose.yml`), not `traefik-dynamic.yaml`.
- TLS via traefik's own `letsencrypt` resolver (works here because it's a normal HTTP router, not the HostSNI passthrough).
- Traefik reaches it over the `auth` Docker network (`172.30.1.0/24`); Postgres/Redis on that net are isolated from the netbird containers.
- Admin UI is IP-gated: an `admin-allowlist` ipAllowList middleware on `PathPrefix(/if/admin/)` (currently `5.61.168.0/24`). Login/flow endpoints stay public.

No cert-mirror entry and no `hubris-public-cert-sync.sh` mapping is needed for `auth`.

## Recipe — exposing another service

1. Ensure home Caddy on [LXC 121](../containers/121-caddy.md) already serves the hostname (cert exists at `/var/lib/caddy/.local/share/caddy/certificates/acme-v02.api.letsencrypt.org-directory/<host>/`).
2. Add an entry to `HOSTS` in `/usr/local/bin/hubris-public-cert-sync.sh` mapping the hostname → VPS filenames. Run once: `systemctl start hubris-public-cert-sync.service`. Confirm the cert landed.
3. Edit `/opt/traefik-dynamic.yaml` on the VPS:
   - Add to `tls.certificates`: paths `/letsencrypt/<crt>` and `/letsencrypt/<key>`.
   - Add `http.routers.<host>-public`: `rule: 'Host(\`<host>\`)'` (or with path matchers if scope-gating), `entryPoints: [websecure]`, `priority: 10`, `tls: {}`, `service: <host>-public`, `middlewares: [...]`.
   - Add a ratelimit middleware under `http.middlewares` if wanted.
   - Add `http.services.<host>-public.loadBalancer.servers[0].url: 'http://<lan-ip>:<port>'`.
4. Verify:
   ```
   ssh root@100.122.165.149 'curl -skI --resolve <host>:443:127.0.0.1 https://<host>/'   # 2xx/3xx
   curl -skI --resolve <host>:443:<vps-public-ip> https://<host>/                          # same
   ```
5. **No DNS edit needed** — the IONOS wildcard already points at the VPS.

## What does NOT follow this pattern

- `netbird.hubris.network` (and any future `*.proxy.hubris.network`) uses the netbird-proxy / HostSNI passthrough path. Netbird handles its own cert via ACME cleanly because it *is* the passthrough target.

## Related
- [DNS split-horizon](dns.md)
- [Caddy (121)](../containers/121-caddy.md) — cert source, internal counterpart
- [Mesh migration](mesh.md) — netbird is the transport between VPS and home
- [VPS hardening](vps-hardening.md) — fail2ban / nftables that the access logs feed
- [Artifacto on apps (105)](../containers/105-apps.md) — first publicly-exposed service

## Changelog

### 2026-06-24 — `trmnl.hubris.network` exposed
TRMNL plugins middleware on [trmnl (128)](../containers/128-trmnl.md). File-provider router `trmnl-public` → `192.168.8.211:9851`, `trmnl-ratelimit` (20 rps / 40 burst), cert mirrored as `trmnl.fullchain.crt`/`trmnl.privkey.key`. Verified live from the internet (200 with token / 401 without). It was provisioned during a mesh outage — the `home-lab-network` (192.168.8.0/24) route had no active routing peer because the **mac-mini routing peer's netbird was down** (all home-backed public services 504'd). Bringing netbird up on mac-mini restored the route; no traefik change was needed.

### 2026-05-31 — `auth.hubris.network` now served locally on the VPS
Authentik migrated onto the VPS ([investigation](../../sources/investigations/archive/2026-05-31-authentik-vps-migration.md)). Unlike the home-backed services above, `auth` is a local container routed via traefik Docker-provider labels with traefik-managed Let's Encrypt — no cert-mirror, no `traefik-dynamic.yaml` router. Admin UI gated by an ipAllowList middleware. Traefik gained a second Docker network (`auth`, `172.30.1.0/24`) to reach it while keeping its DB/Redis isolated from the netbird stack.

### 2026-04-28 — wiki entry created
Initial documentation.

### 2026-04-23 — `blog.hubris.network` exposed
WriteFreely on [apps (105)](../containers/105-apps.md). Whole host is public.

### 2026-04-22 — pattern established with Artifacto
First service through the file-provider router. IONOS wildcard moved to the VPS this day. Cert mirror script + timer deployed on the PVE host.
