It was relatively easy once I figured out that netbird doesn’t support a wildcard certificate. They just released and update that fixed that and they now support subdomains. I also do still have headscale as a backup if I need it.

Oh yeah I know. I’m mostly only able to use deep servers and that’s why I switched because j wanted to be able to use my own deep server and not have to rely on tailscales.

I actually had the opposite and the tailscale app would drain my battery when using one of my exit nodes. I will say the netbird app needs some love. My biggest issue is that it doesn’t stay connected or is able to reconnect when I change WiFi networks or go from WiFi to cellular.

I could never get the self hosted stun server to connect so I was always using tailscales derp servers. Netbird is also fully opensource so that was the main reason I wanted to switch. I was also able to easily setup SSO with authentic and netbird which gives me 2FA as well.

I just setup authentik in podman quadlet and got a lot of my services setup with it. Their documentation is actually very good and thorough. It covers a ton of services with easy to follow instructions.

Ok looks like I figured it out, turns out Netbird doesn’t like wildcard certificates, I spun up a quick NPM reverse proxy in docker and everything is now working fine using a certificate for netbird.mydomain.com instead of a wildcard cert like *.mydomain.com

I’m also looking for something. I just tried netdata but looks like there is a 5 node limit now? I’m green on netdata but seems like a lot of people are mad about it lol. I’ll give beszel a try but doesn’t look like it does logs? Any thoughts on Foss options for system logs and alerting as well?

From what i know about netbird(which is not a lot). Buy its a beast to setup. I could never even get their standard docker compose file to work.

That being said I’m rocking headscale and love it, super easy to setup and tons of documentation. I’ll need to give netbird a other try when I get time though.

Proxmox does say docker isn’t officially supported in LXC. That being said I’m running 10 docker containers with no issues on an LXC. I have recently had some weird database not connecting issues and other strange new docker containers not working in an LXC for some reason. If you can I would try the same setup but in a VM and see what happens.

I recently was trying to get authentik setup via docker and it just wouldn’t work. I gave up and spun up a VM, ran the same docker compose file and it worked right away.

Hopefully this helps?

Sorry I’d this has been answered but are you running this in docker on a VM or LXC?

As long as you have cameras that have a web interface which I think all the POE reolink cameras have there is an option to record everything to an FTP server. Once you have them on your network just go to the IP of the camera and login with the username and password you set.

If you need more in depth help let me know and I can send you some screenshots of my nas ftp settings and reolink camera ftp settings

I love my 3 POE reolink cameras, they are all local and just joined Home assistant officially. The integration is flawless and love that I don’t have to use frigate either. I have all my cameras recording directly to my NAS via FTP.

+1 i have my own searxng instance on my lan that I access via my headscale VPN setup. Love it.

Can somebody suggest another privacy oriented domain hosting provider?

I’ve just setup headscale in docker and it worked right away. It’s even faster than when I was using tailscale. It was very easy to setup and I’ve been using it for about a month with no issues. Doesn’t really help but I haven’t used gluetun myself.

I’m using sunshine on my main Linux gaming rig with my own head scale instance running and use moonlight on my client PC and its very nice and smooth. I use it to access my main LAN gaming rig from another remote network. Not sure if that’s your use case but I’ve also used sunshine and moonlight within my lan so I can remotely play on my bedroom TV.

I’ve also tried to run the docker compose file with not changes from the Zitadel documentation, https://zitadel.com/docs/self-hosting/deploy/compose

This is what shows:

[+] Running 3/3
 ✔ Network root_zitadel      Created                                                                                                         0.0s 
 ✘ Container root-db-1       Error                                                                                                          60.8s 
 ✔ Container root-zitadel-1  Created                                                                                                         0.0s 
dependency failed to start: container root-db-1 is unhealthy

docker ps -a then shows the root-zitadel-1 container created but not started, I can’t get any logs to show on the root-db-1 container even though it shows as running…

I start the root-zitadel-1 container and restart the root-db-1 container and this is what I get in the logs:

time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:45Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:46Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:46Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:47Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:47Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:48Z" level=info msg="initialization started" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:70"
time="2025-07-24T13:41:48Z" level=fatal msg="unable to initialize the database" caller="/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:63" error="failed to connect to `user=postgres database=postgres`: 172.18.0.2:5432 (db): dial error: dial tcp 172.18.0.2:5432: connect: connection refused"

Here is the compose file I’m using:

services:
  postgresql:
    image: postgres:16-alpine
    container_name: postgresql
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - authentik
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -d authentik -U postgres"]
      start_period: 20s
      interval: 30s
      retries: 5
      timeout: 5s
    volumes:
      - ./database:/var/lib/postgresql/data
    ports:
      - 5432:5432
    environment:
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: JKSHDFUHWEUEIORUhdsjhfglsdhuifghert
      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
      POSTGRES_DB: authentik
  redis:
    image: redis:alpine
    container_name: redis
    command: --save 60 1 --loglevel warning
    restart: unless-stopped
    healthcheck:
      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "redis-cli ping | grep PONG"]
      start_period: 20s
      interval: 30s
      retries: 5
      timeout: 3s
    volumes:
      - ./redis:/data
    networks:
      - authentik
  server:
    image: ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2025.6.4
    container_name: authentik-server
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: server
    environment:
      AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY: 0rIgYE/fgWwkkhKXob6jQQ8M8Wp6tJzDc658GGb0C5r0QZOt
      AUTHENTIK_REDIS__HOST: redis
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST: postgresql
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER: postgres
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME: authentik
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__PASSWORD: JKSHDFUHWEUEIORUhdsjhfglsdhuifghert
    volumes:
      - ./media:/media
      - ./custom-templates:/templates
    ports:
      - 9000:9000
      - 9443:9443
    networks:
      - authentik
    depends_on:
      postgresql:
        condition: service_healthy
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
  worker:
    image: ghcr.io/goauthentik/server:2025.6.4
    container_name: authentik-worker
    restart: unless-stopped
    command: worker
    networks:
      - authentik
    environment:
      AUTHENTIK_SECRET_KEY: 0rIgYE/fgWwkkhKXob6jQQ8M8Wp6tJzDc658GGb0C5r0QZOt
      AUTHENTIK_REDIS__HOST: redis
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__HOST: postgresql
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__USER: postgres
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__NAME: authentik
      AUTHENTIK_POSTGRESQL__PASSWORD: JKSHDFUHWEUEIORUhdsjhfglsdhuifghert
    user: root
    volumes:
      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
      - ./media:/media
      - ./certs:/certs
      - ./custom-templates:/templates
    depends_on:
      postgresql:
        condition: service_healthy
      redis:
        condition: service_healthy
networks:
  authentik:

Here are the logs when starting up Authentik docker compose:

authentik-worker  | {"event": "Starting authentik bootstrap", "level": "info", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364156.1238139}
authentik-worker  | {"event": "PostgreSQL connection failed, retrying... (connection failed: connection to server at \"172.18.0.3\", port 5432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?)", "level": "info", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364157.1261947}
authentik-worker  | {"event": "PostgreSQL connection failed, retrying... (connection failed: connection to server at \"172.18.0.3\", port 5432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?)", "level": "info", "logger": 
authentik-server  | {"event":"Loaded config","level":"debug","path":"inbuilt-default","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:48Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event":"Loaded config","level":"debug","path":"/authentik/lib/default.yml","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:48Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event":"Loaded config from environment","level":"debug","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:48Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event":"Starting HTTP server","level":"info","listen":"0.0.0.0:9000","logger":"authentik.router","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:49Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event":"Starting Metrics server","level":"info","listen":"0.0.0.0:9300","logger":"authentik.router.metrics","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:49Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event":"Starting HTTPS server","level":"info","listen":"0.0.0.0:9443","logger":"authentik.router","timestamp":"2025-07-24T13:35:49Z"}
authentik-server  | {"event": "Loaded config", "level": "debug", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364149.613906, "file": "/authentik/lib/default.yml"}
authentik-server  | {"event": "Loaded environment variables", "level": "debug", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364149.6143358, "count": 6}
authentik-server  | {"event": "Starting authentik bootstrap", "level": "info", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364149.953862}
authentik-server  | {"event": "PostgreSQL connection failed, retrying... (connection failed: connection to server at \"172.18.0.3\", port 5432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?)", "level": "info", "logger": "authentik.lib.config", "timestamp": 1753364150.955268}
authentik-server  | {"event": "PostgreSQL connection failed, retrying... (connection failed: connection to server at \"172.18.0.3\", port 5432 failed: Connection refused\n\tIs the server running on that host and accepting TCP/IP connections?)", "level": "info", "logger": 

time=“2025-07-23T20:49:22Z” level=info msg=“initialization started” caller=“/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:75” time=“2025-07-23T20:49:22Z” level=fatal msg=“unable to initialize the database” caller=“/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:68” error=“failed to connect to user=root database=postgres:\n\t127.0.0.1:5432 (localhost): dial error: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:5432: connect: connection refused\n\t[::1]:5432 (localhost): dial error: dial tcp [::1]:5432: connect: connection refused” time=“2025-07-23T20:49:23Z” level=info msg=“initialization started” caller=“/home/runner/work/zitadel/zitadel/cmd/initialise/init.go:75”

When I run docker compose up it’s initializes all the containers and then the zdb container fails to load and I get the error messages above. I can’t seem to paste my docker compose file or environment files since it formats the code very weirdly and makes it hard to read.