Zero Open Ports: How I Expose 28 Homelab Services Without Touching My Router
Back in 2022, accessing my homelab remotely meant one of two things: either I was VPN’d in, or I was squinting at a sticky note trying to remember whether Grafana was on port 3000 or 3001. I had a growing list of services Proxmox, Grafana, Prometheus, Dashy, TrueNAS and every single one lived behind an IP address and a port number that I had to memorize, write down, or look up. 192.168.1.10:8006. 192.168.1.15:3000. 192.168.1.20:9090. It worked, but it wasn’t infrastructure. It was chaos with a static IP. ...