My homelab is still in its infancy as I’m at the start of my self-hosting journey. I’m now down the rabbit hole though and where I can self host, I’d like to.

Not long back, I asked for some advice regarding an IFTTT replacement. I only need a tiny subset of the service, in that I want it to check some RSS feeds and send a notification if it finds one. The people of the fediverse are amazing and I got some great recommendations, however some felt like a great fit but didn’t pan out. That left me with less and less.

One of the suggestions though was n8n and as I looked into giving it a whirl, I noticed it needed Traefik to be installed.

Now here’s the thing, I haven’t sorted out my router yet and since nothing I’m doing is facing the net, I’m kinda just chilling without a proper set up. I’m wondering, if I install Traefik along with n8n, will it break my other services? Will I still be able to install my homebrew router with OpenWRT when I finally sort that out and will it impact the IPTV which I’ll sort out when I’ve sorted out the router?

  • Churchill@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    3 months ago

    installing Traefik or n8n itself on a machine connected to the network shouldn’t break or impact any services.

    but in the process of setting up your homelab to connect to them, you might misconfigure your network and “break” your services.

    e.g. misconfiguring your DNS and suddenly your IPTV seems broken

    I like keeping notes on the changes I do to the network. That helps me remember and undo my changes if necessary.

    • sabreW4K3OPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Thanks for the advice. I ended up finding an n8n compose file sans Traefik, so this isn’t a problem yet. But what you said about keeping notes on my network changes is good advice. Especially as I get closer and closer to sorting out my router.