the instances were an excuse for me to set up a cluster. I definitely know none of this isn’t needed. I wanted to get familiar with things that I do related to work, but never really get to get my hands dirty with. I did all of this because I wanted to learn.

it isn’t, I’m hosting a private gitea instance on a home computer.

you already have a cloud flare tunnel, so you can add a new entry for a domain and point it to another service. cloud flare handles the encryption. for docker, I have my reverse proxy on port 80 doing the routing and the docker route is http://localhost/

if you’re on your home network the address will be the IP address and, if you’re not using a reverse proxy, the port the app runs on.

with reverse proxy: http/s://192.168.8.2 or whatever without: http/s://<IP address>:3000 or whatever the port is