Applications
Intermediate
Homepage: The Dashboard for All Your Self-Hosted Services
A tidy start dashboard for your server: Homepage links every service, shows system load and the live Docker container …
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6 min read
Tag
Docker: guides & tutorials
All Serverküche tutorials tagged Docker – hands-on step-by-step self-hosting guides for your own server.
23 tutorials
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Applications
Intermediate
Host Your Own Website with Hugo – Like Serverküche Itself
Build a static website with Hugo and serve it from a Docker container behind Traefik – fast, secure, no database. …
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8 min read
Basics
Intermediate
Understanding Docker Networks: bridge, internal DNS & the proxy network
Why does every app recipe declare a proxy network? This guide explains Docker networks, internal DNS and container …
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7 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Optimizing Immich: mobile backup, multilingual AI search & family setup (Part 2)
Immich part 2: make the mobile backup reliable, switch the AI search to your language, add existing photos as an …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
AdGuard Home: network-wide ad and tracking blocker
Set up AdGuard Home with Docker: your own DNS server that blocks ads, trackers and malicious sites for all devices – …
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8 min read
Applications
Advanced
Forgejo Actions: your own CI/CD runner with Docker
Set up and register a Forgejo Actions runner with Docker-in-Docker: your own CI/CD pipelines on the self-hosted Git …
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9 min read
Applications
Intermediate
ntfy: push notifications from your own server to your phone
Self-host ntfy with Docker & Traefik: push messages to your phone via a simple curl – ideal for backup reports, …
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11 min read
Basics
Beginner
Docker volumes vs. bind mounts: where your data really lives
Named volume or bind mount? This foundational guide explains the difference, shows both with real examples, and when to …
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7 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Self-hosting Matomo cookieless: analytics without a consent banner
Set up Matomo 5.12 with Docker & Traefik: privacy-friendly web analytics with IP anonymization, entirely without Google …
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13 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Forgejo: your own Git server behind Traefik
Set up Forgejo with Docker & Traefik: your own Git server with HTTPS, repos via web UI, cloning over HTTPS and SSH – the …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
HitKeep: self-host privacy-friendly web analytics
Set up HitKeep with Docker and Traefik: cookieless, GDPR-friendly website statistics on your own server – with tracking …
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11 min read
Basics
Advanced
Keeping your whole Docker stack safely up to date
Update discipline for your Docker stack: pin versions, get notified about updates with Diun, apply them safely, clean up …
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14 min read
Security
Advanced
CrowdSec: modern, collaborative intrusion prevention
Set up CrowdSec with the Traefik bouncer: detect attacks from the access logs, block attackers with a 403 and benefit …
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17 min read
Containers
Advanced
Monitoring with Grafana & Prometheus: your server in live dashboards
A complete monitoring stack of Prometheus, node-exporter, cAdvisor and Grafana behind Traefik – with live metrics for …
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12 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Self-hosting Jellyfin: your own media server behind Traefik
Set up Jellyfin with Docker behind Traefik: stream your movies, series and music – with HTTPS and the library on …
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12 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Self-hosting Immich: your private photo backup behind Traefik
Set up Immich with Docker behind Traefik: the self-hosted alternative to Google Photos – with automatic phone backup, …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Self-hosting Paperless-ngx: the paperless office with OCR
Set up Paperless-ngx with Docker behind Traefik: archive documents searchably via OCR – with full-text search, tags and …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Installing Uptime Kuma: server monitoring behind Traefik
Set up Uptime Kuma behind Traefik and monitor your services: monitors, notifications and a status page – the first real …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Self-hosting Nextcloud: your own cloud behind Traefik
Set up Nextcloud with Docker behind Traefik: your own cloud for files, calendar and contacts – with MariaDB, Redis and …
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11 min read
Applications
Intermediate
Vaultwarden: your own password manager behind Traefik
Self-host Vaultwarden: a lean, Bitwarden-compatible password manager behind Traefik with HTTPS, an admin panel and an …
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11 min read
Containers
Intermediate
Setting up Traefik: reverse proxy with automatic HTTPS
Traefik as a reverse proxy in front of your containers, with automatic Let's Encrypt certificates: every app gets a …
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13 min read
Containers
Intermediate
Understanding Docker Compose: services, volumes, networks
compose.yaml explained: services, volumes, networks and variables – the Docker vocabulary every app recipe in the …
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11 min read
Containers
Beginner
Installing Docker on Debian
Install Docker Engine and Docker Compose cleanly from the official repository – the foundation for most self-hosting …
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4 min read