# Self-Hosting Your Homelab Services with SSL -- Let's Encrypt, MetalLB, Traefik, Rancher, Kubernetes

DevFeed: [Self-Hosting Your Homelab Services with SSL -- Let's Encrypt, MetalLB, Traefik, Rancher, Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/self-hosting-your-homelab-services-with-ssl-let-s-encrypt-metallb-traefik-rancher-kubernetes-10657.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://technotim.com/posts/reverse-proxy-kubernetes/>)

Author: Techno Tim

Published: 2020-08-15T14:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Techno Tim](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/techno-tim.md>)

Topics: [Homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/homelab.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [Tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/tutorial.md>), [Kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/kubernetes.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/rancher.md>), [traefik](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/traefik.md>), [SSL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssl.md>)

Tags: [certificates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/certificates.md>), [homelab](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/homelab.md>), [ingress](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ingress.md>), [kubernetes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/kubernetes.md>), [proxy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/proxy.md>), [rancher](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/rancher.md>), [self-hosting](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/self-hosting.md>), [ssl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssl.md>), [traefik](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/traefik.md>), [tutorial](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/tutorial.md>), [video](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/video.md>), [vpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpn.md>)

## AI overview

A step-by-step video tutorial for securing self-hosted homelab services with SSL certificates. It covers Rancher, Kubernetes, Kubernetes Ingress, MetalLB, Traefik, Let's Encrypt, and DNS, including a staging-to-production certificate configuration change.

## Source excerpt

Are you self-hosting lots of services at home in your homelab? Have you been port forwarding or using VPN to access your self-hosted services wishing you had certificates so that you can access them securely over SSL? Well after this video, you can! In this step by step tutorial we'll walk through setting up Rancher and Kubernetes with a reverse proxy, Kubernetes Ingress, MetalLB, Traefik, L...