Inspired by everyone here, I’ve spent the past few months playing with hosting my own instances of various open source projects. I just use them on my local network, and love the automatic mDNS my_machine_name.local addresses.
I also love Traefik’s use of Docker Compose labels as a source of hostname configuration (docs), so I thought it would be nice to automatically publish these too!
If this sounds interesting, you can find usage instructions and technical details on GitHub. This is my first published project, so I apologize for any rough edges, but I’ll try my best to accommodate feedback :)
This project uses mDNS, which is specific to the
.localTLD. The whole reason that people are against the use of.localis because it would break mDNS. So you can set a custom TLD, but it doesn’t matter because this is actually the correct context for.localto be used, and changing the TLD will actually break things for a lot of clients.