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mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks agoCheck out Cosmos, I struggled piecing things together but when I restarted from scratch with this as the base is has been SO much easier to get services working, while still being able to see how things work under the hood.
It’s basically a docker manager with integrated reverse proxy and OpenID SSO capability, with optional VPN and storage management
phonics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Im at the level where I don’t know what SSO means. I can follow instructions to change a DNS. But what a DNS actually is I don’t know. Which is fine, until I need to work out what’s broken
tuck182@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
SSO is “single sign on”. DNS is “domain name service”, which is just a way to turn a hostname (like www.google.com) into an IP address. It’s sort of like a phone directory, but for the Internet.
mierdabird@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
SSO is single sign on, so you don’t need individual username and password for every service. It’s a bit more advanced so don’t worry about it until you have what you want working properly for a while.
DNS is like the yellow pages of the internet - when you type www.google.com your computer uses a DNS server to look up what actual IP address corresponds to the website name. The point of Adguard or pihole is that when a website tries to load an ad your custom DNS server just says it doesn’t recognize the address
phonics@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh like a custom yellowpages, sick!