Week 37, Server Management

14 September 2025

Updated: 16 September 2025

Off topic

Something off-topic but I just came across this explainer on the different task queues and related methods in Node.js that I thought would be a nice share

What I Found

I’ve been looking into/exploring some solutions for self hosting and had a little exploration/review of some tools with Kurt Lourens on some of the tech that’s available

Proxies

• Traefik is a reverse proxy that integrates really nicely with Docker by letting you configure endpoints via the container configuration in your environment

• Caddy is a web server and reverse proxy that supports TLS out of the box and is really nice to configure

Application Management

• Portainer is a management layer and UI for Docker and Kubernetes

• Arcane is another UI for managing Docker containers

• Komodo is a tool that simplifies the building and deployment of software across many servers