It was waitlist for a while, not sure if it still is but I got my welcome email like a week later.

Partially yes, the tricky thing is that when using network_mode: "service:tailscale" (presumably on the caddy container since that’s what needs to receive traffic from the tailscale network), you won’t be able to attach the caddy container to any networks since it’s using the tailscale network stack. This means that in order for caddy to reach your containers, you will need to add the tailscale container itself to the relevant networks. Any attached containers will be connected as well.

(Not sure if I misread the first time or if you edited but the way you say it is right, add the tailscale container to the proxy network so that caddy will also be added and can reach the containers)

Here’s the super condensed version of what matters for connecting traefik/caddy to a VPN like wireguard/tailscale.

• I left out all WG config since presumably you know how to configure tailscale
• Left out acme / letsencrypt stuff since that would be different on caddy anyway
• You may need to configure caddy to trust the tailscale tunnel IP of the machine on the other end that will be reverse proxying over the tunnel.
• Traefik I guess requires you to specify the docker network to use to reach stuff, I just put anything that should be accessible into “ingress” as you can see. I’m not sure if my setup supports using a different proxy network per app but maybe caddy allows that.

My traefik compose:

services:
  wireguard:
    container_name: wireguard
    networks:
      - ingress

  traefik:
    network_mode: "service:wireguard"
    depends_on:
      - wireguard
    command:
      - "--entryPoints.web.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.13.13.1" # Trust remote tunnel IP, the WG container is 10.13.13.2
      - "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
      - "--entryPoints.websecure.proxyProtocol.trustedIPs=10.13.13.1"
      - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.to=websecure"
      - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.scheme=https"
      - "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entrypoint.priority=100"
      - "--providers.docker.exposedByDefault=false"
      - "--providers.docker.network=ingress"

networks:
  ingress:
    external: true

And then in a service’s docker-compose:

services:
  ui:
    image: myapp
    read_only: true
    restart: always
    labels:
      - "traefik.enable=true"
      - "traefik.http.routers.myapp.rule=Host(`xxxx.xxxx.xxxx`)"
      - "traefik.http.services.myapp.loadbalancer.server.port=80"
      - "traefik.http.routers.myapp.entrypoints=websecure"
      - "traefik.http.routers.myapp.tls.certresolver=mytlschallenge"
    networks:
      - ingress

networks:
  ingress:
    external: true

(edited to fix formatting on mobile)

I’ve done something similar but I’m not sure how helpful my example would be because I use wireguard instead of tailscale and traefik instead of caddy.

The principle is the same though, iirc I have my traefik container set to network_mode: “service:wireguard” so that the traefik container uses the wireguard container’s network stack. That way the traefik container also sees the wireguard interface and can receive traffic going to the wireguard IP. Then at the other end of the wireguard tunnel I can use haproxy to pass traffic to the wireguard IP through the tunnel and it automatically hits traefik.

If the machine doesn’t boot then you can use this to access the bios and boot a recovery environment of your choice remotely using pxeboot.