Ultimate Pi-hole configuration guide, SSL certificates, automatic updates, automatic sync, more!

Pi-hole is an awesome solution to run in your home network to keep your Internet free of ads, malicous traffic, and tracking data. Would you like to learn how to setup a Pi-hole instance in your home lab based on Docker? We take an in-depth look at setting up Pi-hole with Docker in the home lab, how to set up using the Docker run command line, Docker-compose, and then also Docker-compose with Traefik and Pi-hole.

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Introduction to Pihole, with Docker, SSL certificates, and synchronization - 0:00
Pihole, DNS, and network level ad blocking improving Internet browsing at home - 0:59
What is Pihole? - 1:16
Intercepting DNS requests in your home network - 1:34
Overview of installing Pihole with Docker - 2:14
Using the Docker command line to install Pihole - 2:30
Going through the Docker run command to install Pi-hole - 2:45
Spinning up the Pihole container - 3:54
Issuing Docker ps to see the running Pihole container - 4:13
Browsing out to the web interface of our Pihole container - 4:35
Using Docker Compose to move to HTTPS and SSL certificates - 5:00
Stepping through the Docker Compose file - 5:38
Looking at the Pihole container configuration in Docker Compose - 6:31
Setting the names of the Pihole host in Docker Compose - 7:30
Running the Docker Compose file with Docker up -d - 8:11
Docker-compose ps to view state - 8:35
Browsing out to the Pihole container on the DNS name configured over HTTPS SSL - 8:50
Configuring proper SSL certificates on your Pi-hole container - 9:32
Using Traefik to pull proper SSL certificates - 9:52
Looking at Docker Compose to add Letsencrypt certificates and Cloudflare to pull proper SSL certificates - 10:06
Configuring TLS domains and wildcard certificates from Letsencrypt - 11:15
Entering your Cloudflare email address and API token - 11:47
Talking public DNS - 12:35
Adding a Watchtower container to automatically update your Pi-hole container - 12:47
Running docker-compose up -d - No certificate errors - 13:14
Running multiple Pihole instances for high availability - 13:38
Overview of Gravity sync from VMStan - 13:58
Configuring Gravity Sync - 14:33
Running Gravity sync - 15:00
Wrapping up thoughts on Pi-hole ultimate configuration guide - 16:03

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