A few years back I wrote a blogpost about how I combined a dockerized cloudflared proxy-dns with pi-hole to get DNS over HTTPS up and running at home. The idea was simple: wrap the cloudflared binary into a lightweight docker image, wire it up with pi-hole, and have your DNS requests travel over HTTPS rather than plain UDP.

It was a modest little project. Nothing fancy — just packaging an existing binary, writing some dgoss tests around it, and automating the builds for multiple architectures through CI. But apparently it scratched an itch for a lot of people, because over the …

a few months ago I configured a thin client as my home server to replace the previous raspberry pi setup.

During that migration I moved over all native services within docker containers. One of those services being a pi-hole setup to block ad serving domains on dns level and to have a dns cache within our LAN to gain a bit of speed.

It has been running ever since without any issue and worked pretty well.

When cloudflare announced their fast and privacy based DNS resolver I got a bit intrigued by their DNS over HTTPS feature. Especially since our …