I recently started as a intern and I'm overwhelmed with my job. We have a product which is hosted externally. We only have a simple router.
The Services should be running in Docker Containers with Reverse-proxy on a server. These services should be reachable with another devices on the private network via browser. Can I set Domains for the services in hosts.txt and can these services be reachable in private network?
Is it better to resolve domains with a intern DNS-resolver? In best case it should only come to work when our specific Domains are asked.
On the other hand we are thinking of getting a hardware Firewall anyway. Can it do this job? It had been said that the firewall should not route.
On the whole we are looking for the best practical path of least resistance to be able to internally route to these services with domains.