Guacamole Remote Desktop - Open Source, Self Hosted Remote Access to Your Machines in the Browser

A hands-on walkthrough of self-hosting Guacamole for browser-based access to remote desktop sessions. It covers deployment with Docker Compose or Portainer, configuring a connection, adding a URL through Nginx Proxy Manager, and strengthening login security with multi-factor authentication and Authelia.

Syllabus

Beginning
Introduction to Guacamole RDP
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Setting up a Non-Root User in our host system
Installing Docker-CE and Docker-Compose the easy way
Setup Portainer-CE Docker UI
Install Guacamole with Docker-Compose
Install Guacamole with Portainer-CE
Looking at our Guacamole Install for the First Time
Adding a more secure user to Guacamole
Deleting the Guacamole Default User
Other Guacamole Settings
Creating a new Remote Desktop Connection
Connecting to our new RDP Session
Setup NGinx Proxy Manager to give our Guacamole a full URL
Adding Multi-Factor Authentication to our Guacamole Install using Extensions
BONUS: Adding Authelia in front of Guacamole for Extra Security