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I can recommend rathole ( https://github.com/rapiz1/rathole ).
All it does is port forwarding. Easy to configure, easy to reason about, easy to dockerise.
If you need reverse proxying, you have to set that up either on the public server, or on local infra (chances are, you already have reverse proxy locally so rathole just needs to forward 80/443).
If its only for personal access (ie, you dont want services actually accessible by the internet) i can recommend tailscale for that. Its an auto-configuring wireguard VPN whose main selling point is NAT traversal. Very easy to set up, and very reliable.
Why rathole and not ssh tunneling? The latter exposes only one port (that you are already exposing anyway) while the former requires an additional port.
What is the actual benefit of rathole? I an asking genuinely.
I think 1 big advantage is that rathole can work over a websocket connection.
So, if obfiscating, having to go via HTTP proxies, or whatever... rathole will still work.
This is a great reason, I didn't know, but its interesting.