I just used Caddy for the first time for https://lists.sh and was super impressed by the automatic TLS. The config was also 2 lines of code. Great work!
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
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#12I remember being a newgrad at my startup it was a huge pain to get HTTPS up and running, until I ran into Caddy. Loved it!
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#13Where does Caddy live in a Kubernetes world -- or does it? (I'm not the most knowledgeable with either, so genuinely curious how these pieces all fit together).
I think just like any other server, but with fewer things to set up (HTTPS, certificates, etc). We also have an ingress controller in the works: https://github.com/caddyserver/ingress
(Not a Kubernetes user, so my answer is probably not the best.)
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#14Where does Caddy live in a Kubernetes world -- or does it? (I'm not the most knowledgeable with either, so genuinely curious how these pieces all fit together).
Caddy at its simplest form is an HTTP server. So you could use it to front end your application that otherwise isn't well suited for taking direct HTTP requests. Caddy would bring you other features like TLS support.
However I think in K8s world Caddy would make the most sense as an Ingress Controller. There is even a project as such: https://github.com/caddyserver/ingress
All traffic would terminate first at Caddy. Handling TLS, HTTP1/2/3, etc. Then passing it back to your application service/pod.
Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
#15I just used Caddy for the first time for https://lists.sh and was super impressed by the automatic TLS. The config was also 2 lines of code. Great work!
very cool interface! login thru public key + ssh and lists contributed via scp
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#16I've been using this Docker image in a Docker Compose configuration to run some apps on a VPS
https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy
Pretty nice, handles routing to your containers and manages LetsEncrypt for you. Response times are super fast too (<= 100ms for an ASP Web API application which uses Postgres via Entity Framework).
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#17I just used Caddy for the first time for https://lists.sh and was super impressed by the automatic TLS. The config was also 2 lines of code. Great work!
very cool interface! login thru public key + ssh and lists contributed via scp
Thank you! I've been having a blast with the workflow. I think I'm going to make a sibling service that does the same thing but a more traditional blog platform with markdown support.
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#18Caddy is such a delight! I can't reccomend it fast enough when somebody mentions they are on nginx.
Small random feedback: I like the idea of JSON configuration but most of the common docs/recipes are documented only with the Caddyfile format. I couldn't figure out the full JSON schema that was expected so I wound up generating a Caddyfile string instead for my programatic control. Maybe there is some translation tooling that could help?
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#19Caddy is absolutely amazing.
I'm running it on an RPi that's hosting various home automation and hobby projects, all serving HTTP to the loopback interface only, with Caddy acting as a reverse proxy, and I've never even had to think about HTTPS. Adding a new service is adding a single line to my config file, and the rest happens automatically.
Finally, no more "trust this self-signed certificate" even for toy projects, no more port forwarding, copy-paste-ing dubious PEM and CRT files across services and Docker containers etc.
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#20Is Caddy scriptable? I don't know much about it. But ever since I discovered nginx-lua-module and OpenResty it's been pretty much a game-changer for me. Curious if other popular webservers have done similar? Not really talking about things like mod_perl/php. Although I guess those are somewhat the same thing.