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Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by m-p-3 »

lxgr wrote: post #19

Caddy 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 project…

I'm definitely going to put Caddy on my next NAS build, sounds like a delightful proxy to setup.

Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by sgt »

evv wrote: post #18

Caddy 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 too…

I'm a heavy nginx user - there's not much that I haven't already done with it and I know the documentation quite well. Why would someone like me change to Caddy? I can see there are some NGINX Plus features that are free in Caddy.

Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by benbristow »

mholt wrote: post #23
benbristow wrote: post #16

I'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).

Best kept secret of Caddy+Docker.

Not a secret now haha!

I used to use this https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy (used to be under jwilder's GitHub account) which was also a good tool, and then used behind CloudFlare for free SSL certificates, but the Caddy container with automatic LetsEncrypt is fantastic also.

Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by okasaki »

lxgr wrote: post #19

Caddy 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 project…

Setting that up with nginx and acme.sh is pretty easy as well.

One benefit I found with using nginx is that services are more likely to have nginx proxy example configs, and sometimes these are non-trivial, eg.:

https://docs.mattermost.com/install/config-proxy-nginx.html

I guess with caddy you're on your own, which doesn't look like fun.

Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by tdhz77 »

sgt wrote: post #44
evv wrote: post #18

Caddy 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 too…

I'm a heavy nginx user - there's not much that I haven't already done with it and I know the documentation quite well. Why would someone like me change to Caddy? I can see there are some NGINX Plus features that are free in Caddy.

Single binary is nice, live config changes, let’s encrypt is built in.

Re: Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0

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Post by francislavoie »

okasaki wrote: post #46
lxgr wrote: post #19

Caddy 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 project…

Setting that up with nginx and acme.sh is pretty easy as well. One benefit I found with using nginx is that services are more likely to have nginx proxy example configs, and sometimes these are non-trivial, eg.: https://docs.mattermost.com/install/config-proxy-nginx.html I guess with caddy you're on your own, which doesn't look like fun.

Caddy's defaults usually mean your config ends up being 1/4 or less of the size of Nginx ultimately. Often the 'reverse_proxy' directive's defaults are good enough, if the app you're proxying to is reasonably modern.

But if you need help, we're very active on https://caddy.community/ to answer questions :)

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