Come on and fight me…
I just tried out caddy for the first time and found it to be fantastic, I have used both Traefik and Nginx Proxy Manager extensively and although they were both great, the simplicity of the Caddfilr is fantastic. With a few snippets configured, I can add a host with a single line that just defines the port and url, it’s like magic.
Has anyone got any known traps ( or tips) with caddy to make it useful.
The issues I have had previously with Traefik were the need to have multiplelines to configure it (and configure the host and router separately), and the difference between local docker services ( I do like using labels to configure, but with lots of services it gets a bit fragmented and difficult toanahe) and remote services ( had to use the file config).
With NPM, I find using the GUI to configure the servers difficult ( and challenging to keep consistent ) and I had a time that it forgot something ( can’t remember if it was certificates or something else ) and that was the straw that broke the camel’s back for me.
Anyway, currently I am happy with caddy and am not planning on replacing it (at least for a month or two :D ). It would be nice if there was a GUI, but no big drama honestly, and the text config is great.
Completely a personal preference, but this is one reason I prefer caddy. I like to keep the configs separate and not clutter up my compose files.
It means I need to update two things when adding a new service (a compose file plus my caddy file), but I like the separation of concerns.
It also makes my proxy config consistent for all services, regardless of whether that run in docket or elsewhere.
I just use dockerized service and I plan to move to k8s so I don’t have (nor plan to) deal with anything besides dockerized services
Yeah, then I can see the appeal of keeping everything in the same configs.