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[–] rimu@piefed.social 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

They both implement the ACME protocol internally, allowing them to integrate with services like Let’s Encrypt to automate regularly obtaining the certificates needed to offer HTTPS.

I did not realise this. Very nice, I'll be trying Caddy on my next server!

[–] elvith@feddit.de 9 points 7 months ago

My newest vps runs with Caddy. Works like a charm. The downside was, that I didn't think of the automatic certificate deployment when I set everything up and it wouldn't come up a first when I only wanted to connect locally to it, as it tried to get a certificate but the challenge failed because I hadn't the firewall open yet. But besides that it was very smooth so far.

[–] Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use Traefik for all of my containerised services. It's fantastic.

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

You know what's even better? You can point traefik to your own ACME-compatible CA (I use step-ca) to get certs for LAN-only services. And you can even configure per service which one it should use.

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Is this better than using wildcard certificates?

I have local only SSL via a wildcard *.local.domain.com

Instructions here:

https://youtu.be/liV3c9m_OX8

[–] dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de 3 points 7 months ago

I think I set that up back when Let's Encrypt didn't offer wildcard certificates. In the end, it serves pretty much the same purpose.

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 10 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I've had pretty good experience with caddy, although some key aspects of documentation I found hard to find - namely, how to use it with docker compose and a custom build with other plugins like dns challenge and dynamic dns

[–] gullmar@feddit.it 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Personally, I followed the instructions to install Caddy with Docker Compose in the Nextcloud AIO reverse proxy documentation. Regarding building custom images, there are the instructions to build a custom Caddy image in a Dockerfile in the Docker Hub page.

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 points 7 months ago

Yep, I think that's what I found too. I set it up to use nextcloud aio as well, it just took me a while to find that docker page

[–] nis@feddit.dk 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So... Did you find documentation about how to do that?

[–] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 points 7 months ago

Yes, but it was piece by piece as I went

[–] jherazob@beehaw.org 1 points 7 months ago

I use this, it's very much not perfect but works: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

[–] palarith@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I use cerbot, but not trusting enough to let it touch any conf files

[–] Rekhyt@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Yeah, it just replaces the cert files and reload/restarts nginx for me. I don't want it anywhere near my config files.

[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 3 points 7 months ago

Isn't Certbot like the "reference implementation" though?

I've been using Traefik for several years now, but I think having a tool that allows troubleshooting the process step by step is also valuable.