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.

  • unwritten
    2•1 year ago

    At the first time move to Caddy, I had an issue adding Caddy container to all the current docker networks.
    How do you tackle that issue?

    • PerhyteEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      I use docker-compose, and basically just end all my docker-compose.yaml files with

      networks:
  default:
    external:
      name: proxynet

      This redefines the default network to a pre-existing proxynet network. All services that do not specify a network configuration automatically get added to that network. Because this refers to the same network in each file, it is shared even with services defined in other yaml files (which is not the default).

      The proxynet network was created manually using docker network create proxynet.