A stand-out feature has been ACME support built-in, and it’s a fairly capable reverse proxy. I’ve seen organizations use Caddy to provision certificates for customer domains at scale with very good results.
Personally, I much prefer the way caddy does configuration / plugins (as someone reasonably conversant in how nginx does those things) - comparable to "sysv init scripts vs systemd unit files".
I still think for Kubernetes ingress controller, traefik is more optimized for this use-case than Caddy. However, sitting in front of containers or a standalone reverse proxy I exclusively use Caddy.
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Is this an alternative to nginx or something?
It’s an http server like Apache or nginx.
A stand-out feature has been ACME support built-in, and it’s a fairly capable reverse proxy. I’ve seen organizations use Caddy to provision certificates for customer domains at scale with very good results.
Yes.
Personally, I much prefer the way caddy does configuration / plugins (as someone reasonably conversant in how nginx does those things) - comparable to "sysv init scripts vs systemd unit files".
I've never used caddy but "better config than nginx" is a pretty low bar.
Everyone I know has used Caddy by default for so long now that I'd describe Nginx as an alternative to Caddy, at this point.
It is, but I've mostly came across Caddy as a traefik alternative.
I still think for Kubernetes ingress controller, traefik is more optimized for this use-case than Caddy. However, sitting in front of containers or a standalone reverse proxy I exclusively use Caddy.