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Caddy seems to good to be true? I just set it up and it works perfect, straight out of the box (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by Zestyclose_Car1088@alien.top to c/main@selfhosted.forum
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This seems too straightforward, what's the catch?

Like how secure is it? Should I be turning it off (and disabling the port forwarding) when not using it?

Do I need any additional security? Mainly just want to use it for Jellyfin

Thanks

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[โ€“] adamshand@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I switched from Traefik to Caddy a few years ago and have no ragrets. The only complaints I have about Caddy:

  • It doesn't support configuring virtual hosts automatically via docker labelsl (like Traefik).
  • Many features (like DNS auth for certs) require compiling Caddy. Which is easy but annoying.
[โ€“] ghoarder@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I wrote something that can setup caddy automatically from docker labels.

It's not well documented as I mostly wrote it for myself. https://hub.docker.com/r/mheys1/docker-dynamic-caddy https://github.com/mattheys/ddc

It basically acts like a DNS server serving up SRV records that caddy can use for dynamic configuration, I added in an on_demand_tls endpoint as well so that you don't get spammed for non existent TLS records.

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