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Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? (www.eff.org)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 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!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 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.