Caddy does have some bizarre limitations I've run into, particularly logging with different permissions when it writes the file, so other processes like promtail can read the logs. With Caddy you cannot change them, it always writes with very restrictive permissions.

I find their docs also really hard to deal with, trying to figure out something that would be super simple on Nginx can be really difficult on Caddy, if it's outside the scope of 'normal stuff'

The other thing I really don't like is if you install via a package manager to get automated updates, you don't get any of the plugins. If you want plugins you have to build it yourself or use their build service, and you don't get automatic updates.

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francislavoie 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Actually, you can set the permissions for log files now. See https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/log#file

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Saris 2 days ago | parent [-]

Oh good to know!

Do you know if Caddy can self update or if is there some other easy method? Manually doing it to get the cloudflare plugin is a pain.

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francislavoie 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

No, you have to build Caddy with plugins. We provide xcaddy to make it easy. Sign up for notifications on github for releases, and just write yourself a tiny bash script to build the binary with xcaddy, and restart the service. You could potentially do a thing where you hook into apt to trigger your script after Caddy's deb package version changes, idk. But it's up to you to handle.

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dizhn 2 days ago | parent [-]

I am wondering why you said "no" to the self update thing.

https://caddyserver.com/docs/command-line#caddy-upgrade

	▲	francislavoie 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Because that's not automated, it's a manual command and uses caddyserver.com resources (relatively low powered cloud VMs) with no uptime guarantees. It _should not_ be used in automation scenarios, only for quick manual personal use scenarios.

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nodesocket 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I use Caddy as my main reverse proxy into containers with CloudFlare based DNS let’s encrypt. The syntax is intuitive and just works. I’ve used Traefik in the past with Kubernetes and while powerful the setup and grok ability has quite a bit steeper learning curve.

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dizhn 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can have the binary self update with currently included plugins. I think the command line help says it's beta but has always worked fine for me.

	▲	Saris 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'll give that a try!