Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot?

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• notannpc@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve used traefik for 7 years at this point and the only time I had to think about certificates was when I blocked my servers running traefik from making DNS calls needed for the cert generation.

  I’ve got 6 domains now all with certs managed by traefik. Highly recommend checking it out, especially if you’re running most things in docker.

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  • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Traefik is a godsent. Just build your services with compose, add a few labels and most services work directly. If a service needs additional headers or whatever, that’s just more labels but traefik takes care of it all. Especially the certificate function makes the whole deal so much more comfortable

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• JoeKrogan@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No. Not everyone uses traefik or caddy

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  • BenPranklin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah man, that’s the point of the article. Its asking the question “should everyone who isnt using them already move to them”

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• abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Certbot is so problematic we still pay for most of our certificates because it’s more reliable.

  I’m not sure if Caddy/Traefik is the answer but it’s clear the work should be handed over to a team with a proper focus on reliability.

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  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Can you elaborate on this reliability issue?

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    • abhibeckert@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Certbot is supposed to automatically renew certificates. It doesn’t do that reliably in my experience.

      We use it on non-critical systems and every few months I need to go in and fix things… that never happened under the old system.

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• megaman@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I started out using certbot, but once i needed a reverse proxy i found caddy. I was confused at first at how to set up the certificates for caddy, but it told me it would just work and my sites have the https and the little lock, so i guess it is just magic!

  Have found caddy to be generally easy. I think first starting with it took a bit more to figure out, but it does work well

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• lemann@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I use certbot on only a single one of my oldest projects that has been going for almost a decade.

  For everything else I use acme.sh because it works so well and integrates with a ton of DNS providers. The one time I had an issue, it was already fixed in a PR, so I just checked out that fixed version and used it for renewals until it was merged in.

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• pztrn@bin.pztrn.name ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Using Caddy for couple of years already at home, yet using certbot at job, because of requirements to use nginx as balancer.

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