Can free and open source software projects like Caddy and Traefik eventually replace EFF’s Certbot? Although Certbot continues to be developed, we think tools like these help offer a promising path forward in the further development of a secure and encrypted web. For some users, tools like these...
  • Rimu@piefed.social
    14·
    10 months ago

    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!

    • elvith@feddit.de
      9·
      10 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.

      • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
        3·
        10 months ago

        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.

          • dfyx@lemmy.helios42.de
            3·
            10 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.