ultraHQTraefik, Caddy, Nginx, etc. what is your reverse proxy of choice, and why?
Antik 👾For me it's https://nginxproxymanager.com/ it's just so easy to setup and use.
I used Traefik on my Docker stack and it's pretty neat, though it took some time for me to get my head around how to configure it correctly.
I second NPM. As you mentioned it’s been very easy to use, but I also haven’t been trying to do anything complicated.
I’ve never used load balancing so perhaps Caddy or Traefik is easier to use than NPM in that regard, but I wouldn’t know.
Yes NPM is for basic reverse proxying, so one URL to one server. If you wanted to scale and load balance across multiple servers you'd need regular nginx with a text config file since you literally can't configure a second or third server.
And I'd still find that easier than Traefik, but maybe that's just because I've been using Apache2 and nginx for like a decade at this point so it's what I know.
D4NM3DI've been using NPM for years.. but since 2.10.3 broke SSL certificates and there's been literally no interest from JC21 to fix the problem (there's a PR ready to go) i've been forced to look elsewhere and have settled on caddy for now..
To be fair, the pull request was last week. It's inconvenient but life/work balance.
Agreed but it's more the worry that it's been broken for over 3 weeks and the dev(s) seems to have no interest in resolving it... to me that is a bad sign of things to come and projects being abandoned.
If i'm incorrect and the devs have been vocal about the issue then please correct me and point me to where i should be looking.
I not challenging you, so please don't take of fence here but is the issue sincerely a 'lack of interest' or is it just that NPM is FOSS and the maintainer is bogged down with life? You could fork it and fix it.
It's a very good question and of course.. i could fork it and fix it using the PR.. but then that would be it.. I'm not experienced enough to even achieve that to be honest..
My issue I guess is not so much with the fact that there is a problem... it's with the fact that i can't afford for my homelab to be down because it's never fixed or takes time to fix... i appreciate all of this is free.. i think i may of even donated at some point because i was so thankful it existed.. but now it's such an integral part of my and my families life that i cannot have something in my stack that isn't going to be fixed rapidly.
JC21 created an amazing product and if it's fixed or V3 ever appears i'll 100% check it out.. but for now whilst it's not as pretty.. i have to fall back to caddy.
I second that. Amazing easy to use, configure, supports (LetsEncrypt) certificates via DNS-01 challenge and integrates with ease with most DNS providers.
Paired with authentication providers (keycloak, authelia, authentik), the "advanced" textbox lets you do forward proxying really easy, or customize your "basic proxy".
I'm not sure how many of these features are present in Traefik, it would be really nice if any of you know if any of these are easily supported in it:
- Forward proxying
- Custom rewrites (nginx
internal;rewrites) - Unattended DNS-01 support with ACME (LetsEncrypt)
I used NPM for a very long time, but after I switched to podman, DNS name resolution for containers stopped working in NPM, they work fine in every other container. Switched to caddy and it's okay, it only supports HTTP transports so I can't use it as a gateway for my DoH/DoT server, but that's not a huge deal. Once NPM works properly on podman I may switch back