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Best reverse proxy with ACME to run in docker (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 days ago by reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been self hosting traditionally in debian, but I would like to be able to add services easier using docker. As such, I'm looking to move to a container based architecture.

One place I struggle is that I can't seem to find a good container where the default image supports ACME to support Let's encrypt for automatic cert renewal.

For Nginx, I would have you build my container. HAproxy ACME support seems to be a shell script.

Any suggestions?

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[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 1 point 2 days ago

Npm and npmplus are great

[–] stratself@lemdro.id 3 points 4 days ago

Caddy supports the HTTP-01 and TLS-ALPN-01 challenges by default, you just need to expose 80/443 and it just works. But if you want to use the DNS-01 challenge you'd need to build it with a plugin of your DNS provider.

Traefik supports all 3 challenges equally ootb, with a wide range of DNS providers. But it is a bit harder to configure and doesn't support being a web server.

[–] JRaccoon@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago (1 child)

I use Caddy and it's great. ACME is very easy to configure, as is everything else. I haven't tried running it in a container tho but they have official images published so it should work without issues.

[–] mereo@piefed.ca 1 point 5 days ago

I don't think running Caddy in a container is needed. All my apps are docker images and Caddy is a system app. I treated as an important OS app.

[–] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 1 point 4 days ago

I didn't understand, why not use nginx? It has built in support for let's encrypt by default, you just have to activate it in the nginx config. https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_acme_module.html

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 point 5 days ago

Take a look at Zoraxy or NPM.

[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 point 5 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters	More Letters
DNS	Domain Name Service/System
HTTP	Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
HTTPS	HTTP over SSL
SSL	Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS	Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPS	Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
k8s	Kubernetes container management package
nginx	Popular HTTP server

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