Hey everyone,

Just a quick question, let’s encrypt, what is it and how can I take advantage of its services?

For a bit of background I’m trying to setup KanIDM and the need for a ca certificate is needed, I was told to use let’s encrypt to create it.

Just looking for knowledge.

Thanks!

  • Alado@lemmy.worldEnglish
    195·
    11 months ago

    Use Caddy as a web server and forget about setting up certificates forever. This masterpiece will take care of it.

    • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      I had been using Nginx and LetsEncrypt for years and while it worked well most of the time, sometimes it was a bit of a pain, especially due to the verbosity of the Nginx config file. I was using both of them in docker containers and that requires you to have 3 specific environmental variables set for each container.

      I tried using Traefik, and while concise, it was still a bit confusing.

      I finally decided to give Caddy a try a few months back after hearing about it for years. I’m disappointed that I didn’t try it sooner because it’s so freaking simple to use. I rewrote my entire docker-compose file to use it because it’s that simple. I love how it takes literally 3 lines to create a SSL secured reverse proxy.

    • fraydabson@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      31·
      11 months ago

      Love caddy. Took a little bit for me to understand but it’s an amazing tool. I barely use a fraction of its capabilities.

      • pete_the_cat@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 months ago

        I had been using Nginx for years until I finally switched to Caddy a few months ago, I’m disappointed in myself that I didn’t check it out sooner lol. Caddy is to Nginx like what Nginx is to Apache.

        I have like 15 reverse proxies setup and it takes the same amount of code that about 4 or 5 would take in Nginx.