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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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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 months ago

Traefik and caddy were mentioned, the third in the game is usually nginxproxymanager.

I'm using both traefik and nginx in two different setups. The nginxproxymanager can be configured via UI natively which makes checking configurations a bit easier.

Traefik on the other hand is configured easily within the compose itself and you have everything in one place.

This turned out to be tiresome though if you don't have a monolithic compose file - that's actually even hr history why I switched to npm in the first place.

I don't have any experience with caddy so can't provide anecdotal insights there.