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0 pointsAjedi326mo ago0 comments

Does Caddy automatically detect when you deploy a new Docker service and reconfigure itself to route traffic to that service? That's pretty much the main value preposition of Traefik for me. I don't want to be messing with config files when I'm deploying.

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rirze6mo ago

Yes, there's [caddy-docker-proxy](https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy) which I personally use in my homelab. It will read and update on docker compose labels to configure the route. Highly recommend.

sph6mo ago

Caddy is a webserver like Apache or nginx. Integration with Docker is a higher-level layer. There’s caddy-docker-proxy but I haven’t tried it.

Ajedi32OP6mo ago

Traefik is also a web server like Apache or Nginx and it does integrate with Docker. I thought that feature was like the entire reason to use Trafik, so I guess I just find the comparison a bit strange.

jspdown6mo ago

Traefik maintainer here.

Traefik is a reverse proxy and load balancer that automatically discovers services and configures routing rules dynamically through integration with various configuration sources such as container orchestrators (Docker, K8s, Nomad, Consul, ECS, ...)

As of today, Traefik is not a web server.

LtdJorge6mo ago

Traefik is a proxy first

ajayvk6mo ago

I have been building an app deployment service https://github.com/openrundev/openrun.

For the use case of network routing for services running in containers, OpenRun provides a simpler abstraction. It does the container management and the network proxying.

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