caddy

April 26, 2020 @ 13:03

As I discussed in my previous post, everyone should be running SSL now... but the hacks I talked about were a bit annoying. So I'm trying out something new: Caddy.

Over the years I've changed my web sites from entirely dynamically-generated template-based stuff in Perl and Python, into this one, which is completely static, generated by Hugo. So I don't really run anything overly-complicated in my Nginx config anymore.

I spent some time over this weekend converting this and my other sites to use Caddy, which handles 100% of the SSL certificate generation, and otherwise works just like a web server.

I also converted both of the web servers fronting my Home Assistant servers, one of which runs on a Raspberry Pi.

Now I'm going to have a beer, instead of manually renewing three certificates. Cheers.