Alternative to certbot for acquiring ssl certificates to use with nginx.
Hello, I wan't to ask if anyone knows of a good alternative for certbot for acquiring ssl certificates for nginx.
Certbot isn't good anymore for me since I started using crowdsec with nginx bouncer that uses lua block's inside nginx config that cerbot can't parse, making it not work anymore.
I use nginx because it's the one I know the best and for my use case work's the best. ( Hosting both program's directly on metal and docker container's )
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if you are open to learn something new: Caddy webserver has a dead simple config, fetches tls certs by default for you and works with crowdsec too
Caddy is fantastic, incredibly easy to configure and just works out of the box beautifully.
Do you have it on host or container. I'm thinking abour switching to caddy on my host and replacing nginx with it but just wan't to hear your experience with it.
I run it in its own separate VM. Normally I use containers for everything, but Caddy being the part that's most on the outside of my network, as it were, I wanted to separate off.
I'm open to using sothing like caddy or traefic, but my issue is I have a mix of packages hosted directly on system and in docker container's and as such need to proxy them all.
That's why I'm not using caddy or traefic.
Edit: rn my mix consists of about 16 diff containeraized stuff and another 4-5 not containerized stuff.
Edit2: Just now realized that they can be used on the host system's also. Would you recommend traefic or caddy?
If all was containerised, I'd recommend traefik for its impeccable container integration, but for a mix of bare metal and container services I'd go with Caddy.
I'm using Caddy (sometimes in a container or most of the time as system package) as reverse proxy mostly for containers
I try to minimize non-container services but they work well with Caddy too
Traefik is a tad more complex (still nowhere near Apache2 levels though) but scales more easily espcially if you only run containers and start/stop them programatically