acme-companion VS Caddy

Compare acme-companion vs Caddy and see what are their differences.

acme-companion

Automated ACME SSL certificate generation for nginx-proxy (by nginx-proxy)
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acme-companion Caddy
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7,229 53,025
0.9% 2.3%
7.6 9.4
about 1 month ago 7 days ago
Shell Go
MIT License Apache License 2.0
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acme-companion

Posts with mentions or reviews of acme-companion. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-10.
  • Wireguard (docker-compose) has stopped being able to connect to the internet.
    2 projects | /r/WireGuard | 10 Jul 2023
    My hunch is that because I decided to include the acme-companion image in this nginx setup, that maybe it has something to do with the SSL certs? The only other thing I could think of is that I had to combine the networks in order for nginx-proxy and Sonarr both to be able to see my transmission instance via:
  • Add https to docker app
    2 projects | /r/docker | 24 Jun 2023
    Probably want acme with nginx https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion
  • Beginner questions about deploying node.js app on Beanstalk
    2 projects | /r/aws | 19 May 2023
    setting up letsencrypt with nginx-proxy and acme-companion
  • Further investigating 403 – access forbidden by rule
    2 projects | /r/nginx | 20 Mar 2023
    I'm experiencing a weird situation, and am not sure how to go about finding a solution. I am running the nginx-proxy container (https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy) together with the acme-companion container (https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion) to provide https connections to all my different applications under different subdomains on the same host (currently, for testing purposes: only two other nginx containers with a plain html page).
  • What is the correct way to have my webapp in one container and the webserver in another?
    2 projects | /r/docker | 8 Mar 2023
    We use the nginx-proxy docker image with its acme-companion to have an auto configuring SSL reverse proxy, so it's really easy to deploy images (we do it based on a merge PR into protected release branches).
  • dockerfile for httpd
    2 projects | /r/docker | 30 Dec 2022
    Just use nginx-proxy and the LetsEncrypt companion as reverse proxy to handle TLS/SSL in front of your web server.
  • nginx-proxy-manager abandoned?
    5 projects | /r/selfhosted | 7 Nov 2022
    You can simply use this proxy container which automatically generates nginx config based on envs set in your containers. There is also a companion container which takes care of your certs. https://github.com/nginx-proxy/nginx-proxy https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion
  • Tools for automation and daily tasks
    12 projects | /r/automation | 31 Oct 2022
    https://github.com/nginx-proxy/acme-companion https://github.com/nginx-proxy/docker-gen https://github.com/projectdiscovery/dnsx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/httpx https://github.com/projectdiscovery/mapcidr https://github.com/debauchee/barrier https://github.com/stedolan/jq https://github.com/ddosify/ddosify https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kind https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized https://github.com/motiv-labs/janus
  • Trying to figure out how to update our SSL certificates for a couple of docker webapps using nginx
    2 projects | /r/docker | 4 Oct 2022
    If you use Docker anyway, have a look at nginx-proxy and it's acme companion. When running on the same host, it will automatically find other containers via docker.sock and then route and create Let's Encrypt certificates for the (sub-)domain you add via env.
  • Help for Iran: How to host the signal-tls-proxy for iran behind a nginx
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 26 Sep 2022
    For the signal proxy, they are using nginx and letsencrypt already and the ports 80 and 443. My current setup already involves an nginx proxy as well as a certbot, so how can I host this signal proxy in my infrastructure?

Caddy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Caddy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing acme-companion and Caddy you can also consider the following projects:

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

HAProxy - HAProxy documentation

Nginx - An official read-only mirror of http://hg.nginx.org/nginx/ which is updated hourly. Pull requests on GitHub cannot be accepted and will be automatically closed. The proper way to submit changes to nginx is via the nginx development mailing list, see http://nginx.org/en/docs/contributing_changes.html

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

RoadRunner - 🤯 High-performance PHP application server, process manager written in Go and powered with plugins

Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache

docker-swag - Nginx webserver and reverse proxy with php support and a built-in Certbot (Let's Encrypt) client. It also contains fail2ban for intrusion prevention.

docker-compose-letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion - Automated docker nginx proxy integrated with letsencrypt. [Moved to: https://github.com/evertramos/nginx-proxy-automation]

caddy-docker-proxy - Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker

nginx-proxy - Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen

Nginx Proxy Manager - Docker container for managing Nginx proxy hosts with a simple, powerful interface

Docker Compose - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker