caddy-l4 VS ingress-nginx

Compare caddy-l4 vs ingress-nginx and see what are their differences.

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caddy-l4 ingress-nginx
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7.0 9.6
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caddy-l4

Posts with mentions or reviews of caddy-l4. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-05-05.
  • Take a look at traefik, even if you don't use containers
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 May 2024
  • Caddylike solution for SSH/SFTP
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 18 May 2023
    https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4 and https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh can do SSH forwarding.
  • Minecraft server with VPS as a proxy
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Mar 2023
    3) Use a L4 TCP/UDP plugin for caddy. https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4
  • Nginx Reverse Proxy game hosting
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 9 Jan 2023
    Wireguard gives my service servers their own internal IP for the gateway to reference (nothing fancy done with it, no iptables modifications like you may see on other guides), and I use NGINX for the game server proxying, specifically linuxserver's nginx container. I love Caddy, but even with caddy-l4 I couldn't get it working right for Valheim (and thus UDP), but NGINX worked real quick.
  • Help routing packets from a static public ip to tailscale device
    1 project | /r/Tailscale | 17 Nov 2022
  • Accessing an IP camera stream through caddy
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 20 Oct 2022
    This may help: https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4
  • The Future of Nginx: Getting Back to Our Open Source Roots
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Aug 2022
    Well, that's a bit off-topic from the parent comment, which was more about the Caddyfile supporting complex config (versus the underlying JSON config) and not really "complex usecases".

    But that said, from a quick Google search... was this an RTMP stream? If so, I suppose you'd want to use https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4 which is a plugin for Caddy that lets you do TCP-layer things. Caddy's standard distribution just ships an HTTP server (plus TLS and PKI, etc), which is layer-7

    You might be able to use caddy-l4's "tee" handler to pipe into multiple "proxy" handlers. But I'm not sure anyone's tried this yet, I had no idea people did this sort of thing. I'd be interested to hear if it does work though.

  • Brand new to this, have a few questions about DDNS, reverse proxies, etc
    2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 18 Jun 2022
    If you are only having your services accessible via LAN, HTTPS isn't totally necessary, but I would still recommend it. I think a reverse proxy will be easier than your described method. Just set it to listen to 443 and have all of your other services on random ports being proxied from the reverse proxy. If you want HTTPS from your reverse proxy to your services, most reverse proxies will have this kind of feature. Here is the caddy L4 raw TCP stream module: https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4
  • Alternative to SRV record?
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 23 May 2022
    I had a similar problem a while back and found this project (Caddy-L4). It had no releases or examples on how to build it so I forked it and added some Docker stuff.
  • Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2022
    "Caddy L4" aka "Project Conncept" might be what you're looking for:

    https://github.com/mholt/caddy-l4

    "Project Conncept is an experimental layer 4 app for Caddy. It facilitates composable handling of raw TCP/UDP connections based on properties of the connection or the beginning of the stream."

ingress-nginx

Posts with mentions or reviews of ingress-nginx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing caddy-l4 and ingress-nginx you can also consider the following projects:

gateway-api - Repository for the next iteration of composite service (e.g. Ingress) and load balancing APIs.

traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy

authelia - The Single Sign-On Multi-Factor portal for web apps

emissary - open source Kubernetes-native API gateway for microservices built on the Envoy Proxy

ingress - WIP Caddy 2 ingress controller for Kubernetes

metallb - A network load-balancer implementation for Kubernetes using standard routing protocols

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

cilium-cli - CLI to install, manage & troubleshoot Kubernetes clusters running Cilium

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

haproxy-ingress - HAProxy Ingress

caddy-ssh - Caddy-SSH is a general-purpose, extensible, modular, memory-safe SSH server built in Go [Moved to: https://github.com/kadeessh/kadeessh]

application-gateway-kubernetes-ingress - This is an ingress controller that can be run on Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) to allow an Azure Application Gateway to act as the ingress for an AKS cluster.