certgen
A dead simple tool to generate self signed certificates for MinIO TLS deployments (by minio)
Caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS (by caddyserver)
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3.7 | 9.4 | |
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Go | Go | |
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
certgen
Posts with mentions or reviews of certgen.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-18.
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Serious certificate issues
Assuming the cert is good here, it can be a proxy issue as well but I have not seen this error in a long time. If you are using a proxy, can you try without? Otherwise, can you temporarily generate a cert with https://github.com/minio/certgen and see if you still see the issue?
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Need help adding TLS certificates to a tenant in a k3s cluster
So far I have seen some minio documentation (1, 2, ) about how to add the certificates correctly but I haven't been able to set it up correctly :-(
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Wierdness with minio and self signed cert
You can also check out https://github.com/minio/certgen, `certgen -host "*"` will give you a wild card cert you can use to ensure there is nothing wrong with the SAN that is being presented.
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 2025-04-14.
- Encrypted ClientHello with Caddy
- Caddy v2.10
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Simple Web Server
It looks nice and friendly, but for developers I can recommend exploring caddy[1] or nginx[2]. It's a useful technology to have worked with, even if they're ultimately only used for proxying analytics.
[1] https://caddyserver.com/
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Adventures in Homelabbing: From Cloud Obsession to Self-Hosted Shenanigans
I began to self-host a Minecraft server using Crafty Controller, an Excalidraw instance, Docmost to replace Notion, Plane to replace Jira, and Penpot to replace Figma. To be able to access them from the internet, I used Nginx Proxy Manager to set up reverse proxies with SSL. You can use Traefik or Caddy instead, but I enjoyed the ease-of-use of NPM. For a dashboard solution, I started with Homarr, but later switched to Homepage because I'm apparently incapable of making a decision and sticking with it.
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An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway
This approach offers a level of customizability similar to what xcaddy does for the Caddy server, eliminating the complexities associated with writing Rhai scripts to customize a precompiled binary, as is the case with the Apollo Router.
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The Easiest Way To Use Https In Localhost
Caddy is a server written in Go programming language, known to be easy peasy to configure (Unlike configuring Nginx), and it also includes https by default.
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Self-hosting with Caddy Server And Souin (Caching Module)
Caddy is the ultimate web server anyone should be using. This is true for production as well as for local development. It is very fast, and by default obtains and renews SSL certificates automatically. This is useful for when you want to test certain website feature that is only allowed when they're accessed with HTTPS. You get free TLS for all your subdomains, and it does that in a scalable way.
- Nginx: Try_files Is Evil Too
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The Plan 9 Foundation
Did you happen to look at caddy? It at least used to have some degree of support for plan9: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1093
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5759 :
> When generating a CA cert via caddy and putting that in the trust store, those private keys can also forge certificates for any other domain.
RFC5280 (2008) "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile" > Section 4.2.1.10
What are some alternatives?
When comparing certgen and Caddy you can also consider the following projects:
operator - Simple Kubernetes Operator for MinIO clusters :computer:
HAProxy - HAProxy documentation
longhorn - Cloud-Native distributed storage built on and for Kubernetes
oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
go-formatter - A curated list of awesome Go frameworks, libraries and software
traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy