NGINX Unit VS caddy-docker-proxy

Nginx Unit application server.

This is great to read! Thanks for all the great input!

I check the comments next week and make sure to address the issues / ideas mentioned. If you don’t mind feel free to drop a comment here as well with your ideas / needs. https://github.com/nginx/unit/issues/945

I will work on a compression between Nginx and Unit to close this gap in our documentation.

You could try running h5ai with NGINX UNIT.

nginx, but nginx-unit looks very interesting. I might switch a few docker containers to use it before trying to use it natively.

unix:/filesocketheadache (problems) verses unix:@abstractsocketmagic (problem solved)

Try Nginx Unit to get away from the php-fpm complexity. It runs on http by default so it's super easy to spin up and access by itself (no need for an extra http server) or behind another http gateway as a simple proxy.

Caddy via Caddy Docker Proxy (network).

https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

It handles the routing to multiple dockerized projects on one server, by scanning docker compose files for labels and automatically setting up the required caddy configuration.

My go to is always this instead:

https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

Single label to a docker container and with correct DNS you’ll have an automatically managed certificate right away.

I have had a great experience with using this: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

It combines caddy with docker-compose labels, making it super easy to spin up new projects that can immediately be exposed.

If you want a slightly heavier but more robust solution, caddy-docker-proxy[0] is a plugin that listens to the Docker socket and automatically updates the Caddy configuration based on Docker labels you add to containers.

I.e. it makes Caddy act a bit more like Traefik. Most of the time, you'll just add the label `caddy.reverse_proxy={{upstreams http 8080}}` to your containers and the plugin will regenerate Caddy's configuration whenever the container is modified.

[0] https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

I disagree, Caddy works great in Docker. See https://caddyserver.com/docs/running#docker-compose, and CDP is a project that autoconfigures Caddy from labels https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy. Regarding plugins, it's super simple to write a Dockerfile to add plugins, we ship a builder image variant that can be used to compile in any plugins you want.

````

This way, Caddy will buffer the request and give 30 seconds for your new service to get online when you're deploying a new version.

Ideally, during deployment of a new version the new version should go live and healthy before caddy starts using it (and kills the old container). I've looked at https://github.com/Wowu/docker-rollout and https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy but haven't had time to prioritize it yet.

Docker labels support is available via a plugin https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy

Or caddy-docker-proxy: https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy