Discussion: Which reverse proxy is the best?

• caddy-l4

  20 765 7.2 Go

  Layer 4 (TCP/UDP) app for Caddy

Vanilla Caddy only ships with an HTTP server (i.e. TCP, and UDP for HTTP3) but you can use the caddy-l4 plugin to proxy any kind of traffic.

• caddy-docker-proxy

  54 2,358 7.4 Go

  Caddy as a reverse proxy for Docker

https://github.com/lucaslorentz/caddy-docker-proxy Caddy proxy as Docker container. You need nothing else. Not even Caddy native.

• WorkOS

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• Nginx Proxy Manager

  651 19,636 8.8 JavaScript

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

  

Then switched to Nginx Proxy Manager. It was sleek as hell and it was excellent - until I had to renew a cert. A broken dependency crashed NPM for a couple hours for me.

• docker-swag

  295 2,530 9.2 Dockerfile

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

  

But about a year ago, I started migrating a lot of my services over to containers. SWAG was a godsend. It did everything I had set up Nginx to do on a VM, but it was even easier to set up and maintain. I have had 0 problems forwarding to VMs or containers with SWAG. 😎

• ingress-nginx

  203 16,638 9.6 Go

  Ingress-NGINX Controller for Kubernetes

  

nginix-ingress

• cert-manager

  101 11,457 9.8 Go

  Automatically provision and manage TLS certificates in Kubernetes

  

I don't think OP is in a k8s environment, but if they were this would be my pick too. Also throw in cert-manager

• reproxy

  5 1,185 7.3 Go

  Simple edge server / reverse proxy

reProxy

• InfluxDB

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• caddy-auth-portal

  15 668 9.0 Go

  Discontinued Authentication Plugin for Caddy v2 implementing Form-Based, Basic, Local, LDAP, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 (Github, Google, Facebook, Okta, etc.), SAML Authentication. MFA with App Authenticators and Yubico.

Usually with this plugin: https://github.com/greenpau/caddy-auth-portal

• Caddy

  402 53,718 9.5 Go

  Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

  

I found this: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/2786 from 2019 and really appreciate the 180 degree turn. My question is, is it true? Anyone know of a definitive source or have experience with the commercial license?

• nginx-proxy

  102 18,030 8.8 Python

  Automated nginx proxy for Docker containers using docker-gen

  

• acme-companion

  32 7,261 7.6 Shell

  Automated ACME SSL certificate generation for nginx-proxy

  

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