DNS & Networking Reverse Proxy stable

Caddy

Automatic HTTPS web server and reverse proxy

62.0K stars Since 2020
Website → GitHub

Automatic HTTPS web server and reverse proxy

License
Apache-2.0
Min RAM
128 MB
Min CPUs
1 core
Scaling
single_node
Complexity
beginner
Performance
medium
Self-hostable
✓
K8s native
✕
Offline
✕
Pricing
fully free
Docs quality
good
Vendor lock-in
none

Use cases

  • ✓ Primary: reverse-proxy
  • ✓ Primary: automatic-ssl
  • ✓ Primary: web-serving

Integrates with

Mattermost
Team Chat
Docker (Moby)
Container Runtime
GitLab CE
CI/CD
Nextcloud
File Storage
Kubernetes
Orchestration
n8n
Workflow

Complements

Nextcloud
File Storage
Docker (Moby)
Container Runtime
n8n
Workflow

Compare with alternatives

Conflicts with

Traefik
DNS & Networking
Nginx
DNS & Networking

Replaces / alternatives to

  • Nginx
  • Apache
  • HAProxy

Technical specs

Language
Go
API type
REST
Protocols
HTTP
Deployment
dockerbinary

Community

GitHub stars 62.0K
Contributors 0
Commit frequency weekly
Plugin ecosystem none
Backing Caddy
Funding community

Release

Latest version —
Last release —
Since 2020

Best fit

Team size
solosmallmediumenterprise
Industries
general

Tags

  • web-server
  • reverse-proxy
  • auto-https
  • caddyfile
  • plugins
  • http3
  • api-config