xuwang/docker-caddy

Dockerize caddy

Docker Example - An Automatic HTTPS web with Caddy

Caddy is the HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS. Github stars 11,994.

Caddy + Docker = Super fast static web site that go anywhere.

Prerequisites

Add test site name to /etc/hosts or your DNS server

E.g. the test site FQDN is docker-example.example.com

$ sudo echo "127.0.0.1 docker-example.example.com" >> /etc/hosts

Optional GCP Auth

If you want try out Automatic HTTPS with Google Cloud DNS Challenge, you need to have gcloud installed.

And you must have admin rights on a managed DNS Zone in your GCP Project defined in envs. To get the GCP credentials:

$ gcloud auth login

Build the caddy docker image

$ make build

If all you wanted to do is to build the image, you can tag the image and publish it to your registry.

$ docker tag caddy:latest <my-caddy>
$ docker push <registry URI>

Bring web server it up

$ make web

Working on the website source

Then edit html files in srv/site/public and reload page on the brower.

Shut it down

$ make down