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Caddy vs Traefik: What are the differences?
What is Caddy? The HTTP/2 Web Server with Automatic HTTPS. Caddy is a production-ready open-source web server that is fast, easy to use, and makes you more productive. HTTP/2 and HTTPS by default.
What is Traefik? Load Balancer for Microservices. Træfɪk is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer made to deploy microservices with ease. It supports several backends (Docker, Swarm, Mesos/Marathon, Kubernetes, Consul, Etcd, Zookeeper, BoltDB, Rest API, file...) to manage its configuration automatically and dynamically.
Caddy belongs to "Web Servers" category of the tech stack, while Traefik can be primarily classified under "Load Balancer / Reverse Proxy".
"Easy HTTP/2 Server Push" is the top reason why over 2 developers like Caddy, while over 10 developers mention "Kubernetes integration" as the leading cause for choosing Traefik.
Caddy and Traefik are both open source tools. Traefik with 23.7K GitHub stars and 2.48K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Caddy with 23.2K GitHub stars and 1.84K GitHub forks.
According to the StackShare community, Traefik has a broader approval, being mentioned in 70 company stacks & 143 developers stacks; compared to Caddy, which is listed in 23 company stacks and 34 developer stacks.
Pros of Caddy
- Easy HTTP/2 Server Push6
- Sane config file syntax6
- Builtin HTTPS4
- Letsencrypt support2
- Runtime config API2
Pros of Traefik
- Kubernetes integration20
- Watch service discovery updates18
- Letsencrypt support14
- Swarm integration13
- Several backends12
- Ready-to-use dashboard6
- Easy setup4
- Rancher integration4
- Mesos integration1
- Mantl integration1
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Cons of Caddy
- New kid3
Cons of Traefik
- Not very performant (fast)7
- Complicated setup7
