Reverse proxy deep dive (2024)(startwithawhy.com) |
Reverse proxy deep dive (2024)(startwithawhy.com) |
I definitely prefer Caddy in my experience, so far.
The entire config for each vhost is 3 lines, including the domain definition and closing brace - and that includes TLS!
I switched to Traefik for a few reasons: labels configuration (there is a parallel version of caddy maintained by somebody else that does it), how middleware are implemented and the dynamic capacities of Traefik.
Caddy is excellent, a brilliant piece of tech. For edge routing Traefik is worth at least considering.
Layer 4 proxies are a very specific sometimes food that most people should actively avoid until they need it because of the tradeoffs.
DSR is layer 4, and not in scope of this post.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxy_server#Forward_proxy_vs....
Meta request: can we change the URL to the original source? This isn’t quite blogspam (since it’s the same author reposting the same piece onto Medium) but Medium is annoying enough that I’d still rather resolve to the original source
https://blog.envoyproxy.io/introduction-to-modern-network-lo...
Layer 4 to 7 is useful in this case, as layer 4 involves forging tcp/udp packets, which is vastly different than say a http level reverse proxy.
Medium is terrible.
There's a separate term for the bits of the OSI model that are actually relevant; it's called the IETF model.