miniblog.

Caddy is really growing on me. It's nice having a web proxy that includes letsencrypt functionality without any additional configuration. I've tended to use nginx with a separate letsencrypt setup for projects before, and it's much more awkward.

For my personal server, I deploy services with docker and update with watchtower. It works OK, but I'd love to have a proper configuration as code approach. I want a git commit to change a file that says which version should be live, and then CI should deploy that.

I'm trying out Podman as an alternative to Docker, and it seems pretty nice. I like the separation of tools (e.g. running containers is separate from building images), and there's less hassle with user privileges. It even supports the same images! The Docker daemon is really convenient for deployment though. It's less work than writing a systemd configuration.