Caddy is a cross-platform web server that serves web content to clients. Caddy is an open-source project that written in Go programming language and available under the Apache License 2.0.
This tutorial explains how to install Caddy inside a Docker container in the Linux. Commands have been tested on Ubuntu.
Prepare environment
Make sure you have installed Docker in your system. If you are using Ubuntu, installation instructions can be found in the post.
Install Caddy
- Host network
Run the following command to create a container for Caddy that uses host network:
docker run -d --name=caddy --restart=always --network=host \
-v /var/www:/usr/share/caddy \
-v /opt/caddy/data:/data \
-v /opt/caddy/config:/config \
caddy- User-defined bridge network
User-defined bridge network can be used for listening on different port. By default, Caddy service is listening on port 80. It can be changed with -p option.
docker network create app-netdocker run -d --name=caddy --restart=always --network=app-net \
-p 8080:80 \
-v /var/www:/usr/share/caddy \
-v /opt/caddy/data:/data \
-v /opt/caddy/config:/config \
caddyTesting Caddy
Create simple index.html for testing:
echo '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title>Title</title></head><body>Hello world</body></html>' | sudo tee /var/www/index.htmlOpen a web browser and go to http://<IP_ADDRESS>, where <IP_ADDRESS> is the IP address of the system. You will see a recently created page.
Uninstall Caddy
To completely remove the Caddy, remove its container:
docker rm --force caddyRemove Caddy image:
docker rmi caddyYou can also remove Caddy web data and related directories:
sudo rm -rf /var/wwwsudo rm -rf /opt/caddyIf a user-defined bridge network was created, you can delete it as follows:
docker network rm app-net
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