Caddy 2 is a powerful, enterprise-ready, open source web server with automatic HTTPS written in Go.

Caddy is the only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default.

Caddy is both a flexible, efficient static file server and a powerful, scalable reverse proxy.

It has already over 100 million downloads in Docker Hub and is one of the modern and trending webservers.

It is super easy to configure and to use and a good alternative to apache and nginx.

With this course I enable you to get started with caddy in less than 2 hours. During that time, you will already get your website running properly with ssl.

This course teaches you on how to use caddy in various environments:

• In the cloud

• On your local computer or server

• Containerized in Docker

You will learn on how to use and configure caddy:

• Install caddy

• Encrypt with SSL

• Compression with GZIP

• Routing and using subdomains

• Loadbalancing and failover

• Troubleshooting

The course contains many hands on labs which you can use with my additionally created GitHub repository.

Ever lab links in its resources to the configs I've uploaded for you.

If there are question, you can contact me as an instructor via chat, and I will support you in case you have questions.

The course is set up for beginners, that never have used webservers, nevertheless, a bit of linux knowledge is helpfull.