Or just use yay instead

Ah, that’s fair. Their documentation is fully up to date now, but imo their example configs suck for beginners.

I will note that anything that can be done in the compose file can be done as a config file instead, with the exception of traefik.enabled=true if you are using a container whitelist instead of a blacklist.

It took me ages to set up, but i now have auto configuration of 95% of containers that need to be reverse proxied, without binding ports (just use the ‘expose’ option instead of ‘ports’ in docker compose).

But yes, all the guides and example configs insisting on using container labels instead of the dynamic config files make it feel way more bloated and confusing than needed.

I am curious, what are the advantages of caddy over traefik?

Upvoted for the striked out portion

That is fair, though my comment was more because everyone I have talked to IRL that knows about mastodon thinks its a dead platform, because people they know that use bluesky have told them as much.

Its shocking how many people want to push the “mastodon is a dead platform, bluesky is the future”.