"Caddy Essentials"
Unlock the full potential of modern web serving with "Caddy Essentials," your definitive guide to deploying, configuring, and scaling the Caddy web server. This comprehensive book leads readers through every aspect of Caddy's core architecture, from its pioneering modular design and high-efficiency concurrency model to its thriving open-source ecosystem. Whether you're evaluating the benefits of Caddy over NGINX or Apache, or seeking to master cutting-edge features like automated HTTPS, this book offers a clear and comparative foundation.
Covering everything from single-node installations to multi-cloud, clustered deployments, "Caddy Essentials" distills deployment best practices, automation workflows, and OS-level performance tuning for diverse environments. Detailed chapters illuminate the art of configuration, guiding you through the Caddyfile syntax, JSON Admin API, and seamless integration with environment variables and CI/CD pipelines. Explore advanced capabilities including rate limiting, authentication mechanisms, granular access controls, and powerful content delivery optimizations for edge and cloud-native workloads.
Designed for system administrators, DevOps professionals, and enterprise architects, the book includes hands-on tutorials for plugin development, live reloads, observability integrations, and case studies spanning enterprise, IoT, and distributed edge scenarios. Whether migrating legacy stacks or building tomorrow's high-availability systems, "Caddy Essentials" is the practical and forward-looking companion you need for secure, fast, and resilient web infrastructure in the cloud era.