[cagenut]

In a mirror/reverse of the OPs premise - I always wondered why so many of these open source http reverse proxies sprung up in the container era, like what did they offer that varnish or a vmod to varnish wasn't already doing or capable of? somehow varnish almost completely missed the container era, despite seemingly being the exact type of tool a bunch of teams would go on to create.

[Starlevel004]

Devops guys are mostly incapable of using any service that isn't a) written in Go and b) configured using a YAML-based DSL.

[TNorthover]

Traefik's YAML does a particularly bad job at keeping syntax (such as it is) separate from user-defined labels, I feel.

Very difficult to just look at a file and see which bits are labels for the sake of it, and which bits are direct instructions to builtin features.

[demi56]

> and b) configured using a YAML-based DSL.

Go devops HATE YAML-based DSL we just put it there cause there’s not alternatives, json ?, don’t wanna go there fortunately there’s CUE lang but moving all these project to accept cue isn’t that easy either.

> Devops guys are mostly incapable of using any service that isn't a) written in Go

Lol we basically rewrite it in Go if we’re using it frequently. Most Go projects are just things the founder really wanted for himself

[lmeyerov]

For Caddy, LetsEncrypt: Free TLS in one line without talking to anyone

For Traefik, afaict, something about k8s