I LOVE TLS

In the world of web infrastructure, what starts as a simple goal can often lead you down a fascinating rabbit hole of history, philosophy, and clever engineering. This is the story of our journey to build a simple, single-purpose, open-source CDN for changelog.com and the one major hurdle that stood in our way: Varnish, our HTTP caching layer of choice, doesn't support TLS backends. Enter Nabeel Sulieman, a shipit.show guest, who had previously introduced us to KCert, a simpler alternative to cert-manager. We knew if anyone could help us solve this TLS conundrum, it was him. After a couple of false starts, we finally recorded the final solution. As Nabeel aptly put it: Third time is the charm. 🍿 This entire conversation is available to Make it Work members as full videos served from the CDN, and also a Jellyfin media server: makeitwork.tv/i-love-tls 👈 Scroll to the bottom of the page for CDN & media server info LINKS 🐙 github.com/thechangelog/pipely pull-request #8 🐙 github.com/nabsul/tls-exterminator  👀 Varnish - Why no SSL? 🚲 PHKs Bikeshed 🏡 bikeshed.org EPISODE CHAPTERS (00:00) - How this started (02:05) - What makes TLS & SSL interesting for you? (05:58) - Disabling issues & pull requests (08:19) - What is Pipely? (14:03) - Why no SSL? (in Varnish) (15:36) - Who is Poul-Henning Kamp? (17:30) - The Bikeshed (19:46) - Pipely pull request #8 (23:56) - Dagger instead of Docker (29:41) - pipely Dagger module (36:52) - What is saswqatch? (40:44) - ghcr.io/gerhard/sysadmin (43:45) - Let's benchmark! (51:52) - What happens next? (01:00:17) - Wrap-up