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Restart one container only when its certificate renews

Running Caddy certificate-only for one domain, then restarting only its consumer container on renewal, is awkward and the restart hook is unreliable.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 14 July 2026 · last reported 20 July 2026

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Operators who run Caddy in Docker want it to issue certificates for a service that is not proxied, such as a chat server, and to restart just that container after each renewal.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

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  • Related problems.

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