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Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by TechDebtDevin »

theanonymousone wrote: post #68

I have also been using Coolify happily since its early(?) days (mid 2022 IIRC). One big plus for me is that there is nothing to be installed on the client: No CLI, etc. In my specific use case, I switch laptops I work with, so it's a huge advantage that I can just open the UI in the browser and do my work. Of course there is room for improvements in many corners of it, but I couldn't get any of the alternatives to wo…

One alternative that works is an nginx reverese proxy and 10 minutes of configuration :P

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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TechDebtDevin wrote: post #71
theanonymousone wrote: post #68

I have also been using Coolify happily since its early(?) days (mid 2022 IIRC). One big plus for me is that there is nothing to be installed on the client: No CLI, etc. In my specific use case, I switch laptops I work with, so it's a huge advantage that I can just open the UI in the browser and do my work. Of course there is room for improvements in many corners of it, but I couldn't get any of the alternatives to wo…

One alternative that works is an nginx reverese proxy and 10 minutes of configuration :P

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Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by theanonymousone »

TechDebtDevin wrote: post #71
theanonymousone wrote: post #68

I have also been using Coolify happily since its early(?) days (mid 2022 IIRC). One big plus for me is that there is nothing to be installed on the client: No CLI, etc. In my specific use case, I switch laptops I work with, so it's a huge advantage that I can just open the UI in the browser and do my work. Of course there is room for improvements in many corners of it, but I couldn't get any of the alternatives to wo…

One alternative that works is an nginx reverese proxy and 10 minutes of configuration :P

Replacement: I wrote something here and then deleted it. You may also want to rethink about your comment.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by ofrzeta »

SalariedSlave wrote: post #69
ofrzeta wrote: post #62

No idea why there's almost no PaaS solution for Kubernetes. It would be a great platform with some add-ons. I know there's Porter but only on AWS and Azure if I understand correctly. Which is fine for many use cases I guess. Still I want to self-host for dev without huge cost. There's also Korifi which implements the Cloud Foundry API on Kubernetes but it's still in progress and its future might be uncertain.

What about https://syself.com/ ? Haven't used it yet, but I read about in on HN and bookmarked it for future reference..

I hadn't heard about it but it seems just like management for Kubernetes not a layer on top to enable PaaS, although it has managed databases. Also it doesn't seem to be open source. Thanks for the pointer, though.

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by selexin »

theanonymousone wrote: post #67
crudbug wrote: post #24

I was also looking at alternatives - K8S-based - https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero https://github.com/pluralsh/plural DCR-based - https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify https://github.com/dokku/dokku/ https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewh…

What is DCR?

I’m wondering the same thing. Docker Container Registry maybe?

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by o1o1o1 »

pier25 wrote: post #41

Tried it for a bit. Paid one month of the subscription. The dashboard is incredibly clunky and at the time they didn't have SSL for db connections (not sure about now). A lot of stuff you need to know what you're doing like configuring tags for Traefik etc. The deal breaker was it didn't have zero downtime deploys. Any pending request when you update an app is simply killed. I was expecting something like Heroku or V…

Thanks for sharing this. I was thinking of giving it a try, but hearing that zero downtime deployments don't work is a deal breaker for me, which is sad because Coolify looks amazing otherwise.

I do wonder though, why do we even need an alternative to Dokku when it seems to provide everything we need?

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by o1o1o1 »

nikodunk wrote: post #56
amanzi wrote: post #34

I've been using Coolify for about a year now and have been very happy with it. It's really low maintenance, it has built in backups for your apps and databases, decent security by default, and is super easy to use. I log into the underlying VMs once per month to do an apt update/upgrade, and that's about it.

Same here! Been self hosting on hetzner for about a year now, and support the OSS project for $10/month. Love how it can auto-deploy new git commits, deploy Postgres or any database to the same or separate servers, and you can cram as many apps or docker containers onto a single VPS or move them to a separate server when you need to. Finally, little utilities like snapdrop or mosquitto are a button click away. Strong…

Another commenter mentioned that zero downtime deployments are not possible, isn't this a loss in your opinion, or did you find a way to do it using Coolify?

Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative

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Post by o1o1o1 »

whydid wrote: post #27
crudbug wrote: post #24

I was also looking at alternatives - K8S-based - https://github.com/cozystack/cozystack https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero https://github.com/pluralsh/plural DCR-based - https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify https://github.com/dokku/dokku/ https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy https://github.com/swiftwave-org/swiftwave Most of these projects are maintained by a single maintainer; for business critical apps look elsewh…

Because businesses always support their software better than individuals?

He did not say "companies vs individuals", he said "single maintainer", which is obviously a high risk factor to consider IMHO.

I wonder why they all start their own projects instead of putting their heads together. They could achieve so much more and make a bit more money on the side, while each of them would have to spend less time on it. It would also attract risk-averse companies.

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