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

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

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

cromka wrote: post #116
k__ wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it too, but gave up quickly. If you don't have issues with CLI tools, you're better off with stuff like Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet, Nix, Guix, etc. Deploy LGTM or SigNoz alongside your apps and you're good to go.

Nix is used for app deployments?

Nothing stops people from using it that way.

I would kind of prefer appimages / flatpak's though ?

I think appimages are the best way if we can get aside from the fact of some limitiations it has if I remember like if you build the project on X then code can only run on linux versions on Y where there is some relation b/w X and Y , I know its very vague... It was some reddit post.

Man , I have watched / read so many posts that I only vaguely remember things but I really don't have exact bookmarks and it just feels so repetitive and kind of humiliating to say these again and again....

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

cromka wrote: post #116
k__ wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I tried it too, but gave up quickly. If you don't have issues with CLI tools, you're better off with stuff like Ansible, Salt, Chef, Puppet, Nix, Guix, etc. Deploy LGTM or SigNoz alongside your apps and you're good to go.

Nix is used for app deployments?

If you are using Nixpacks, then yes it is used to build you docker image.

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

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Post by Imustaskforhelp »

airstrike wrote: post #113
zachlatta wrote: post #94

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FYI that I did a bounty for database SSL connections and they implemented it, so they should be live now!

There's no "that" after FYI. It's "For your information, " Sorry, but FYI this is my biggest pet peeve of all time.

Understandable , have a nice day.

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

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Post by pier25 »

samfundev wrote: post #100
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…

Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...

Is this new? I tested it back in October 2024 and it didn't work.

I set up an app that would take a couple of seconds to return a request. Started a long benchmark and did a deploy. Got some errors right after deploying because the pending requests were killed.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

cromka wrote: post #117
samfundev wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...

It seems to be killing all remaining connections, as it just stops old container when new is deemed healthy. So not completely downtime by definition, is it?

It is only Docker Compose that has some limitations, but for all other types of applications it is currently zero downtime, but improvements are planned in this area.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

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…

This is true for most alternatives, but not for Coolify.

I am the second maintainer of Coolify and Andras and I maintain most of Core Coolify while we have 4 other maintainers helping with support and the docs and a few other maintainers who help with CLI and some other stuff.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

andrasbacsai wrote: post #115

Hey, the dev behind Coolify here. We are working on a new UI, and to be even more mature, and a lot of other things, because now I am not doing this alone as I used to for years.

Yes, lots of exciting stuff coming soon.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

gargan wrote: post #83
nikodunk wrote: post #56

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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…

"Move them to a separate server" - is that easy to do using Coolify?

Yes, you can move or clone to a separate server with a single click. Only volumes are not currently supported when doing this.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

amclennon wrote: post #106

I have been super happy using Coolify to self host automatic preview branches from pull requests. I'm not sure if it's necessarily mature enough for me to trust it with production loads, but it's extremely easy to get started with the Github integration and wildcard subdomains

Thanks for using it, there will be many more features to make it even more production ready and stable in the future.

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

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Post by peaklabs-dev »

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.

We are currently investigating and planning something for scaling, so stay tuned, it may happen soon.
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