Earlier quoted context omitted.
Heroku has been around for ~17 years at this point. Why do you think it disappears in the next 10?
Because it was acquired by Salesforce.
And that happened 15 years ago
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
#172No 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.
Azure Container Apps?
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#173Been using coolify to host my blog + analytics + a couple personal projects for around 6 months.
Good for 1-click installs that “don’t need” a lot of maintenance, like Ghost, Plausible, etc.
Had some issues with spikes in CPU usage (similar case: https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/issues/3226) Monitoring is not enough but I just go straight to the container im looking for and htop it.
For not 1-click I still sometimes feel like bumping into a brick wall, and go for a standalone docker-compose setup outside of coolify. Coolify is too high-level to debug small Docker intricacies (or maybe it’s that I’m bad with that).
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#174I 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…
Thanks for the links. I didn't know about SwiftWave. I have a page with a comparison table of self-hosted PaaS on my site: https://dbohdan.com/self-hosted-paas . It only covers options that don't use Kubernetes. I have just added SwiftWave.
Thanks for adding this.
The core problem of most of the PaaS is the dependency on Swarm (serious workload can't be run on swarm from my experience, disaster recovery too tough).
Working towards building an orchestrator.
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#175Tried 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?
I had thought Dokku was only for a single host(?) From their docs:
> Dokku is an extensible, open source Platform as a Service that runs on a single server of your choice. [0]
But they have a "pro" version that mentions something about "servers," plural.[1] So maybe that's the difference between regular and pro?
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#176I highly recommend Coolify. I evaluated every option when looking for a Heroku alternative, and Coolify is clearly the best as long as you don’t absolutely require zero downtime deploys. We are hosting over 100 services on it for https://hackclub.com and it’s been great. We’re 3 months in now. The key is to think about it as a GUI on top of Docker, not as a fully managed solution. It’s one of those PHP apps that’s we…
Dokku maintainer here. What about Dokku is not as mature as Coolify? Would love to hear your thoughts on how the project falls flat for your use case.
I love dokku (and Jose is amazing!). I would also love to know what's different.
The only thing I'm unsure of after reading the comments is that coolify can migrate to another server using a GUI. If that's correct, I don't know how to do it with dokku. But given that it is merely a small, secure and REALLY thoughtful shim over docker, I can imagine doing that myself in a few commands.
I absolutely love dokku so I'm biased but willing to learn.
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#177I argue a "self hosted" alternative to "Heroku / Netlify / Vercel" is by definition not an alternative to "Heroku / Netlify / Vercel".
The main selling point of these is deployment, management and application-first approach. Whether you have to first rent a VPS and curl|bash an installation command is not an important detail for many use-cases.
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#178I'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.
Btw, did you know about unattended upgrades? Just curious as the stated reason for the stated reason would become almost unnecessary with that https://wiki.debian.org/UnattendedUpgrades
I didn't know about this, thanks!
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#179Hey, 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.
Thanks. I find coolify very useful.
Re: Coolify: Open-source and self-hostable Heroku / Netlify / Vercel alternative
#180Started using Coolify (self hosted) for ~6months now and I love it !
Works great with most of the stuff I deploy (react SPAs, python/fastapi stuff, hugo). Sure, I can do my proper setup, but tbh I just want to go fast sometimes and Coolify is great for that.
For DBs and cache, didn't test it though, but willing to next time I have a personal project !
Great stuff, thanks for your efforts and keep up the good work !