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Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by kevinak »

federalfarmer wrote: post #18
kevinak wrote: post #3

Coolify is awesome! We use it for lots of things at Svelte Society. From self-hosting marketing and analytics to running our own Nextcloud instance as well as a bunch of other stuff.

I've missed the Vercel/Coolify hype train, the last "seamless" deployment platform I touched was Heroku. What makes Coolify so useful? It's never taken me more than 30 minutes to deploy self-hosted tools, from Nextcloud to Prosody, even without Docker. These "serverless" platforms certainly aren't any cheaper than bare metal and are at best marginally quicker to deploy, so what makes Coolify so useful to you? Is it e…

It's not really hard to deploy these things in isolation but Coolify makes it very easy to do it all on the same server. From Git integration with CI/CD in just a few clicks to just random services that you might need for business purposes (Email marketing, Analytics, Nextcloud).

30 minutes honestly sounds like a long time compared to the time it takes to do this with a PaaS.

Some other stuff that's nice: multiple environments (staging, production, you name it), Multiple deploy targets if you're running many servers (via Docker Swarm), support for Teams (in case you need multiple people to handle something, update environment variables, etc). There's lots.

Maybe you should give it a whirl? I don't know your exact use-cases

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by federalfarmer »

b_shulha wrote: post #26
federalfarmer wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software. High power level take. The Stallman ethos of Free Software simply hasn't played out the way idealists thought it would. Instead, libraries are standardized by megacorps to farm employees inculcated into their design patterns and get GitHub clout chasers to fix bugs for free. Open source really needs something like the CC-BY-NC-ND* lice…

There is a Fair Source model, driven by Sentry: https://fair.io

Didn't know about this, glad to know others are seeing a similar problem! I've definitely tried to monetize self-hosted projects that could benefit from Fair Core in particular.

The flexibility of the licensing text is also nice as it'd be very easy to modify the standard "two years to open source" timetable or drop in a different license type like GPL:

https://github.com/keygen-sh/fcl.dev/blob/master/FCL-1.0-MIT...

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by trollbridge »

federalfarmer wrote: post #20
meiraleal wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? Corporations ruining open source is the norm in 2024, indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software.

>indie devs hiding their source code from corps takeover is the new free software. High power level take. The Stallman ethos of Free Software simply hasn't played out the way idealists thought it would. Instead, libraries are standardized by megacorps to farm employees inculcated into their design patterns and get GitHub clout chasers to fix bugs for free. Open source really needs something like the CC-BY-NC-ND* lice…

AGPL3 gets somewhat near this; if someone wants to profit in the cloud from it, they have to share all changes they make (and in theory then anyone else could go run a for profit or free service in the cloud or locally with the same new code).

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by XCSme »

ajkjk wrote: post #6

I feel like it's only possible to get excited about software anymore if it's open source and not in the control of some vendor. Not because I care a lot about the ideology of free software, it's just because the way corporations take over and ruin/sell out everything has been so demoralizing.

Open-source is rarely sustainable, I use many open-source projects, and I support/sponsor them when possible, but many simply don't survive long and the builder loses interested.

With Coolify it's different, because many companies are willing to sponsor the project, so it's already sustainable.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by XCSme »

jaredlunde wrote: post #19

Shameless plug but I built https://flexstack.com for similar reasons. I wanted a Render/Vercel alternative on my own AWS account and all of the other options either didn't go far enough or were way too expensive for someone bootstrapping.

Does your platforms support 1-Click (premade) apps?

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by XCSme »

I was using https://caprover.com but I'm slowly migrating all services to Coolify.

CapRover still has a few things that it does better (better custom-domain support, more 1-click apps, integrated NetData monitoring, etc.), but overall Coolify is a lot more beginner-friendly and simpler to use.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by jaredlunde »

XCSme wrote: post #35
jaredlunde wrote: post #19

Shameless plug but I built https://flexstack.com for similar reasons. I wanted a Render/Vercel alternative on my own AWS account and all of the other options either didn't go far enough or were way too expensive for someone bootstrapping.

Does your platforms support 1-Click (premade) apps?

Something like this? https://vercel.com/templates

Not at the moment unfortunately. I understand it's more friction, but you can just clone any of those repos and deploy them to FlexStack in 1-click by linking your GitHub account.

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by XCSme »

jaredlunde wrote: post #37
XCSme wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does your platforms support 1-Click (premade) apps?

Something like this? https://vercel.com/templates Not at the moment unfortunately. I understand it's more friction, but you can just clone any of those repos and deploy them to FlexStack in 1-click by linking your GitHub account.

No, something like Coolify apps: https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.snag.gy/iyzfMX.jpg

Re: Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal

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Post by jaredlunde »

XCSme wrote: post #38
jaredlunde wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Something like this? https://vercel.com/templates Not at the moment unfortunately. I understand it's more friction, but you can just clone any of those repos and deploy them to FlexStack in 1-click by linking your GitHub account.

No, something like Coolify apps: https://s3.amazonaws.com/i.snag.gy/iyzfMX.jpg

Thanks for clarifying. Of those you can 1-click deploy Git-based and Docker-based apps except Docker Compose, since containers are deployed to an ECS cluster. Self-hosted databases are out of scope for what we're trying to do. We're focused instead on making it dead simple to integrate with AWS-managed resources (via resource RBAC, network rules).
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