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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 vinibrito »

matus_congrady wrote: post #59
elorm wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s very much on-topic. You’re just shilling your own product under the thread of a similar product, nothing to be ashamed off chief. Shill away.

It's completely true, and I AM ashamed for doing it. But it's a terrible time to be a PaaS founder, since there are very few new projects being started at the moment. Without exaggeration, I think there are somewhere between 10% and 20% of new projects being started (which is the only point people will actually choose to use our platform) compared to 2022. Hard times, lower standards. Sorry. We've got ~40 website vis…

Well, what did you see that gave you that impression? About less new projects being started. This got me super curious.

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

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Post by ofrzeta »

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.

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

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

Perhaps a bit tangential on the subject, but in the same spirit - does anyone know of an open source self-hostable alternative to runpod/vast for managing your GPUs? Our small team has some bare metal servers and I'd like to try something light to manage / reserve instances w/ the convenience of a webui and a place where the team can see at a glance who is using what, and eventually some notes on how long each deployment is likely to take (self filled ofc).

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

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Post by matus_congrady »

vinibrito wrote: post #61
matus_congrady wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's completely true, and I AM ashamed for doing it. But it's a terrible time to be a PaaS founder, since there are very few new projects being started at the moment. Without exaggeration, I think there are somewhere between 10% and 20% of new projects being started (which is the only point people will actually choose to use our platform) compared to 2022. Hard times, lower standards. Sorry. We've got ~40 website vis…

Well, what did you see that gave you that impression? About less new projects being started. This got me super curious.

3 things:

- Situation on the SWE hiring market. It's way harder to find a job.

- I personally know people from SW dev agencies that are all saying its very hard to find an opportunity (project) to work on.

- In fact, I'm 99% convinced that we're in a recession, even though its not official. Companies are cutting costs left and right. And think about it this way. When a company invests in a software, it's an investment for them, which will eventually pay for itself in a few years. But if the company is struggling to just stay alive, investments are the first thing they cut.

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

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Post by IgorPartola »

msy wrote: post #54
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…

Kamal has a lot of rough edges (still can’t support custom certs for example) but is still a far more mature solution. It does less but better.

Kamal proxy is good enough to sit behind a load balancer. I would not let it be what a client sees. There are some major features missing and it just hasn’t been battle tested enough to be subjected to DDoS type traffic, etc.

Overall, I do like the Kamal approach which basically boils down to the fact that instead of a complicated cluster orchestration system the developers decide which machines code runs on.

Once it has real support for doing DB migrations as a part of its deploys, a proxy that is less magical and more feature rich, and its CLI fixes some poorly documented and frankly somewhat annoying issues it will be a real workhorse.

I am also curious about Dokku + k3s. I have used Dokku for a long time but only on a single host.

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

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Post by breadislove »

NitpickLawyer wrote: post #63

Perhaps a bit tangential on the subject, but in the same spirit - does anyone know of an open source self-hostable alternative to runpod/vast for managing your GPUs? Our small team has some bare metal servers and I'd like to try something light to manage / reserve instances w/ the convenience of a webui and a place where the team can see at a glance who is using what, and eventually some notes on how long each deploy…

we are using claudie(.io) together with ray. but we put a lot time into the infrastructure but we managed to cut our cost for a factor of 20x by doing this.

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

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Post by theanonymousone »

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?

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

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Post by theanonymousone »

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 works the same way, yet.

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

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Post by SalariedSlave »

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..
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