#What is Coolify?

Coolify is a self-hostable, full-featured platform aimed at making deployments, database management, and service hosting as easy as cloud providers—without vendor lock-in. You install it on your server (VPS, bare metal, or Raspberry Pi), and it handles reverse proxy, SSL, Git-driven deployments, databases, and more.

#Features ⚡️

• Deploy any Docker containers with support for Node, React, Vue, Next, Astro, PHP, Rust, static sites, and more.

• One-click services: MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, CouchDB, WordPress, Ghost, Plausible, and 100+ additional apps.

• CI/CD via Git: Auto-deploy commits and PRs from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket/Gitea.

• SSL certs via Let’s Encrypt for custom domains automatically.

• Backups: Automatic DB backups to S3-compatible storage.

• Real-time browser terminal & process logs.

• Team collaboration: Multi-user support with roles and permissions.

• Monitoring & alerts: Basic resource metrics, disk and CPU alerts, Discord/Telegram/email notifications.

• Extensible API & webhook support for automation.

#Pros and Cons

#✅ Pros

• True open-source: All core features free forever, no hidden paywalls.

• Complete self-hosting: Full control over data, infrastructure, and costs.

• Cloud-like convenience: Git-based CI/CD, SSL, one-click services − without vendor lock-in.

• Credit-card-free: Deploy to any Docker host via SSH (VPS, Pi, local machine).

• Team & PR workflow: Built-in collaboration and preview deployments.

#⚠️ Cons

• Your responsibility: Server security/patching on you.

• Limited auto-scaling: No Kubernetes support yet; single-server setups.

• Steeper self-host learning curve: More setup than cloud hosts.

• Basic free UI metrics: Advanced dashboards/tools require extra setup.

#🧩 Included Components – Templates

Coolify organizes deployments via:

• Projects & Environments, where each environment holds:

  • App resources (Git repo or Docker).

  • Databases (PostgreSQL, Redis, MySQL, CouchDB, MongoDB).

  • Other services (WordPress, Ghost, analytics, etc.)

  • Proxy rules and custom domains.

#💵 Pricing

• Open-source self-hosted: Free under Apache-2.0 license

• Paid hosted: Cloud version offers managed hosting, email alerts, SLA, and support starting around $5/month.

#🧰 Integrations

• Git platforms: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gitea.

• Docker support: localhost Docker or remote Docker Engine, Docker Compose; Kubernetes planned.

• Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, DragonFly, KeyDB, Clickhouse.

• Reverse proxies: Built-in Caddy or Traefik with wildcard SSL.

• Monitoring & Alerts: Basic metrics and third-party notifications.

• API & Webhooks: Automate via API and CI/CD tools.