00:00 Intro 00:56 What can you do with Coolify? 02:09 Coolify minimum specs required 02:59 Create a VPS with Hetzner and Set Up with Cloud Config 06:16 ssh into VPS as root and update / upgrade 07:18 Install Coolify 08:29 Coolify: localhost vs remote server 10:25 Update VPS user passwords 11:51 Set up Coolify https instance domain and https wildcard domain 16:04 Why not Cloudflare? 16:41 Create a firewall and lock down all unused ports 17:47 Update Coolify user password and setup 2fa 18:49 Deploy a static website to Coolify with an https subdomain 20:55 www redirects and custom Caddy configs 25:25 Create dynamic proxy configurations 27:04 Create a basic Next.js project in Coolify 28:09 What is nixpacks? 29:37 Deploy a basic Next.js application with nixpacks 31:38 Create a Github application in Coolify 33:31 Deploy a Next.js app with auto deploy 35:41 Create a postgres database for a t3 application 37:10 Create a Dockerfile to push the db schema to our database 40:35 Create a Dockerfile to push the db schema from a private repo 44:46 Deploy a t3 app 47:10 Set up http basic auth with Caddy 51:01 Upgrade Coolify 52:06 Deploy a git repo with an existing docker compose file 59:26 VPS status dashboards 01:00:56 Deploy a service with docker compose 01:04:13 Deploy supabase and monitor VPS status during deploy 01:07:00 Set up minIO / s3 compatible storage 01:10:42 Configure database backups 01:15:17 Coolify cloud demo 01:18:37 Where and how to get help with Coolify 01:22:22 CJ's opinions and final thoughts about Coolify 01:28:20 Thanks!

Thank you, CJ, for making this video! 💜 (the dev behind Coolify here)

It's crazy how in depth this tutorial was. I can't say thanks enough.

You're one of the best teachers I've ever seen. I swear any other youtuber talking about these topics would lose my attention every 10 seconds, but you, sir, have a special talent.

CJ, wanted to thank you, this has been hands down the best resource for me in setting up coolify and going live for the first time outside of github pages. Really felt the sentiment of your thoughts at the end, for me though as a primarily front end focused dev, coolify has felt like the magic answer to my worries about how intimidating self hosting felt, and not wanting to become reliant on something like vercel hosting, I felt stuck for a long time, so finding coolify and being able to setup my own vps without too much issue, I'm extremely happy. Again thanks to you for walking though so much and providing that extra context or info that docs can't always provide. Great video!

I think this is the best series I've seen in a while. So many opportunities... I've watched some home labs setups but nothing so deep. Thanks a lot for sharing.

Hey CJ and Syntax team, thanks for putting this outstanding video together. It's very thorough and easy to follow. I've set up my Coolify before this video came out and had some difficulties understanding all the different configurations and settings within Coolify. This video shed some light on that and helped me understand how and what I can do with Coolify.

Thanks CJ! Another great video. Also appreciate the opinions at the end. You've covered so much already, but maybe it could be interesting to make a video covering the considerations and best practices when self hosting a production app with 2-3 services (like a service, db and a message queue). This could be like a summary or overview video for the series, tying it together.

I appreciate the opinion section. I use docker, docker-compose, and traefik for my personal server. While watching, i had the urge to get coolify up and running just for that pretty front end. I might still do it. Either way, for people just getting started with these technologies, im jealous that you have something like Coolify. Very cool tool and very informative video.

Haven't finished watching it but I was able to deploy my first app with this tutorial. Thank you so much

Appreciate the opinion section at the end. It's easy to get carried away and just dive straight into using something like this out of ease of use. I agree, in the not to distant future this will be awesome.

This is most comprehensive video on coolify. Thanks ❤

Thank you CJ for your efforts and demonstrating it in a single video. Great work 🎉🎉

This is awesome. You're awesome CJ!

Detail level: 10/10 Enthusiasm: 10/10 Brevity: 10/10 Honesty: 10/10 Thanks a ton for such a great video, @CJ! I have just come across your vids, and I will definitely subscribe for more. Keep it up man!

Can't wait to view this all the way through, this is so useful 👍! You should really have the "Super thanks"-button here on KZfaq. I'm very excited about using Coolify, and everything just feels so smooth, I do find SSL to need a little more documentation, which is why I can't wait to dig deep into this episode ❤!

Brother, this is amazing quality content: I commend you on the quality of the information, the pacing, the depth, conciseness and clarity in your explanations and thought processes. Thank you.

Fantastic summary CJ thanks for taking the time and sprinkling in your Caddy and Docker skills as well!

What an incredibly in--depth video. Wow. I'm stunned.

Coolify is fantastic! I really appreciate this video. I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts on Dokku next, it's such an amazing project. Plus, the person maintaining it, Jose Gonzalez, is super cool too!

These videos + coolify are a game changer. I don't have a reason to use vercel anymore. I'll still use fly, for some very specific elixir/phoenix stuff, but for everyething else: it's gonna be coolify from now on.

Really enjoyed the process, thank you! I rented a VPS just for fun and i don't regret.

hey man, just wanted to say thank you. This video was a big help for me starting out with coolify 👍

I appreciate the honest feedback at the end. You asked for new topics. I would be interested in kubernetes. I've heard good things about it at larger scale, but recently got aware that it's also handy for smaller projects. I like the fact that it's more iac. One thing I found discouraging in this video about coolio, was that everything was "click-ops" and I'm quite bad at remembering things. My dream scenario would be to spin up a vServer at hetzner with sth like terraform to get a one-instance kubernetes cluster and then just deploy the apps with kubernetes tooling all reproducible with code. Wdyt?

Coolify is absolutely good tool. Thank you for making this video. Would love to see more tutorials about Coolify when it got stable version. 😊

This is a very beautiful video, learnt so much for myself and use case for my homelab, thank you so much CJ!

The way you divide the relevant parts into chunks made it more easier to consume even those the video is long. This should be the standard format on how to make tutorial videos.

Thank you. I've only used Railway and Vercel so far, so this video really helped me understand what setting up my own server looks like. Could you set up two servers in a future video to show us an example of how to work with multiple servers and synchronize them with multiple databases?

Wow, this is _exactly_ what I was looking for. Can't wait to try it out. Great tutorial!

Note on firewalls, and maybe this is a "duh." I'm building on my own internal computer, not a cloud-hosted VPS. Using split DNS so I can access internal with domain name and outside access. INTERNALLY, using UFW for firewall, does not actually block the ports that the Docker bits publish as open via IPTables. My internet router also has a firewall and does, of course, block access to any ports into the network that aren't specifically open. Meaning, *internally*, even with UFW only allowing 22, 80, and 443, I can still access 8000 any other port that a container publishes as open. *Externally*, only the ports I open are actually open to that machine. None of this is the fault of Coolify, but a know inconsistency with how UFW and Docker manage ports in IPTables. There are various workarounds/hacks if one is concerned about access behind the network/internet firewall.

Gold mine! Thanks you for content.

Loved every second of this video. I’ve been waiting for it to drop. I was ready to go all in on coolify but after cj thoughts might be going manual for my upcoming production migration. Was really hoping to use this for that 😢

Thanks for this amazing tutorial CJ! By chance, have you noticed Coolify going rogue and consuming nearly 100% of the CPU on your VPS?

Finally is here!! Thanks! 🚀

Thanks a lot, this is a great resource to start self hosting with Coolify 👍

This is an amazing and thorough tutorial video! 🥰

Yeeeeeeees thank youuuu CJ ❤❤

Absolutely great explanation! Thank you so much! ❤

Great video, what I want to see from you additionally ıs setting up cloudflare tunnels(which they are free) and additionally for coolify to use tunnels. Love your work man.

Perfect video for my use case. Thanks a ton.

CJ, you are amazing.

I agree about managing docker compose and caddy. What would you say is the best way to do deploys on pr merging? I think that is the last magic I would consider using coolify on.

Hi CJ, Great job on this video! After listening to the syntax episode I tried coolifiy and I agree with your views at the end. I am very interested in how you would do this manually with just a server from 0 to production and what tools you depend on for this. If you already have videos on this I would love to view them. Thanks

I am trying coolify right now. So, this tutorial helped me in a lot of ways. Also, would it make sense to bring docker (I have watched your other video) into this series and make a video about hosting multiple containers (for different stack like express app, nextjs, etc) in a VPS and setting them up with Caddy (with different domain name)? Plus CI/CD etc

this video started simiple, then it got really complicted really fast !

awesome video ^.^

Great job man 🎉

53:35 "I didn't debug this for 2h" 😂 Those errors are the worst. I recently lost plenty of time because I used an env var wrong. Had the value quoted where it didn't need to be quoted and that was a tough one to spot.

Bro, your mustache has pierced my heart :D Awesome content, I want to cry for the quality of it. 47:00 Can you please show how to add a MFA like Authelia? I don't trust username/password combination. They're open to brute force attacks.

Thanks CJ

I'm a bit confused about the SSL part. You got a valid SSL certificate, where is the cert coming from? I didn't see any letsencrypt or any dns validation config. Is it a namecheap feature like cloudflare has?

great stuff, please keep making more. Quick question is there easy way to rename containers listed through Glances dashboard?

How does it compare to Dokploy can you do a video?

I think I would use coolify locally to manage a bunch of server. That way resources are not a problem and I can have multiple instances of my app on-premise but still have a way to control them.

I love Coolify

Thanks CJ!! Is it possible to also teach us how to set up load balance on coolify?

16:10 and I thank you for this consideration, helped me a lot. Sub'd

Thank you

How to add a custom domain that is not a subdomain of the server in which coolify is hosted?

@syntax I noticed you have are big on security, I like that. What are your thoughts on using Coolify with unprivileged containers for a more secure setup? Would you suggest just modifying the yaml file? I am confused on how to do this with Docker containers / templates and/or github app installs. What do you think about Sysbox? Also, I noticed you have an update in your comments saying that you can create a non root user but it says int hat link it is an experimental feature, have you had any problems with this as non root user?

awesome content

EDIT: never mind. I was trying to find it by scrubbing the video but then I found it w/ the bookmarks in the pinned comment. In what section is the firewall configured? I'm unfamiliar with Hertzner, is there a firewall to configure at that level or just a firewall on the machine itself?

could you please go over how to use storage, this is an important step so the app data can persist and not reset after each restart/re-deploy? also if we add hetzner volume. PS, with the caddy setup and cloudflare dns with attack mode on and proxy enabled and ssl set to strict it seems to loop banned for bit.

Yey Coolify!

I really dont understand the initial part about the user, I have installed coolify in a vps and created the user using the coolify panel, but the user created doesnt exist on the vps I cant even connect with it using ssh. You really need to create a more comprehensible tutorial

Very helpful one thing, how do I setup a persistent storage on coolify itself I struggled all day with this , cause on a new deploy all images are lost

I tried Coolify long time ago in 2022 and had some issues and tried it recently few months ago and had some issues immediately after installing it. Can't remember, but I'll give it another try soon because I actually want it to succeed and I actually want to use it mostly for Preview Deployments feature. I think it's just too prone to breaking from version to version (yes yes I know it's in beta), but it also being dependent on a single person is also quite problematic in my opinion.

Hi, I'm still new to this. I have one question, I'm using a pc with a quad core CPU so my question is will this work?

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But atually even crazier is how a single person can do so much work ... I am working like crazy maybe 12 hours a day on programming but can't reach that level of greatness and I am doing it 4 years straight no break up, it's demotivating sometimes.

Thanks cj. For the redirect part of this video, can I use cloudflare page rule (forwarding)? Do they work the same way? Or do I need to set up both?

@syntaxfm In your cloud-init you covered how you install updates and upgrades in an unattended way. Does this keep the System and other stuff like Docker actually recent or is this a one time thing, when cloud init Runs? It could be cool to modify the cloud init to update everything like with the pkg unattended-upgrades, but the configuration to receive e.g. Mails if there is an error would be handy. Maybe I am missing an easy way out?

your tache is ridiculous and awesome in equal measure. assume that's the look you're going for :D

please anyone havean answer i have a docker compose with django + react apps how we can tell coolify to link the domain to the react app not to the django? i asked Chatgpt but I can't get the answer

I seem to be getting an error 500 everry time i try to change the instance domain: "There has been an error, we are working on it. Error: The string `` is no valid url." Any know what could be the cause of this?

I'm running into issues getting Cloud-init to create the initial "cj" user. When I ssh into the server it doesn't exist in /etc/passwd. Cannot figure what the issue is here

After setting up domain to access coolify, Can we disable ip address from accessing coolify? For example, we access coolify using ip, but then we setup domain to access it, then how to block IP

can we set a different domain on each project? I notice you did it with subdomains

Does coolify need 2 CPUs or 2 “cores”? Because coolify’s website also says it can be run on a raspberry pi which makes me think they are saying it needs 2 “cores”.

which one is better for bun-sveltekit apps, coolify or caprover?? thanks🙃

I'm only about halfway through but I'm noticing that all new projects are hosted as subdomains of your general apps.gdn domain. Are you able to deploy projects with completely different domains or do they all have to be subdomains?

Having issue, what if we had caddy already setup on the server, how would we setup custom proxy?

Why didnt I hear about this before spending weeks setting up the infrastructure myself 😭

how to deploy an astro.js project? any resource how to do it?

how to deploy docker file? I don't know where to input the command.

@53:28 if only i saw this video before debugging 2 hours to figure out why.

Guys how do i implement email functionality with Coolify?

I'm looking at moving over all my side-projects to be hosted on a VPS instead of serverless/cloud providers. I think it would be straightforward with docker-compose + caddy (all of the apps are containerised), without needing something like Coolify. But the one thing that wouldn't work is that deployment would have to be mostly manual (SSH into the server, update the version in the docker-compose file, docker-compose up). Does anyone have a good system for automatically deploying on push (on the master branch) in Github?

43:06 Isn't it a security risk to put the private key in the docker file?

Cj, its possible add a different domain for each project in a same coolify instance?

How to use Coolify with existing Traefik instance. I am struggling with this issue for few weeks. Can someone help me? 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

is there an api in coolify that i can use to resell deployments to some clients as a PAAS ?

i have a contabo server they don't have a ui for setting up firewall . I tried using ufw but seems like the port is still open and haven't managed to close it .Can you help out ?

Is possible to deploy Wordpress website?

first time watch your video, tut is solid but that mustache is :(

Ok we now know how our apps get automatic subdomains but how the hell do I connect a normal domain do an app.

Can we configure domain with free ssl certificate

"Zero config" 😂

Is this free or cripple-ware if you self host it.

What stack do you use to build syntax website