Coolify

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Installation ​

Installation of Coolify is automated with a single script.

bash
curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash
curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash

You can find the source code here.

The script will do the followings on your operating system:

  • Install basic commands: curl wget git jq jc
  • Docker Engine (24+)
  • Configures proper logging for Docker Engine.
  • Creates directory structure at /data/coolify for all the configuration files.
  • Creates an SSH key for Coolify to be able to manage this server from itself at /data/coolify/ssh/keys/id.root@host.docker.internal.
  • Install dockerized Coolify.

Supported Operating Systems ​

  • Debian based Linux distributions (Debian, Ubuntu, etc.)
  • Redhat based Linux distributions (CentOS, Fedora, Redhat, AlmaLinux, Rocky etc.)
  • SUSE based Linux distributions (SLES, SUSE, openSUSE, etc.)
  • Raspberry Pi OS (Raspbian)

If you would like to have other, please consider open an issue on GitHub.

AMD64 and ARM architecture are supported.

TIP

We recommend Hetzner (referral link!). They have very cheap but super powerful servers, in EU and US.

Required CPU/Memory/Disk ​

Minimum required resources for Coolify:

  • 2 CPUs
  • 2 GBs memory
  • 30+ GB of storage for the images.

It could run on smaller servers as well, but not recommended.

Additional Resources ​

Based on what you would like to host additional resources (CPU, memory, disk) are needed.

Self-hosting could be heavy if you would like to run a lot of things.

But for example, I'm hosting most of my production stuffs on a server with:

- 8GB of memory (average usage 3.5GB)
- 4 CPUs (average usage ~20-30%)
- 150GB disk (usage 40GB)
- 8GB of memory (average usage 3.5GB)
- 4 CPUs (average usage ~20-30%)
- 150GB disk (usage 40GB)

Hosting the following things:

- 3 NodeJS apps
- 4 Static sites
- Plausible Analytics (for visitor analytics)
- Fider (feedback tool)
- UptimeKuma (uptime monitoring)
- Ghost (my newsletters)
- 3 Redis databases
- 2 PostgreSQL databases
- 3 NodeJS apps
- 4 Static sites
- Plausible Analytics (for visitor analytics)
- Fider (feedback tool)
- UptimeKuma (uptime monitoring)
- Ghost (my newsletters)
- 3 Redis databases
- 2 PostgreSQL databases

Uninstall ​

You can easily uninstall Coolify by stopping the following containers, coolify,coolify-db, coolify-proxy, and coolify-redis or by executing the following script:

bash
docker stop -t 0 coolify coolify-db coolify-proxy coolify-redis; docker rm coolify coolify-db coolify-proxy coolify-redis
docker stop -t 0 coolify coolify-db coolify-proxy coolify-redis; docker rm coolify coolify-db coolify-proxy coolify-redis

You also need to cleanup all the docker volumes as well.

bash
docker volume rm coolify-db coolify-redis
docker volume rm coolify-db coolify-redis

WARNING

The following command will delete EVERYTING related to your configurations, backups, etc.

And delete all configurations in /data/coolify:

bash
rm -fr /data/coolify
rm -fr /data/coolify