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Coolify is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS that lets you deploy apps, databases, and services to your own servers via SSH.
What: Coolify offers a self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, and Netlify, supporting 360+ one-click services, automatic HTTPS, and deployments from Git repositories using Nixpacks, Dockerfiles, or Docker Compose.
Why it matters: It addresses vendor lock-in for infrastructure, allowing developers to maintain control over their hardware while gaining managed platform-as-a-service convenience.
Takeaway: Install it on your VPS with: curl -fsSL https://cdn.coollabs.io/coolify/install.sh | bash.
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Coolify

An open-source platform to deploy applications, databases, and services on your own servers.

Open source & free forever, backed by our philosophy.

Website · Documentation · Cloud · Discord · Community

What is Coolify?

Coolify is an open-source and self-hostable alternative to Heroku, Netlify, and Vercel. It helps you manage servers, applications, and databases on your own hardware. You only need an SSH connection.

You can use a VPS, a bare-metal server, a Raspberry Pi, or any other server that accepts SSH connections. Coolify gives you the convenience of a cloud platform while you keep control of your infrastructure.

Your configurations stay on your servers. If you stop using Coolify, your running resources continue to work and remain manageable.

What can Coolify do?

  • Deploy any application: Build from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Gitea with Nixpacks, Railpack, Dockerfile, Docker Compose, or a prebuilt Docker image.
  • Run databases and services: Deploy managed databases and more than 360 one-click services with persistent storage and generated credentials.
  • Automate deployments: Deploy on every Git push, create pull-request previews, call deployment webhooks, and roll back to retained application images.
  • Manage networking: Configure custom domains, automatic HTTPS certificates, reverse proxies, health checks, and container networks.
  • Operate your infrastructure: Manage multiple servers, inspect deployment and runtime logs, open container terminals, and monitor resource status.
  • Protect your workloads: Configure database and storage backups, scheduled tasks, environment variables, secrets, and notifications.
  • Integrate with your workflow: Manage resources through the dashboard, API, CLI, MCP, and team-based access controls.

Quick start

Install Coolify on a supported server with one command:

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

Read the installation guide for requirements and detailed instructions.

Self-hosted or Cloud

Self-hosted Coolify Cloud
Install Coolify on your own server. Use a Coolify instance that we maintain.
Control and maintain the complete platform. Get high availability and less maintenance.
Free and open source. Paid service with email notifications and additional support.

The recommended self-hosted setup uses one server for Coolify and one or more servers for deployed resources. If you do not want to maintain the Coolify server, use Coolify Cloud. See coolify.io for current pricing.

Community and support

Donations

To stay completely free and open-source, with no feature behind the paywall and evolve the project, we need your help. If you like Coolify, please consider donating to help us fund the project's future development.

coolify.io/sponsorships

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