Before Coolify came CapRover and dokku.

My toy server (64ram, ryzen 5600G 60tb HDD, 4tb NVMe) is currently running fedora/caprover, though I've been considering just putting truenas scale on it, as it added custom deployments as well...

Love Caprover. Using this on production to host many docker containers.

Same. I’ve contributed several app templates. It’s not terribly refined, and the creator took some flack for his approach to split licensing. But they are very responsive, and the platform is quite solid and easy to secure and adapt.

I found CapRover and dokku to have some limitations such as lack of a GUI or long setup process. In contrast with Coolify, it Just Worked™. I'll have to check out Tau as well.

CapRover has a UI to install new apps or configure existing ones.

CapRover set up was kind of annoying last I used it.

It’s one Docker command and an NPM script. Not sure where you got hung up, but I’ve spun up several with simple Bash scripts. Glad you found something that works at any rate.

Installing Portainer on top of Caprover (available as a one-click template) fills in most gaps in my experience.

That's a beast server. What are you using it for?

It sounds bigger then it is, raid 10 cuts it in half after all (30tb HDD, 2tb NVMe)

It's mostly just for the *arr stack, various self hosted services like vaultwarden, seafile etc and my personal toy projects. I.e. a pwa book reader along with the occasional dev tool I wanna experiment with.

What HDDs do you have for it to be 60TB in total?

6x6GB + 2x12gb

Then you have 24 TB with RAID10, not 30 TB. I guess that's why he was wondering.

Technically I've got 18tb raid 10 and 12TB raid 1, I just didn't think it mattered and I was too lazy to explain that on my phone ( • ‿ • )

The 6x6TB were previouly in a Synology NAS (roughly 8yrs old now) and I was planning to slowly migrate everything over to 12TB disk's as things start failing

Coolify needs a lot of work imho.

Do you mean it’s missing features or that it requires lots of maintenance and handholding?

I’m evaluating some of the options for toy projects so I’m curious to read people’s experiences.

It's still in beta (under active development), so for fairly serious projects it's not yet viable in production in my opinion. But I'm using it for two personal sites, and it works perfectly. It's exactly the kind of tool I was looking for: open source, self-hosting, easy to install, easy to use and well maintained.

IMO it adds a bunch of complexity (as these types of catch all frontend solutions usually do) to a problem that can be easily solved by becoming proficient in using Docker/Podman and spending a little bit of time reading the documentation for the services you want to run. Its a cool idea but uncessary IMO. There are also a ton of people that like it and I'm just one opinion.

I reccomend you try it but I also think you'll realize you could host that hobby project with half the hardware requirements and half the effort with something like docker-compose or swarm.

I’ve been using docker-compose on a vm for half a decade. Works very well with a reverse proxy + letsencrypt.

I was paying cooler 5 dollars a month so I didn't have to worry about any of that.

And for that it worked remarkably well

Especially when scaling beyond one server. The next Tau release will include `spore-drive`, a tool for deploying and updating on thousands of servers with a single command.

It's a different approach. Coolify is a container management platform with CI/CD integration. Tau is meant for developers, and Git is the only way to make changes. Moreover, Tau can handle compute, storage, pub-sub, and more. Note that, besides CI/CD, Tau cannot orchestrate containers currently.

So, being fully featured truly depends on your intended use case.

Before coolify there was also exoframe[1]

[1]: https://github.com/exoframejs/exoframe