Coolify Crash Course | Self Host 101 | Secure Set up

In this video CJ shows you what Coolify is, what it does, how to choose a server to deploy it to, how to lock it down with https, how to deploy several types of applications on it, how to setup s3 compatible storage for file uploads / backups and more.

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
28:09 What is nixpacks?
31:38 Create a Github application in Coolify
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!

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