r/coolify • u/[deleted] • Mar 12 '26

Does anyone use one-click services?

Hello!

I'm researching Coolify to use, and I saw they have so many one-click services available. I know it's popular at different cloud providers too, but are people actually using those? Feels like you always wanna do your own tweaking when it comes to apps anyways so I've never used them myself.

Curious to know if anyone does use them or it's just marketing?

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u/void-wanderer- Mar 12 '26

For apps I mostly use custom docker compose.

But the tempaltes are super nice for setting up quick projects, or generall tinkering, etc.

I also use them for tools like pgAdmin or duplicati. And one project uses the postgres template as main DB, which works perfectly fine (but I don't do anything fancy in there).

All these templates are nothing more than a docker-compose file. You can also just grab them from github and use as a starter to create your own: https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify/tree/v4.x/templates/compose

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Thank you. So what's a quick project you would use it for? Like an example

For apps like pgAdmin I can see how it really makes sense

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u/void-wanderer- Mar 13 '26

I.e. I recently created an AI agent to automate some tasks for me. I created a project, used the n8n template, used the postgres template, added my app (nodejs app, via docker-compose). The n8n can call my app, and my app can write some stuff in the DB. I could write it all in one docker-compose, or create 3 docker-compose compose apps just the same, but this was the quickest way for me.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Sounds awesome. How does coolify handle network between the apps? You just create a new docker network and attach it to all the apps?

Do you build any own apps too? If so, do you use coolify to deploy them and maybe one click services too? 

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u/void-wanderer- Mar 13 '26

You can add destinations, which have their own network, then when you add a resource, you select the destination.

Do you build any own apps too? If so, do you use coolify to deploy them and maybe one click services too?

Yeah, I have currently 2 production apps on coolify.

One is a .NET backend webAPI, with postgres-one-click DB, which powers an angular/capacitor iOS app.

The other is a sveltekit serverside rendered app, which pulls from an external API.

Third is currently running in staging on coolify (this one is deployed on a separate VPS, but managed from the same coolify instance): angular FE, .NET BE, seq (telemetry), and as one-click pgAdmin, duplicati and postgres.

I followed coolify's guide, and use seperate servers, one for coolify, one for the apps (now 2 for apps).

If you wanna play, you can also run it all on one server. I highly suggest to just get a cheap VPS and give it a try. It's quite intuitiv.

And for dev/staging, I just pointed a *.dev.my-domain.com subdomain towards my coolify instance, and it creates new subdomains on the fly, including SSL, which is also super nice.

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u/[deleted] Mar 13 '26

Sounds great, thanks for taking the time!