2025 was a pivotal year for my infrastructure’s “internal plumbing.” I reached a point where I could no longer rely on isolated, stateful containers. To ensure reliable service continuity, I invested significant time and effort into building an orchestrated system.
While Coolify was an intuitive introduction to basic DevOps concepts, I eventually hit its limitations. At the time, it lacked true orchestration, and any configuration not naively supported by the Coolify interface—such as using a non-root user as an admin—was nearly impossible to implement. On the other hand, it wasn’t easy to let go of such a simple deployment process for apps like nuxt sites. However, moving away from that “easy way” pushed me to truly understand CI/CD and GitHub Actions.
The deployment wasn’t that hard actually, especially using this approach of one script that I followed from Jim’s Garage YouTube channel. I only had to make some changes to access my Tailscale network.