Why I'm Ditching Coolify for Ansible for Deploying my Web Apps

In this video we explore why I chose Ansible over Coolify for setting up my servers and deploying my web apps.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-08_coolify-to-ansible

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Chapters

00:00 - Intro
00:55 - Infrastructure as Code
02:35 - Control and Transparency
05:30 - Less Dependency Risk
06:50 - A Learning Opportunity
08:10 - How my Ansible Script is Working Out

Links:

- Hosting my Docker Container on a VPS with Coolify as a PaaS with GitHub Autodeploys - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRQT7Plndk&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How To Hide Your Server's IP Address For Free With Cloudflare - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zvZuBm8GqM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- Stop Vibe Coding, Start Power Coding - How To Write Quality Software Faster With Agentic AI - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akiymB1PyjY&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

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