This is a preview of some of the handbook sections.
In this section, we’ll go over setting up our follower node, where the actual resources will be deployed, which can be any VPS or a physical device you own, setting up backups, notifications, environment variables, setting up custom (sub)domain for our Coolify dashboard, and connect our coolify instance with our GitHub account.
You can deploy your resources on the same server that runs your coolify instance, but please note that might be resource intensive, especially for project building operations. That’s why you will go with a leader / follower architecture.
First, go to the Keys & Tokens tab in the coolify UI located under https://COOLIFY_URL/security/private-key and add the private key of your follower node.
The next step to to add the follower node/server as a registered server. To accomplish that, head over to Servers Tab in Coolify UI, click on the Add button and enter your follower server IP address, SSH port, username and select the private key you’ve created earlier.
Once the above is finalized, youproceed to the next step to setup backups for our coolify’s instance configuration. Coolify supports two types of backups:
To enable backups, navigate to the Settings > Backup tab and enter a description for your backup, enable the Backup Enabled checkbox and set the retention settings and frequency for your backups and Save your configuration.