BridgePort vs Coolify

Fleet control plane vs self-hosted PaaS

Coolify and BridgePort are both self-hosted, open-source answers to "I want to run my stuff on my servers" — but they answer it for different workflows. Coolify is a platform-as-a-service you host yourself: push a git repository, it builds the app, wires a proxy and TLS, and runs it. A self-hosted Heroku, and a good one.

BridgePort starts one step later in the pipeline. It assumes CI already builds your images, and takes over from there: cataloged images deployed as services across a fleet, config and secrets synced to servers, dependency-ordered rollout plans with automatic rollback, and monitoring across servers, services, and databases. It also adopts infrastructure that already exists rather than assuming it was born on the platform.

At a glance

DimensionBridgePortCoolify

PhilosophyOps control plane for image-based services on your fleetSelf-hosted PaaS: git push → build → run

Builds from sourceBring images from any registry — CI owns the buildBuilds apps from git (Dockerfiles, Nixpacks, static sites)

Adopting existing serversDiscovers and manages containers already running on your hostsManages servers it provisions; pre-existing workloads stay outside its model

Reverse proxy & TLSBring your own (Caddy, Traefik, nginx) — managed as services like everything elseBuilt-in proxy with automatic HTTPS

Multi-service orchestrationDeployment plans: dependency ordering, health gates, automatic rollbackPer-app deploys with rollback to previous images; cross-app ordering is not the model

Secrets & configAES-256-GCM secrets + templated config files and fragments synced to serversPer-app environment variables; shared/team variables

MonitoringServer, service, and database metrics; URL/TCP/TLS checks; notificationsContainer status, basic server metrics, and notifications

DatabasesMonitors and manages the databases you run, wherever they runOne-click provisioning of popular databases with backups

Infrastructure as codeTerraform provider, REST API, Go SDK, CLI, MCP serverREST API and webhooks

LicenseApache-2.0, self-hostedApache-2.0, self-hosted (optional paid cloud)

Coolify moves fast — verify specifics against its current documentation for your version. Comparison last reviewed July 2026.

Choose BridgePort if…

CI already builds and pushes images, and you want deployment + operations from there.
You operate an existing fleet — including containers, proxies, and databases you set up yourself.
You need coordinated multi-service rollouts with rollback, not just per-app deploys.
You want your platform manageable through Terraform and a stable API.

Choose Coolify if…

You want git-push-to-deploy with builds, proxy, and TLS handled for you.
You are hosting many small apps and sites and value one-click databases and services.
A Heroku-like developer experience matters more than fleet-level orchestration.

Frequently asked questions

Is BridgePort a Coolify alternative?

They solve adjacent problems. Coolify is a self-hosted PaaS optimized for git-push deploys of apps it builds; BridgePort is a control plane for operating image-based Docker services across a fleet, including infrastructure it did not create. Ops-centric teams tend to fit BridgePort; app-hosting workflows fit Coolify.

Does BridgePort build my application from a git repository?

No, by design. Your CI builds and pushes the image to a registry; a webhook then triggers BridgePort to roll it out. That keeps builds reproducible in CI and deployments auditable in BridgePort.

Does BridgePort handle my reverse proxy and HTTPS?

BridgePort does not ship an embedded proxy. You run Caddy, Traefik, or nginx as a BridgePort-managed service — with its config templated, synced, and health-checked like everything else.

Can I migrate from Coolify to BridgePort?

If your apps are containers on servers you control, BridgePort can discover the running containers and manage them in place — migration is adopting, not rebuilding.