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Coolify and friends (Dokploy?) look like nice tools. But I am not very comfortable with them because the state of my server(s) isn't present in code. So, I like NixOS or Ansible more but then they require a bunch of boilerplate and custom infrastructure for setting up production.

Anyone know some infrastructure-as-code framework that makes it easy to spin up and maintain production servers? Something declarative, perhaps, but not Kubernetes?

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I’ve been working on doing this with Coolify. There are very few coolify settings to backup, and then all the application configs are stored in /data/coolify. And I use kopia to backup all the volumes. It’s not pretty, and a little hacky, but workable for disaster recovery.

What you are describing sounds more like backups (which is great) but not necessarily a declarative setup.

Yah fair enough. I'm very beginner, and using python lib fabric to push ssh commands.

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