BAUER GROUP - Coolify Migration Toolkit

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Moves a Coolify project — with its data — between servers, and relocates a whole Coolify instance to a new host. Failsafe, resumable, and rollback-capable.

Coolify can clone a resource to another server but deliberately will not move the data. VolumeCloneJob and CloneMe's cloneVolumeData flag exist upstream, but PR #4777 shipped them disabled. The maintainer's stated blockers — permission damage, job-queue spam at 50+ resources, no progress tracking, large-volume failures — are all consequences of running inside Coolify's Laravel queue. An external orchestrator has none of those constraints. That is what this is.

Repository Information

• Version: v2.7.6
• Repository: bauer-group/IP-CoolifyMigration
• Branch: main
• Architecture: Pure-logic cores with thin IO shells; saga engine with a crash-safe journal

Features

• Application-unaware mirroring — a cleanly stopped stack makes a volume just bytes. No per-engine logic, no supported-database allowlist. Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, KeyDB, Dragonfly, ClickHouse and anything else you run are all handled the same way, because none of them are special once stopped.
• Byte-exact — rsync -aHAXS --numeric-ids, parallelised, with SHA-256 and metadata verification on both sides. Never chown.
• Failsafe — every step has a compensating action, journalled to disk. The source is never destroyed until you explicitly say so, so rollback is always available. resume reconciles against reality, not against the journal.
• DNS gate — extracts every Traefik/Caddy hostname and refuses to start the target while DNS still resolves to the old server, with an actionable cutover checklist.
• Honest about drift — the target is built exactly as the source is configured, but a tag is a pointer and a branch moves. We detect a floating latest that could cross a database major, or a HEAD that has moved, and put the concrete question to you rather than deciding for you.
• Server migration — relocate the whole Coolify instance, with the APP_KEY treated as a first-class, asserted artifact rather than a lucky side effect.
• Proven, not assumed — an integration rig of two real sshd containers asserts that uid 999, hardlinks, xattrs, sparse files and symlinks survive an actual rsync, and that a wrong chown is caught by verification.

Architecture

Layer	Role
domain/	Pure logic: classification, compose analysis, volume pairing, drift, state machine
api/	Coolify REST client with per-endpoint request whitelists
discovery/	Docker + API reconciliation; the label-based quiesce gate
transfer/	asyncssh, rsync planning, checksum verification
journal/	Append-only crash-safe state
dns/	FQDN extraction, authoritative resolution, cutover gate
ui/	Rich dashboard, wizard, and a plain non-TTY fallback

Requires the instance API switched on (Settings > API — off by default) and a token with root or read:sensitive. Without the switch every call is 403 "API is disabled.", which looks like a token problem but is not. Without the scope, Coolify's ApiSensitiveData middleware silently omits value, real_value and docker_compose_raw from responses — no error, no redaction marker. The tool checks both at startup and fails closed.

Quick start

pip install bg-coolify-migrate

export COOLIFY_URL="https://coolify.example.com"
export COOLIFY_TOKEN="..."          # root or read:sensitive

coolify-migrate doctor                 # verify token scope + server reachability
coolify-migrate list                   # everything: server -> project -> env -> resource
coolify-migrate list my-project        # limited to one project

# Scope with a selector: project / project/environment / project/environment/resource
coolify-migrate plan my-project --to target-server              # whole project (dry run)
coolify-migrate run  my-project/production --to target-server   # one environment
coolify-migrate run  my-project/production/api --to target-server  # one resource

Omit the selector in a terminal and plan/run open an interactive picker.

Interrupted? coolify-migrate resume <id>. Regret it? coolify-migrate rollback <id>.

Server migration

coolify-migrate server plan --to new-host.example.com
coolify-migrate server run  --to new-host.example.com

Documentation

See docs/: installation, configuration, cli, architecture, safety, server-migration, troubleshooting.

License

MIT © BAUER GROUP