Container tag/name prefix

[AdamJessop]

It would be nice to prefix containers with a tag so we can identify containers without losing the rollback functionality.

We use datadog across our coolify servers and it would help with identifying containers and what they are serving.

I am aware we can force name the containers, but at the cost of rolling deployments etc. Instead it would be great if we could supply a prefix and a random string is postfixed to the container name to keep the rolling deployment feature intact.

[Julien-R44]

Hey, I'm experiencing the exact same issue and just wanted to explain my use case

I have a Grafana dashboard along with cAdvisor running on my server where Coolify is set up. cAdvisor exports CPU/RAM usage metrics for each container individually. Here’s a quick screenshot:

As you can see, it's impossible to identify anything with these auto-generated container names. So yeah, I was thinking about 2 solutions:

• As suggested by the OP, implementing a prefix system for container names.
• Additionally, I think it would be super cool to automatically add coolify.projectName and coolify.applicationName labels to each container. The values for these labels would be automatically pulled from previously entered form inputs. So, for example, this application:
  
  would have coolify.projectName=myproject and coolify.applicationName=my-super-project.

I think both solutions would be useful to have. In fact, the second one might be more practical in some cases: it would allow me to get consistent metrics for a single container, even if it restarts and gets a new name. With the labels, the values would remain the same even if it restart, allowing me to maintain a continuous series instead of having two separate series labeled my-prefix-3422394823948234 and my-prefix-3249238429384. Hope that makes sense 😅 !

I would be happy to submit a PR if we get the go-ahead for this.

Also, on top of that, we also have an issue with managed DBs, where we can't edit container names at all. Unfortunately I don't know enough about Coolify's inner workings to suggest a solution here.