Dokku Docker-Powered Mini-Heroku Self-Hosted PaaS

Dokku is a self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service built on Docker that provides Heroku-like git-push deployment on your own infrastructure. With 32,000+ GitHub stars, it supports buildpacks, Dockerfiles, custom domains, SSL via Let's Encrypt, and a rich plugin ecosystem for databases, caching, and storage.

Installation

Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:

• Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.

Basic usage or getting-started notes:

• A fresh VM running any of the following operating systems:

• Ubuntu 22.04 / 24.04 (amd64/arm64) - Any currently supported release

• Debian 11+ (amd64/arm64)

• Source: https://github.com/dokku/dokku

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dokku/dokku/HEAD/README.md

Source

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