dokku
by dokku
Dokku is a lightweight PaaS that uses Docker to help build and manage application lifecycles.
Ready to useEstablished, openly licensed, and no red flags in its documentation.
- Stars
- 32.2k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Go
- Age
- 4888 days
What you can do with it
- Deploy applications
- Manage application lifecycles
- Scale applications
Could replace
- Heroku
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Our suggestion based on what it does, not a feature-by-feature comparison.
Ways a business could use it
- Automate deployment processes
- Reduce cloud hosting costs
- Increase control over application infrastructure
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell, including in paid products. Keep the copyright notice.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Install using `wget` and `bash` commands, or via `apt` for Debian-based systems.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Checked 26 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
