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Dokku

Self-hosted platform as a service that runs on a single Linux server and deploys web apps pushed to it with git.

Dokku is a platform as a service that its operator installs on one Linux server. Apps are deployed by pushing their code to the server with git. Dokku builds each app from a Dockerfile, or detects the language and builds it with buildpacks, then starts containers from the resulting image. The installation guide describes the requirements and the bootstrap script that installs it.

The project’s homepage describes Dokku as an open source alternative to Heroku.

Worth knowing

The open source edition runs on a single server. The project sells a separate add-on, Dokku Pro, for the same installation, and its page states that it is not a hosted service.

Identity

Status
Active
Maintainer
Jeff Lindsay4
First release
20137

Rendering and deploy

Runs as
Always on5
Install with
bootstrap.sh script run with sudo (apt-get on Debian systems)3

Releases

Current major version
Pre-1.07
Last release
2026-10-257

Adoption

GitHub stars
32,2042
Contributors
4068

Why these figures do not compare

Sources

  1. 2026-10-28: links, Categories
    dokku.com/
  2. 2026-10-28: links, Written in, GitHub stars
    api.github.com/repos/dokku/dokku
  3. 2026-10-28: links, Install with, License, License model
    github.com/dokku/dokku/blob/master/README.md
  4. 2026-10-28: Maintainer
    github.com/dokku/dokku/blob/master/LICENSE
  5. 2026-10-28: Runs as
    dokku.com/docs/getting-started/installation/
  6. 2026-10-28: links
    pro.dokku.com/
  7. 2026-10-28: First release, Current major version, Last release
    api.github.com/repos/dokku/dokku/releases
  8. 2026-10-28: Contributors
    api.github.com/repos/dokku/dokku/contributors

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