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The world's most comprehensive cloud platform.
An open-source and self-hostable alternative to Vercel, Heroku, Netlify and Railway.
A Platform as a Service for deploying and scaling applications.
A developer platform for building, deploying, and scaling applications and workloads.
The agentic infrastructure platform for provisioning, deploying, and operating applications on your own cloud.
What is Dokploy
Dokploy is an open-source, self-hostable PaaS for deploying and managing applications, databases, and Docker Compose services on your own infrastructure. It provides a web interface for deployments, domains, SSL, backups, monitoring, logs, and server management.
Overview
Dokploy provides a PaaS-style interface for deploying applications and databases on VPS, bare-metal servers, and other infrastructure you control. Applications can be deployed from Git providers, Docker registries, or Docker Compose files, with support for multiple build types including Docker, Nixpacks, Heroku Buildpacks, and Paketo Buildpacks. Dokploy uses Docker and Traefik for container and networking management and provides features such as automatic SSL, custom domains, zero-downtime deployments, preview deployments, backups, real-time monitoring, deployment logs, scheduled jobs, multi-server support, and API access. It is available as free self-hosted open-source software or as Dokploy Cloud, where Dokploy manages the control plane while applications continue running on the user's servers.
Who should and shouldn't use it
- You want a self-hosted PaaS for deploying applications and databases.
- You want a web UI instead of managing every Docker deployment manually.
- You want to run workloads on your own VPS or infrastructure.
- You want Docker Compose support alongside standard application deployments.
- You want to avoid per-deployment or per-seat fees with the self-hosted version.
- You need features such as automatic SSL, backups, monitoring, logs, and multi-server support.
- You want a fully managed application hosting platform where you do not manage the underlying servers.
- You do not want to manage your own infrastructure when using the self-hosted edition.
- You need a Kubernetes-based deployment platform rather than Docker and Traefik.
- You only want a simple static-site host and do not need infrastructure management features.
Key Features
- Self-hosted open-source PaaS
- Application deployments
- Docker Compose deployments
- Database management
- Git-based deployments
- Docker registry support
- Automatic deployments via webhooks
- Preview deployments
- One-click templates
- Automatic SSL/TLS
- Custom domain management
- Zero-downtime deployments
- Registry-based rollbacks
- Multi-server support
- Docker Swarm clusters
- Real-time monitoring
- Application and deployment logs
- Database backups
- Scheduled jobs
- Docker cleanup jobs
- Slack, Discord, Telegram, email, and webhook notifications
- REST API and CLI
- Environment variables and secrets
- Role-based permissions
- Two-factor authentication
- Traefik integration
- Resource limits and volume management
Integrations Supported
Frequently Asked Questions
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