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Dokploy

Dokploy

Dokploy is a self-hosted deployment platform, basically your own Heroku or Vercel running on a VPS you control. Instead of wiring up Docker, a reverse proxy, and SSL certificates by hand every time, you point Dokploy at a Git repo or a Docker image and it builds, deploys, and serves your app behind automatic HTTPS.

It gives you a web UI for applications, databases, and Docker Compose stacks, with build logs, environment variables, and rollbacks. Under the hood it runs on Docker Swarm and Traefik, but you rarely have to think about either.

You install it on a fresh Linux server with a single command:

curl -sSL https://dokploy.com/install.sh | sh

I run it on a small VPS to host my own side projects and services, like the kosync server that syncs my reading position between devices.