Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Dokku
Docker powered mini-Heroku in around 100 lines of Bash
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dokku launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Dokploy▲203Open-source alternative to Heroku, Vercel & Netlify
2024 · dokploy.com · its alternatives →
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Dokploy Cloud▲224The open source alternative to Vercel, Heroku and Netlify
2024 · dokploy.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I've been working on Canine for about a year now. It started when I was sick of paying the overhead of using stuff like Heroku, Render, Fly, etc to host some web apps that I've built. At one point I was paying over $400 a month for hosting these in the cloud. Last year I moved all my stuff to Hetzner. For a 4GB machine, the cost of various providers: Heroku = $260 Fly.io = $65 Render = $85 Hetzner = $4 (This problem gets a lot worse when you need > 4GB) The only downside of using Hetzner is that there isn’t a super straightforward way to do stuff like: - DNS management / SSL…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Scalable PaaS (automated Docker+nginx) - aka Heroku on Steroids - caprover/README.md at master · caprover/caprover
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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ohai! I've released Lightwhale 3, which is possibly the easiest way to self-host Docker containers. It's a free, immutable Linux system purpose-built to live-boot straight into a working Docker Engine, thereby shortcutting the need for installation, configuration, and maintenance. Its simple design makes it easy to learn, and its low memory footprint should make it especially attractive during these times of RAMageddon. If this has piqued your interest, do check it out, along with its easy-to-follow Getting Started guide. In any event, have a nice day! =)
Apr 2026 · lightwhale.asklandd.dk · its alternatives →
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Some folks at Tokyo just launched a Heroku alternative PaaS based on Docker containers called moCloud, what do you think? https://mocloud.io
2015 · its alternatives →
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LovelyHeroku▲79Scale and debug your Heroku dynos on the go (Android only)
2014 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Parity▲2Shell commands for dev and production parity on Heroku
2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The tiniest PaaS you've ever seen. Piku allows you to do git push deployments to your own servers. - piku/piku
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · repobus.com · its alternatives →
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Startup Weekend just started in our city and we thought we'll build a Heroku autoscaler that really works, and saves you not only from slowly building traffic but from the slashdot effect as well.<p>Those who tried out ddollar's gem (and all forks of it) or even Heroscale know that the problem's not so trivial to solve.<p>We hope people will get it, and pay a small monthly fee to save many days of inrastructure coding so they can focus on business logic instead.<p>URL is: http://scalefu.com/
2011 · scalefu.com · its alternatives →
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