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24 alternatives to Polybox: An tiny PaaS to Git push to deploy micro-services and sites

Sailor is a tiny PaaS to install on your servers/VPS that uses git push to deploy micro-apps, micro-services, sites with SSL, on your own servers or VPS - mardix/sailor

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Polybox: An tiny PaaS to Git push to deploy micro-services and sites launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    I got tired of the push-to-registry/pull-from-registry dance every time I needed to deploy a Docker image. In certain cases, using a full-fledged external (or even local) registry is annoying overhead. And if you think about it, there's already a form of registry present on any of your Docker-enabled hosts — the Docker's own image storage. So I built Unregistry [1] that exposes Docker's (containerd) image storage through a standard registry API. It adds a `docker pussh` command that pushes images directly to remote Docker daemons over SSH. It transfers only the missing layers, making it…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your site with 🚨 Big Red Button

    2017 · pushtodeploy.netlify.com · its alternatives →

  4. 4

    Build and run tiny vms from Dockerfiles. Small and sleek. - ottomatica/slim

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Lua MVC Web Framework. Contribute to sailorproject/sailor development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Sailor▲6

    Simplifying Cloud

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A reimagined PaaS (Platform as a Service) for all your apps

    2020 · digitalocean.com · its alternatives →

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    OpenShip▲154

    Open source PaaS on your server or in the cloud. No lock in.

    Aug 2026 · openship.io · its alternatives →

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    hey guys. the other day i was migrating hosting providers and i just needed something not too heavy and convenient to spin up my backups for awhile and realised there is almost nothing out there. kimchi hasn't been updated for years and cockpit is heavy. so here's something i came up with in a couple hours because of a sudden urge, nothing fancy just basic creation with cloud init, lifecycle management and image/storage, but it's modern-ish and it compiles to a 8.4mb binary inclusive of the embedded web UI, CLI and API, and only dep is libvirt.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    balenaCloud: Manage fleets of IoT Linux devices with balena’s cloud platform. First 10 devices are free. Develop, deploy, and scale your IoT fleet.

    2015 · resin.io · its alternatives →

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    A single-click button to do tasks like git add, commit, push

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Deploy your LiveKit Voice AI agents instantly

    2025 · oneclickdeploy.co · 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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    The fastest way to ship software with big data requirements.

    2025 · tinybird.co · its alternatives →

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    Instant GPT-3 backend hosting so you can focus on product

    2023 · steamship.com · its alternatives →

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    I'm sure folks here have seen pastebins a thousand times. There's no innovation left in this space – and that's kind of the point. When I wanted to self-host a pastebin, every option I found was too much. Git-based version control, OAuth, elaborate admin panels. I just wanted something I could deploy in under a minute with a CLI that actually works. So I built pbnj (yes, like the sandwich). What it is: - A minimal, beautiful pastebin with syntax highlighting for 100+ languages - One-click deploy to Cloudflare (free tier gives you ~100,000 pastes) - CLI-first: pbnj file.py → get a URL, copied…

    Dec 2025 · pbnj.sh · its alternatives →

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    Simple web focused Docker based mini-PaaS server

    2014 · octohost.io · its alternatives →

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    Iterate your real-time data pipelines with Git

    2023 · tinybird.co · its alternatives →

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    Delivery system based on git push and ssh. Contribute to arnoo/git-deliver development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2013 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A developer-focused app PaaS (platform as a service)

    2022 · sevalla.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22PS

    Pronounced Push-It.... I'm a lazy developer for the most part, so this is for people like me. Sometimes I just want my local code running in live remote containers quickly, without building images and syncing to cloud docker repos or setting up git workflows or any of the other draining ways to get your code running remotely. With pooshit (and a simple config file), you can simply push your local dev files to a remote folder on a VM then automatically remove relevant running containers, then build and run an updated container with one command line call. It works well with reverse proxies…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Gitkube▲90

    Build and deploy docker images to Kubernetes using git push.

    2018 · gitkube.sh · its alternatives →

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    Deploy full-stack apps from Git in minutes.

    Jul 2026 · anysites.app · its alternatives →

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