What is Dokku?
Docker powered mini-Heroku. The smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen.
Dokku is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
Dokku is an open source tool with 19.7K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Dokku's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Dokku?
Companies
37 companies reportedly use Dokku in their tech stacks, including MAK IT, Penn Labs Web, and Bonton.
Developers
82 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Dokku.
Dokku Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Dokku?
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
Flynn
Flynn lets you deploy apps with git push and containers. Developers can deploy any app to any cluster in seconds.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
Rancher
Rancher is an open source container management platform that includes full distributions of Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Docker Swarm, and makes it simple to operate container clusters on any cloud or infrastructure platform.
