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Dokploy/dokploy
Open Source Alternative to Vercel, Netlify and Heroku.
Dokploy is a self-hosted PaaS that gives you a Heroku/Render-like deployment experience on your own VPS. It wraps Docker Swarm and Traefik into a Next.js dashboard, handles SSL, databases, backups, and webhooks from GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket. It's for developers and small teams who want PaaS convenience without the per-seat pricing.
Traefik integration is first-class — SSL termination, custom domains, and reverse proxying are handled automatically without touching config files. Docker Swarm multi-node support is genuinely useful for teams that want horizontal scaling without graduating to Kubernetes. The test suite is real and covers non-trivial ground: compose parsing, Traefik label generation, permission resolution, and environment variable handling. Database backup scheduling with external storage destinations is built in, not bolted on.
Docker Swarm is the clustering primitive, which means you're inheriting all of Swarm's operational quirks — split-brain behavior, raft consensus failures, and a smaller ecosystem of tooling compared to Kubernetes. The install script is a `curl | bash` with no checksum verification, which is a supply-chain risk you're accepting on your production VPS. The proprietary license (`LICENSE_PROPRIETARY.md` alongside the open-source one) is a yellow flag — multi-server and certain enterprise features appear gated, so read the license before building anything serious on top of it. The monorepo has grown to a point where the `apps/dokploy` directory is doing heavy lifting across both the API and the frontend with no clear boundary between them.