Coolify VPS
The open-source PaaS with 55,000+ GitHub stars and the largest one-click service catalog in its class — Coolify gives you the Vercel push-to-deploy workflow on a dedicated server you control. Connect a GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or Gitea repository and every push builds and deploys automatically via Nixpacks, a Dockerfile, or Docker Compose, with Traefik or Caddy reverse proxying, automatic Let's Encrypt certificates, and per-branch preview deployments with their own URLs. Databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis — provision in a few clicks, and a catalog of 280+ one-click service templates covers WordPress, n8n, Grafana, MinIO, Plausible, Ollama, and more. One dashboard manages the entire server, with Docker Swarm available for clustering multiple nodes. Backups go to any S3-compatible storage with one-click restore, and a full API supports CI/CD integration. All configuration lives on your own server, so resources keep running even if you stop using Coolify — no vendor lock-in by design. Running on a dedicated VPS with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root access via SSH and browser console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Openship
Point Openship at a GitHub repo, local folder, or prebuilt artifact and it detects your stack, builds a Docker container, provisions databases, configures domains with automatic Let's Encrypt TLS, and routes traffic through an OpenResty edge layer on ports 80 and 443. Already past 10,000 stars since launching in March 2026, it turns any Linux VPS into a managed application host. Language support covers Node.js, Python, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Java, .NET, Docker, and monorepo projects with push-to-deploy CI/CD, pull request preview environments on unique subdomains, staging/production flows, and one-click rollbacks. Integrated backend services include managed Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, persistent volumes, WebSocket proxying, object storage, and worker processes, all provisioned from the dashboard without compose files. A built-in SMTP server handles transactional email with automatic DKIM, SPF, and DMARC configuration, eliminating external email services. The edge layer serves HTTP/3 with Brotli compression, configurable cache rules, and instant purging. Real-time monitoring streams build logs, container metrics, visitor geography, and per-status-code analytics at 1.4 microsecond overhead with zero database writes. Scheduled backups cover databases and volumes with one-click restore and export. Three interfaces (web dashboard, desktop app for macOS/Windows/Linux, and the openship CLI) drive the same API, plus a Model Context Protocol endpoint for AI integration. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Dokploy VPS
Your own Heroku or Vercel on a dedicated server — Dokploy is the open-source PaaS that replaces cloud platform subscriptions with a single dashboard you control. Point it at a Git repository or a Docker image, and it builds and deploys the application using Dockerfiles, Nixpacks, or Heroku/Paketo buildpacks. Traefik handles reverse proxying, routing, load balancing, automatic Let's Encrypt SSL, and HTTP/3. Databases — MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, libsql, and Redis — provision from the UI with automated backups to any S3-compatible destination. Complex multi-service applications deploy through native Docker Compose support, and multi-node scaling uses Docker Swarm. The web dashboard covers environment variables, volumes, resource limits, real-time CPU/memory/network monitoring, and deployment logs, with a CLI and REST API for automation. Deploy notifications go to Slack, Discord, Telegram, or email. One-click templates install common open-source tools, and a single control plane can manage deployments across multiple remote servers. Because everything is standard Docker, there is no lock-in: Dockerfiles, Compose files, and data volumes work anywhere else Docker runs. The push-to-deploy workflow of a $20/seat cloud PaaS, running on a dedicated VPS with guaranteed CPU, RAM, SSD, and full root access — no per-app, per-environment, or per-seat fees regardless of how many applications you deploy. 26,000+ GitHub stars.
Checkmate
With 10,400 GitHub stars, 153 contributors, and no per-monitor pricing to worry about, Checkmate delivers comprehensive infrastructure monitoring from a single self-hosted dashboard — tracking uptime, page speed, server hardware, Docker containers, and even game servers without sending a byte of telemetry off your network. Ten monitor types cover HTTP, ping, TCP, gRPC, WebSocket, DNS, SSL certificate expiry, Docker container health, Lighthouse page speed with Core Web Vitals tracking, and game server status for over 100 server types including Minecraft and CS2. The Globalping integration enables geo-distributed monitoring from six continents, running ping and HTTP checks from Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania with results plotted on an interactive map. The optional Capture agent written in Go collects CPU, RAM, disk usage, temperature, and network metrics from any Linux, Windows, Mac, or Raspberry Pi host. Public status pages ship with four built-in themes and custom branding support, showing per-service uptime bars and incident history on a single shareable URL. Alert notifications reach teams through email, Discord, Slack, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, Telegram, Matrix, ntfy, Twilio SMS, and webhooks. Deploy via a single Docker Compose file requiring roughly 1 GB RAM — up and running in under five minutes on any Docker host. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPLv3 licensed.
Komodo
Komodo puts every server, container, and deployment pipeline behind a single dashboard where you build, ship, and monitor Docker workloads across unlimited hosts. Lightweight stateless agents install on each connected server and report CPU, memory, and disk metrics back to the Rust-powered core, giving you real-time visibility without heavyweight monitoring stacks. Docker Compose stacks deploy directly from the UI or link to Git repositories with webhook-triggered automatic redeploys on push. A built-in CI pipeline compiles versioned Docker images from source, with optional AWS spot instances for burst build capacity. For orchestration at scale, Docker Swarm management handles node configuration, service deployment, and multi-node stack orchestration from the same control plane. Browser terminal sessions open persistent named shells on servers and inside containers, complete with shared team access and scriptable Actions that chain executions into multi-stage procedures. Infrastructure-as-code support defines all resources declaratively in TOML files within a Git repository, keeping production state version-controlled and auditable. Granular role-based access control with user groups, per-resource permissions, and OAuth through GitHub and Google keeps teams operating within defined boundaries. A full OpenAPI specification, dedicated CLI, and typesafe client libraries for Rust and TypeScript make programmatic integration straightforward. With 12,000+ stars and active development, the community continues expanding multi-architecture builds and Swarm tooling.
Dagger
With 16,100 GitHub stars and created by Solomon Hykes (co-founder of Docker), Dagger eliminates proprietary YAML DSLs from CI/CD by letting developers write pipelines as real programs in their preferred language — then executing them identically on a laptop, in GitHub Actions, in GitLab CI, or on any machine with a container runtime. The BuildKit-based Dagger Engine runs every pipeline operation inside OCI containers, constructing a directed acyclic graph where each node is cached by default, parallelized automatically, and produces bit-for-bit reproducible outputs regardless of execution environment. Native SDKs generated from the GraphQL API schema provide Go, Python, TypeScript, PHP, Java, .NET, Elixir, and Rust developers with full type safety, IDE autocomplete, and the ability to unit-test CI pipelines using the same testing frameworks as application code. The module ecosystem enables cross-language composition where a Python team can invoke a Go team's build functions without learning Go, while filesystems, secrets, git repositories, and network tunnels are passed between functions as strongly-typed objects. Pipeline operations cache at container-layer granularity with content-addressed deduplication, and the interactive REPL enables step-by-step pipeline debugging with live container inspection. Host dependencies are explicit and strictly typed, eliminating implicit environment coupling that causes "works on my machine" failures. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Neko
With over 21,000 GitHub stars and six years of steady development through version 3.1.0, Neko transforms any Docker container into a fully interactive browser or desktop environment streamed to web browsers via WebRTC with sub-300-millisecond glass-to-glass latency. The Go backend captures X server display frames using the Pion WebRTC library while the Vue.js frontend renders the remote session with native audio synchronization, delivering a significantly smoother experience than Apache Guacamole or noVNC which rely on image-over-WebSocket approaches. Multiple users simultaneously view and collaboratively control the same session with real-time input synchronization and host-managed control passing between participants. Pre-built Docker images cover Firefox, Chromium, Google Chrome, Tor Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, and Microsoft Edge alongside full desktop environments including XFCE and KDE for running any Linux application. Neko Rooms provides multi-tenant deployment with a REST API for programmatic room provisioning, while Neko Apps extends the platform with additional containerized applications beyond browsers. Sessions persist on the server independently of client connections — close your laptop, reconnect from your phone, and resume exactly where you left off. Optional VPN and Tor integration routes traffic through encrypted tunnels for privacy-sensitive browsing. RTMP broadcasting streams sessions to external platforms. The embeddable client supports iframe integration for custom portals and applications. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.
Mailcow
With over 13,000 GitHub stars and active monthly releases, Mailcow delivers a production-ready mail server infrastructure through Docker Compose orchestration of twelve integrated containers. The stack pairs Postfix as the MTA handling SMTP traffic with Dovecot for IMAP and POP3 retrieval featuring the Flatcurve full-text search engine, while Rspamd provides machine-learning-powered spam filtering with Bayesian classification, DKIM signing, and ARC support. ClamAV scans attachments for malware including Office document macro analysis via Olefy, and SOGo serves as a responsive webmail client with CalDAV, CardDAV, and Microsoft ActiveSync synchronization. The admin panel manages multiple domains, per-user spam score thresholds, quarantine review, black and whitelists, temporary spam aliases, mailbox quotas, and TLS enforcement policies for both inbound and outbound messages. Security features include two-factor authentication via TOTP, WebAuthn, and Yubikey OTP, a Fail2ban-like Netfilter integration for brute-force protection, and automatic SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration. The ACME container handles Let's Encrypt certificate generation with DNS-01 challenge support, while Postfix TLS-Pol provides MTA-STS and DANE/TLSA resolution for encrypted transport. Built-in imapsync enables periodic migration from remote mailboxes, and the REST API allows programmatic management of all server resources. MariaDB stores user data, Redis caches configuration and sessions, and Unbound provides local DNSSEC-validating DNS resolution. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. GPL-3.0 licensed.
Dockpeek
Fleet-wide container discovery, live log streaming, and Traefik reverse-proxy routing converge into Dockpeek, a lightweight Docker dashboard built for multi-host server environments. System administrators can launch web applications with one click through automatic port binding detection and integrated Traefik label parsing that extracts public routing hostnames directly from container configurations. The platform monitors multi-host environments through encrypted Docker socket proxies, letting operators inspect running containers, query published network ports, and trigger image updates from a unified control panel. Native Docker Swarm integration auto-detects active cluster managers, mapping swarm services and replicated tasks alongside standalone workloads while flagging degraded service replicas. Built-in log inspectors stream stdout and stderr outputs in real time with line-filtering controls to diagnose crashed services without opening remote SSH terminals. Operators can track image registries for newer digest tags, review pending updates across container fleets, and trigger graceful rolling container recreations directly from the dashboard. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Harbor
The first container registry to reach CNCF graduated status with over 29,000 GitHub stars since VMware open-sourced it in 2016, Harbor transforms the basic Docker Distribution into a hardened enterprise registry with vulnerability scanning, supply chain signing, multi-datacenter replication, and project-level access control out of the box. Trivy scans every pushed image against the NVD, GitHub Advisory Database, and distribution-specific vulnerability feeds, with scan-on-push policies that block deployment of images exceeding configurable severity thresholds. Artifact signing through Cosign keyless signatures and Notation enforces content trust policies ensuring only cryptographically verified images reach production clusters. Policy-based replication synchronizes images and Helm charts between Harbor instances across multiple datacenters using repository, tag, and label filters with automatic retry and bandwidth throttling — enabling hybrid-cloud and disaster-recovery topologies. The RBAC model isolates projects with per-project quotas, robot accounts for CI/CD automation, webhook notifications, and audit logging that tracks every pull, push, delete, and configuration change. LDAP, Active Directory, and OIDC authentication integrate with existing identity providers, while the proxy cache transparently caches images from Docker Hub, Quay, and other upstream registries to reduce pull latency and rate-limit exposure. The RESTful API with embedded Swagger UI, tag retention policies, garbage collection scheduling, and immutable artifact rules complete the lifecycle management. Deploy via Docker Compose or Helm Chart on Kubernetes. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache 2.0 licensed.
Tugtainer
Tugtainer delivers a visual command center for Docker environments that automates container image updates, monitors registry releases, and manages application lifecycles across multiple servers without command-line intervention. System administrators can inspect running containers across all connected hosts, trigger immediate image pulls, and configure automated cron schedules for recurring health and registry checks. Flexible update policies allow teams to flag production databases as notification-only while automatically updating stateless web applications whenever new image tags publish. When updating linked services, the platform analyzes Docker Compose project definitions and custom dependency labels to stop and restart containers in strict dependency order, preventing broken network links and orphaned volume mounts. Administrators can authenticate private container registries, browse image layers and tags, and view real-time container log streams directly within the browser console. Automated pruning jobs continuously reclaim server disk space by deleting obsolete, untagged images and dangling build layers after successful deployments. Multi-channel alerting integrates with over fifty notification providers, delivering real-time update summaries and error warnings directly to Discord, Telegram, Slack, and email webhooks. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Homepage
With over 31,000 GitHub stars and 430 contributors, Homepage has become the definitive self-hosted dashboard for homelab enthusiasts and server administrators who want a single, elegant landing page for all their services. The dashboard renders as a fully static site at build time for instant page loads, while a Node.js backend securely proxies all API requests to prevent exposing service credentials to the browser. Docker integration automatically discovers running containers through label-based configuration, populating the dashboard with service status indicators, health checks, and real-time statistics without manual URL entry. Over 100 native service widgets display live data from popular applications including Plex, Jellyfin, Radarr, Sonarr, Home Assistant, Pi-hole, Portainer, Proxmox, Nextcloud, Gitea, and dozens more, each showing relevant metrics like active streams, download queues, or system health directly on the dashboard. Information widgets provide weather forecasts, system resource utilization, search bars, and date/time displays. The layout system supports multiple columns, tabs, and custom CSS for pixel-perfect arrangement of service groups and bookmarks. Built-in authentication options include OIDC integration and password protection. Quick search functionality enables instant access to bookmarks and services with keyboard shortcuts. Internationalization covers 40+ languages with community-maintained translations. Configuration lives entirely in YAML files for version-controlled, reproducible dashboard setups. Deploy on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console for complete control. GPL-3.0 licensed with an active community and bi-weekly releases.
Dokku
With over 32,000 GitHub stars and a decade of production use since 2013, Dokku is the original self-hosted Heroku alternative — a Docker-powered PaaS that turns any single Ubuntu server into a full application platform with a simple git push. Deploy applications written in Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, PHP, Scala, and Clojure using Heroku-compatible buildpacks, Cloud Native Buildpacks via pack-cli, standard Dockerfiles, or pre-built Docker images, with automatic language and framework detection handling the rest. Every deployment runs through zero-downtime checks that health-test new containers before routing traffic via the built-in Nginx reverse proxy, which handles virtual host configuration, WebSocket proxying, and HTTP/2 support automatically. The official plugin ecosystem provides managed datastores including PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ, and Elasticsearch, each provisioned with a single CLI command and linked to apps via environment variables. Automated TLS certificates arrive through the Let's Encrypt plugin with auto-renewal, while persistent storage volumes, cron job scheduling, user ACL management, and process scaling round out the platform capabilities. The entire system is CLI-driven — no web dashboard — keeping resource overhead minimal enough to run multiple applications on a $5/month VPS. Dokku also supports Lambda function builds, custom builder plugins, and app.json-based healthcheck configuration for advanced deployment workflows. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Pulse
Pulse monitors your entire heterogeneous infrastructure from one screen: Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server, Proxmox Mail Gateway, Docker, Podman, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, TrueNAS SCALE/CORE, VMware vSphere, and standalone Linux/Windows/macOS machines. The Go binary embeds a SolidJS/TypeScript frontend, delivering WebSocket-driven dashboards with sub-second metric updates on port 7655. A unified agent auto-detects Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, and Proxmox on each host without manual configuration and self-updates silently, while Proxmox nodes need only API credentials with zero agent installation. Smart alerts use adaptive hysteresis-based thresholds to prevent notification floods, pushing to Discord, Slack, Telegram, Teams, email, ntfy.sh, Gotify, and generic webhooks with per-resource overrides. The standout feature is Pulse Patrol: scheduled AI health checks running every ten minutes to seven days using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, or local Ollama models. Patrol catches silent backup failures, capacity creep, restart loops, unhealthy containers, and clock drift that dashboards miss when nobody is watching. Platform-specific views render Proxmox nodes, Ceph clusters, Docker Compose projects, Kubernetes workloads, TrueNAS pools, and vSphere VMs in familiar layouts. OIDC, SSO, and SAML authentication with credential encryption at rest secures access. 6,500+ stars and 441 releases since February 2025. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Dockge
Created by the developer behind Uptime Kuma and carrying over 23,000 GitHub stars, Dockge brings the same clean, reactive design philosophy to Docker Compose stack management with a web interface that makes Portainer's compose handling feel like editing YAML in a terminal over SSH. The interactive editor provides syntax highlighting, inline validation, and a live preview of your compose.yaml files while keeping every stack stored as a standard file on disk in /opt/stacks by default, meaning you can seamlessly switch between the web UI and the docker compose CLI without lock-in or proprietary database formats. Real-time WebSocket updates stream pull progress, container start/stop transitions, and build output directly to the browser with no polling delays. The built-in web terminal opens a shell session inside any running container for quick debugging, while the docker-run-to-compose converter transforms single-container run commands into proper compose.yaml definitions with one click. Multi-agent support introduced in version 1.4.0 connects multiple Docker hosts to a single Dockge dashboard, enabling centralized management of stacks distributed across different servers. Image update detection shows which stacks have newer versions available, and one-click updates pull the latest images and recreate containers without manual intervention. The stack is a single Docker container running on Node.js with Socket.IO for reactivity and stores no external database. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MIT licensed.
Nexus Repository
Trusted by millions of developers and integrated into CI/CD pipelines at organizations worldwide, Sonatype Nexus Repository is the industry-standard binary artifact repository manager that stores, organizes, and distributes software components across every major package ecosystem. Community Edition supports over 20 formats including Maven for Java builds, npm for JavaScript packages, Docker for container images, PyPI for Python libraries, NuGet for .NET assemblies, Helm for Kubernetes charts, Go modules, RubyGems, Cargo for Rust crates, Conda for data science environments, APT for Debian packages, Yum for RPM distributions, and Hugging Face for AI/ML models. Three repository types serve different needs: hosted repositories store internally-produced artifacts, proxy repositories cache remote registries like Maven Central, npmjs.org, and Docker Hub reducing bandwidth and improving build reliability, and group repositories aggregate multiple hosted and proxy repositories behind a single URL endpoint. The web UI provides component browsing and search, repository configuration, blob store management with configurable cleanup policies, and direct artifact upload via drag-and-drop. Role-based access control enforces fine-grained permissions per repository with configurable security realms, while the comprehensive REST API enables automated repository provisioning, component management, and integration with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, and Azure DevOps. External PostgreSQL database support enables Kubernetes deployments with improved backup, restore, and horizontal scaling capabilities. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Eclipse Public License 1.0 licensed.
Yacht
Docker deployment reimagined as an app store: browse a visual catalog of applications, click to deploy with sensible defaults, and customize ports, volumes, and environment variables only when you need to. Point Yacht at any Portainer-compatible template JSON URL and it parses every application into a browsable, searchable interface with pre-configured settings ready for one-click launch. The template framework is fully decentralized — anyone can host template files on GitHub, a personal server, or any URL, creating a community-driven ecosystem of deployment packages without central gatekeeping. Template variables prefixed with ! automatically substitute server-level settings, so !config resolves to your configured path across every deployment without repetitive manual editing. The Python backend handles container lifecycle — start, stop, restart, kill, removal — while streaming real-time logs, providing browser-based shell access, and monitoring resource statistics through the Vuetify dashboard. Docker Compose stacks sit alongside individual containers in the same management interface. Advanced editing lets you modify port mappings, volumes, environment variables, and restart policies on running containers without redeployment. The develop branch introduces agent-managed remote host support for expanding management to additional Docker hosts. Authentication can be disabled for environments behind external proxies like Authelia or Traefik forward auth. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. CC-BY-4.0 licensed.
Dockhand
Dockhand is a Docker management platforms, offering a modern alternative to Portainer with free OIDC SSO and vulnerability scanning that competitors gate behind paid tiers. Real-time container management provides start, stop, restart, and remove operations with live resource monitoring across CPU, memory, and network usage on a dashboard with real-time metrics. The visual Docker Compose editor enables stack creation and modification with syntax highlighting, while Git integration deploys stacks directly from repositories with webhooks and auto-sync for GitOps workflows. Vulnerability scanning powered by Grype and Trivy analyzes container images against CVE databases, with configurable auto-update scheduling that can trigger updates based on vulnerability severity criteria. The Hawser Go agent enables management of remote Docker hosts in Standard mode for LAN environments or Edge mode using outbound WebSocket connections for hosts behind NAT, firewalls, or dynamic IPs without exposing inbound ports. Interactive terminal sessions provide shell access into running containers, while the file browser enables uploading, downloading, and editing files directly within containers. Image management includes registry browsing, pull operations, and layer inspection alongside network and volume administration. The security-focused architecture builds its own OS layer from scratch using Wolfi packages via apko with every package explicitly declared. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. BSL 1.1 licensed, converting to Apache 2.0 in 2029.