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Open Source Alternatives to Heroku

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What is Heroku?

Heroku is A cloud platform as a service (PaaS) that enables developers to build, run, and operate applications entirely in the cloud.. There are currently 5 open-source alternatives to Heroku, with a combined total of 53.8k GitHub stars. The most common language among these projects is Go.

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Dokku
Dokkudokku/dokku

A Docker-powered mini-Heroku PaaS for building and managing application lifecycles on your own servers.

31.8k2.0kShell
2 days ago
caprover
caprovercaprover/caprover

An easy-to-use, self-hosted PaaS platform that automates Docker, nginx, and SSL for deploying web apps and databases.

15.0k976TypeScript
11 days ago
Empire
Empireremind101/empire

A Heroku-like Platform as a Service (PaaS) built on top of Amazon EC2 Container Service (ECS) for deploying and managing containerized microservices.

2.7k156Go
2 years ago
engine
engineQovery/engine

An open-source abstraction layer library that simplifies application deployment on AWS, GCP, Azure, and other cloud providers.

2.4k81Rust
2 days ago
rack
rackconvox/rack

A private PaaS that runs in your AWS account for maximum privacy and minimum upkeep.

1.9k177Go
2 days ago
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