Who's Using Dokploy? Share Your Story!

[Siumauricio]

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Hey everyone,

We're always looking to improve Dokploy and make it the best deployment tool out there. A huge part of that is understanding who's using Dokploy and how it's helping you. We'd love to hear your experiences, learn about your projects, and get your valuable insights!

If you're using Dokploy, please consider sharing a bit about your setup and journey in the comments below. It's incredibly helpful for us and also a cool way for the community to see what everyone's building!

Tell Us About Your Dokploy Setup:

To help us get a clear picture, please try to answer these questions:

1. What were you using before Dokploy? (e.g., direct SSH, other CI/CD tools, vercel, heroku, manual deployments, etc.)
2. Roughly how many services have you created with Dokploy? (e.g., 5-10, 20+, 1-2, etc.)
3. Your Business/Project:

• Name: (e.g., "My Awesome App," "Creative Solutions LLC")
• Link: (Optional, but great if you want to share!)
• Brief Description: What does your service/business do?
• Contact: (e.g., GitHub handle, email, Twitter)

4. What's your favorite thing about Dokploy right now?
5. What do you think Dokploy needs to become a true "all-in-one" tool for you? (Be specific!)
6. Share your setup: If you use physical servers and want to share some images that would be great).

[petebytes]

Hey I love Dokploy!

1 - I was using Heroku, then Dokku, tried Coolify and settled on Dokploy

2 - 20+ services

3 - Apsion - solo creator building applications that solve problems for me or someone I known.

https://barkfm.com Custom audio solutions to help dogs manage anxiety through music and sound effects.

https://debtmage.com Private, zero-cost debt elimination companion using strategic financial planning and encrypted data processing.

https://staticmirage.com Transform static product photos into sales-boosting animations for e-commerce sellers. Free and easy to use.

https://calm478.com 4-7-8 Breathing Technique for instant calm

https://cravecatcher.com (in progress) Location-based food discovery platform helping users find their favorite dining options nearby.

github - petebytes

4 - My favorite thing is the ability to git push to main and have it deployed. But would not have selected Dokploy if it was difficult to use.

5 - Full backup, restore and or migration capabilities

6 - 2 servers one for Dokploy the other runs the applications (using Contabo)

[Paillat-dev]

1. First was using portainer with docker swarm, then tried coolify for a couple of months but was disappointed by the lack of swarm support, which made me try dokploy, and it's just amazing.
2. 20+ services between 3 dokploy "runtimes"
3. • Myself and friends - hosting a couple of websites for me and friends, status pages etc... - [email protected]
   • https://nicebots.xyz - Discord bots for various needs as well as custom discord bots creation and/or hosting, almost entirely running on dokploy except a couple of services I'm still waiting to migrate because I'm lazy - [email protected]
   • https://transcribethings.com - still WIP - AI transcription service - [email protected]
4. Its good (at least it fully works) docker swarm support
5. • Even better swarm integration:
     • Automatic cleanup on all swarm nodes
     • swarm one click stacks
     • swarm features [placement constraints, etc...] directly in the ui and not as json settings
     • support for running traefik on multiple nodes
     • dokploy HA [HA for dokploy itself, e.g. ability to change to another manager node]
   • Ability to use private images in docker composes
   • Support for adding traefik middlewares directly in the ui (and maybe UI settings for adding things like IP ratelimits) and some security features built in like modsecurity and others for domains
6. Running on Infomaniak Public Cloud (openstack), 3x (1x Dokploy node [1vcpu 2 gb ram], 1-2x worker nodes [2vcpus 4 gb ram])

Note: I do not use dokploy to build my images, instead build them trough github actions (and thus don't use the preview deployments feature)

[nazimboudeffa]

1. I was using directly a VPS via ssh, then moved to Vercel and have seen the problem of taking the basic plan as they may take more then simplys 20$, the tested Coolify and landed in DokPloy after two years of testings
2. I think I have about 10 services running actually
3. I try to focus on neofreelance.com as the main project but I test many things, it uses Next.js and MongoDB, it's a job board where I want to develop donations, you can contact me via GitHub or LinkedIn, I try to not shitpost a lot
4. Deploying Next.js apps with MongoDB, haven't tryied Postgres yet, alos I've tested a project with StreamLit, after some researchs and discussion on the Discord, I was able to deploy the app with Docker very easily (still digging into it) all my projects are mainely open source on GitHub you can take a look at it somewehre on my profile
5. Actually I think everything is good in DokPloy, I am very satisfyied
6. I simply use a VPS from OVH

[sizoune]

I’m not originally from a server or deployment background — I come from Android development. But because of my job in government, I’ve had to dive into the full-stack world (using JavaScript).

Here’s my experience:

Before Dokploy, I usually deployed my apps manually, using Nginx, Nodemon, and that’s it. Afterward, I discovered Coolify, but I found its UI a bit old-fashioned, and it took me a long time to learn.

Right now, I have 15+ services running on Dokploy, spread across 3 VPS (1 main server, 2 remote servers).

Since I work in the government sector, I usually build apps based on government client requests. All of my apps are available only in Indonesian (ID). Examples:

CCTV

Homecare

Smart Library

My favorite part of Dokploy is the automatic database backups and the ability to add remote servers — I don’t need to manually install Docker, Node, etc., on each one. I also love the templates, which really help speed up my work.

For me, Dokploy is already good enough and fits my current needs.

I currently manage 3 VPS (1 main, 2 remote), but I can easily add more if needed.

[TorstenDittmann]

What were you using before Dokploy? Was using Render/fly.io and then moved to manual deployments using GitHub Actions + Docker Context with Swarm

Roughly how many services have you created with Dokploy? around 20

Your Business/Project:

try-module.cloud

• Link: https://try-module.cloud
• Description: Preview, test, and share npm packages instantly. try-module.cloud lets you install npm packages from pull requests and manage private packages. (Could be used to create automatic previews for Dokploy/cli 😉)
• Contact: x.com/DittmannTorsten

launch.css

• Link: https://launch-css.dev
• Description: A classless CSS framework built for speed
• Contact: x.com/DittmannTorsten

and a bunch of more things.

We also are exploring it to provide dev and qa environments over at https://github.com/appwrite

What's your favorite thing about Dokploy right now?

The simplicity. Coolify tends to overwhelm users with configuration options.

What do you think Dokploy needs to become a true "all-in-one" tool for you? Better preview deployments. Things like:

• container sleep after inactivity
• no fixed amount of previews

Share your setup: 2 servers on Hetzner, one primary node and one remote server.

[Hussseinkizz]

Hey I use it with over 10 services and adding more, before I was using vps then used coolify but it was so buggy, I like a stable server and that new features are always tested, but I like dokploy it's at least a little more stable than coolify, wish could customize the login page though to show my company etc just like in dashboard but otherwise it's great and I think i haven't even touched 50% of it's power!

[Hussseinkizz]

Also wish I can cancel scheduled builds, cancel running ones and so on...

[nikodunk]

I love Dokploy! I use it to host the backend services for Daily Optimist and am evaluating it to use it professionally to deploy services more easily at Pila Energy.

[ev-turenko]

We use it in the company where I work.

We were choosing between Dokploy, Coolify and Caprover. After all we chose Dokploy due to it's lightweight nature.

Though, Traefik doesn't work well for us and after struggling a while with it we chose to switch off Traefik and continue this way: Dokploy + Nginx Proxy Manager.

For now we use Dokploy to manage the infrastructure for our complex mobile apps and web crawlers.

[corysus]

We use it in the company where I work.

We were choosing between Dokploy, Coolify and Caprover. After all we chose Dokploy due to it's lightweight nature.

Though, Traefik doesn't work well for us and after struggling a while with it we chose to switch off Traefik and continue this way: Dokploy + Nginx Proxy Manager.

For now we use Dokploy to manage the infrastructure for our complex mobile apps and web crawlers.

Hi @ev-turenko , can you share some information/tips on how you managed to set up Dokploy with NPM?

[ev-turenko]

@corysus Hi! I will share it a little bit later today or tomorrow, cause of large being loaded with tasks, just letting you know I won't ignore you :)

[sancho1952007]

Hello, I'm Sancho Godinho 👋

I use Dokploy to host my sites on SG Apps.

Here are some cool sites I'm running using dokploy on my server:

1. Smart Notes - A free cloud based notepad with rich text.
2. Public Chat - A free chat app where everyone of the world can chat together on a single topic.
3. Ton of other tools like self hosted analytics and s3 storage.

By the way, I have a lot of idle resources on my server. If you’re interested in using them, feel free to reach out to me via email (sancho at sg-app.com). I can host your project at a very reasonable cost. I’m also happy to host a few free open-source static-website projects (shouldn’t have any paywalls) with low-medium website traffic for free in exchange for a credit on your homepage and repository. It's my way of giving back to the open-source community.

What can be improved in Dokploy?

1. A global backup option that backs up everything including the volume data and database of all containers. It's a headache to manually backup each volume and database.
2. A feature where inactive services can go into sleep mode to save server resources on sites that don't receive much traffic.

[Oseryx]

Hello I'm Anis,

I'm student launching a startup with 7 other colleagues.

I use Dokploy to host all of our internal services, we have:

• Keycloack for managing all members and connected to all other services
• VPN, everything is accessible through a vpn only (headscale)
• Pihole DNS
• Mail server (stalwarts)
• Postgres databases used for development
• Outline for internal documentation

There are more services but they're not worth mentioning, a total of 15 running services.

What can be improved in Dokploy ?

1. Support OIDC authentication, it is better for teams and companies in general who'd want to use Dokploy, to have once central auth service like keycloack or authentik.
2. Support Kubernetes, as of now only Docker swarm is supported which is fine for projects that are not massive, but in the long run it would be good to have kubernetes as an option.
3. Have secrets, something similar to Github Secrets or how any platform handles it. Put the secret value once and never reveal it again.

What do I love about Dokploy ?

It's simple and made with Next.js, I can tinker with it if I need to, the overall experience is awesome, I didn't need the documentation much to navigate my way through it.

My setup: A VPS on DigitalOcean (primary), and a private machine at home (soon to be backup), they're connected together with the VPN.