Dokku — Open source alternative to Heroku

Dokku is an open source alternative to Heroku, documented here: https://dokku.com/

The UCSB CoE ECI group is piloting support for Dokku during S23. This set of pages describes how to use that resource.

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Table of contents

• Deploying a Simple App
• Logging In
• Deploying an App
• Getting Started
• Deploying an App from a private repo
• Config Vars Frontend
• Dokku: Deploy Problems
• Dokku: Postgres Database: Backup/Restore
• Dokku: Postgres Database: Command Line
• Enabling HTTPS
• Environment Variables
• Logs
• MongoDB Database
• Postgres Database
• Preparing Your App
• Redeploy App
• Staff Info

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