Dokku Has a Free API — Heres How to Build Your Own Mini-Heroku in 5 Minutes

Dokku is the smallest PaaS implementation — a Docker-powered Heroku alternative in about 200 lines of Bash. Git push to deploy, buildpacks, and plugins. Why Dokku? Heroku workflow : git push dokku main to deploy Buildpacks : Auto-detect Node, Python, Ruby, Go, etc. Plugins : PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Let's Encrypt Tiny footprint : Runs on 512MB RAM Free : Open source Battle-tested : 10+ years, 25K+ GitHub stars Install wget -NP . https://dokku.com/install/v0.34.4/bootstrap.sh sudo DOKKU_TAG = v0.34.4 bash bootstrap.sh Create and Deploy # On server dokku apps:create my-app # On your laptop git remote add dokku dokku@server:my-app git push dokku main Dokku auto-detects your language and builds. Add Database # Install PostgreSQL plugin sudo dokku plugin:install https://github.com/dokku/dokku-postgres.git # Create database dokku postgres:create my-db # Link to app (auto-sets DATABASE_URL) dokku postgres:link my-db my-app Environment Variables dokku config:set my-app SECRET_KEY = abc123 N