Comparing selfhosted Heroku alternatives

• nix

  370 10,814 10.0 C++

  Nix, the purely functional package manager

  

There's a bit of a steep learning curve to it, but NixOS does exactly this. You can setup podman or docker backends, then build or deploy containers declaratively and the system itself creates a systemd service for you.

• Dokku

  179 25,947 9.9 Shell

  A docker-powered PaaS that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications

  

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• guix

  48 271 3.5 Scheme

  Read-only mirror of GNU Guix — pull requests are ignored, see https://guix.gnu.org/en/manual/en/guix.html#Submitting-Patches instead (by guix-mirror)

  

NixOS is a general purpose OS and doesn't have any derivatives that I'm aware of. There's also Guix which is very similar to NixOS, but I'm also unsure whether it has any derivatives. I personally use a CapRover container running in NixOS and it's been a solid experience.

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