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Top 23 docker-compose Open-Source Projects
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coolify
An open-source, self-hostable PaaS alternative to Vercel, Heroku & Netlify that lets you easily deploy static sites, databases, full-stack applications and 280+ one-click services on your own servers.
Project mention: How I built my own Railway at just just $2/mo with 4 CPU cores and 7.7 GB of RAM; INSANE! | dev.to | 2026-07-03Coolify puts those tasks behind a web interface. It is an open-source, self-hosted platform for deploying applications and databases to infrastructure you control.
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Project mention: I ran 29 real docker-compose projects on Apple's container runtime. Here's what broke | dev.to | 2026-07-07
Instead of guessing, I measured. I took Docker's own awesome-compose repository — the official collection of sample compose projects (WordPress, React+Express+Mongo, Spring+Postgres, Prometheus+Grafana, …) — and ran 29 of its samples, unmodified, on Apple container. An alphabetical slice, no cherry-picking: every sample from nextcloud-postgres through wordpress-mysql.
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Project mention: My homelab stack in 2026: what runs, why, and how it all connects | dev.to | 2026-06-20
Portainer is the visual management layer. I use it for quick container inspection, pulling logs, and managing stacks without SSHing in every time. It doesn't replace Prometheus, they have different jobs. Prometheus tells me what happened and when; Portainer tells me what's running right now and lets me poke at it.
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# Docker installation (general commands for Debian/Ubuntu) sudo apt update sudo apt install apt-transport-https ca-certificates curl software-properties-common -y curl -fsSL https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu/gpg | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg echo "deb [arch=$(dpkg --print-architecture) signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/docker-archive-keyring.gpg] https://download.docker.com/linux/ubuntu $(lsb_release -cs) stable" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/docker.list > /dev/null sudo apt update sudo apt install docker-ce docker-ce-cli containerd.io -y # Docker Compose installation (check for the latest version) LATEST_COMPOSE=$(curl -s https://api.github.com/repos/docker/compose/releases/latest | grep 'tag_name' | cut -d\" -f4) sudo curl -L "https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/download/${LATEST_COMPOSE}/docker-compose-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)" -o /usr/local/bin/docker-compose sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/docker-compose docker-compose --version
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Project mention: What Active Rubyists Are Using in 2026: A Maintainer's Read of the RubyKaigi Survey | dev.to | 2026-07-03
Lima / Colima: ~35
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Project mention: Self-Hosted VPN in 2026: WireGuard, Headscale, NetBird and More Compared | dev.to | 2026-05-31
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Project mention: dockge VS arcane - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/dockge | 2026-06-11
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Project mention: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-11
Winboat should be able to run them: https://www.winboat.app/
As far as compatibility goes, OnlyOffice is fairly good at it, more geared towards MS-compatibility than LibreOffice, which is more of its own thing (and pretty good at that).
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Self-Hosting-Guide
Self-Hosting Guide. Learn all about locally hosting (on premises & private web servers) and managing software applications by yourself or your organization. Including Cloud, LLMs, WireGuard, Automation, Home Assistant, and Networking.
"Self-Hosting Guide" - GitHub repository by mikeroyal documenting self-hosted alternatives to cloud services. Available at: https://github.com/mikeroyal/Self-Hosting-Guide
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Project mention: How to Self-Host Your Own Email Server (And Stop Depending on Third Parties) | dev.to | 2026-04-08
I went with Mailcow — it's a dockerized mail server suite that bundles Postfix, Dovecot, Rspamd, SOGo, and a web UI. There are other solid options like Mail-in-a-Box or rolling your own with Postfix + Dovecot, but Mailcow hits the sweet spot between control and convenience.
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Laradock
Full PHP development environment for Docker. Run Laravel, Symfony, WordPress, Drupal, Magento, CodeIgniter, Yii, Lumen, Phalcon, CakePHP or any PHP project with 70+ pre-configured services: Nginx, Apache, PHP-FPM, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Elasticsearch & more.
Project mention: Dockerizing Laravel with Laradock: A Complete Local Development Setup Guide | dev.to | 2025-07-28📦 Step 2: Clone Laradock Clone the Laradock project to your machine: git clone https://github.com/Laradock/laradock.git
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self-hosted
Sentry, feature-complete and packaged up for low-volume deployments and proofs-of-concept
Deploy Sentry self-hosted using their official guide
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Testcontainers
Testcontainers is a Java library that supports JUnit tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container.
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boilerplates
Create reusable templates and turn them into configurable workloads for homelabs and self-hosted infrastructure. Free and Open-Source.
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Project mention: Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-09-12
Not who you asked, but I self-host some non-critical mail domains using Mailu[0], which is a set of docker containers. It's been fairly low maintenance. Ease of setup depends on your technical knowledge, but if I can do it, and you're on HN asking the question, you'll probably manage.
[0]: https://mailu.io/
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Project mention: dockge VS arcane - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/dockge | 2026-06-11
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How my mindset changed :
- What's Docker?
- wow Docker is so convenient
- hmmm all that convenience is creating new problems
- is Docker really open?
- What's Podman?
- Ugh Podman is a great idea but does not work
- Is Podman working better now?
- ... kinda, just for testing on my machine
- wow... Podman works just as well as Docker in 99.99% of my cases
... so yes except for the last .01% (e.g. rather niche https://github.com/containers/podman-compose/issues/792 ) it has now become my default.
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example-voting-app
Example distributed app composed of multiple containers for Docker, Compose, Swarm, and Kubernetes
We will deploy famous exmaple voting app from the https://github.com/dockersamples/example-voting-app. We will just deploy the manifests and not look into building the docker images at this moment.
NOTE:
The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
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Index
What are some of the best open-source docker-compose projects? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | coolify | 57,852 |
| 2 | awesome-compose | 45,742 |
| 3 | Portainer | 37,880 |
| 4 | Docker Compose | 37,736 |
| 5 | colima | 29,840 |
| 6 | wg-easy | 26,296 |
| 7 | dockge | 23,710 |
| 8 | winboat | 21,894 |
| 9 | Self-Hosting-Guide | 21,525 |
| 10 | vulhub | 20,920 |
| 11 | docker-elk | 18,374 |
| 12 | Mailcow | 13,073 |
| 13 | Laradock | 12,657 |
| 14 | kompose | 10,556 |
| 15 | self-hosted | 9,438 |
| 16 | Testcontainers | 8,675 |
| 17 | CompreFace | 8,023 |
| 18 | boilerplates | 7,859 |
| 19 | Mailu | 7,341 |
| 20 | Compose-Examples | 7,300 |
| 21 | arcane | 6,193 |
| 22 | podman-compose | 6,140 |
| 23 | example-voting-app | 5,756 |
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