15 engineers on Hacker News describe using Dokku first-hand: 8 endorse it, 3 regret it, 1 are mixed.
“I have been using a software called dokku for about six years. It's like Heroku, but you self host.”
endorse · personal · 6 yr · Lukas_Skywalker · 2021-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I can't praise Dokku enough. I am coming up to two years of running all my infra on it, not one problem”
endorse · personal · 2 yr · PinkPigeon · 2021-04-26 · source ↗ · wrong label?“dokku is really nice, but it was/is some work. I was hoping for almost no sysadmin work but that didn't happen.”
mixed · production · jdance · 2020-02-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we run everything with Dokku. I was skeptical at first because it made initial deployments a bit of a pain, but I've been converted.”
endorse · production · 52-6F-62 · 2019-08-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we spent 5 years on Dokku[1], which is freaking fantastic project and was for the most part more than enough to meet our needs.”
endorse · production · 5 yr · Benjamin_Dobell · 2019-04-20 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I started using Dokku in production a few years ago.”
endorse · production · 3 yr · Lukas_Skywalker · 2018-11-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run Dokku because it's absolutely dead simple. It's not the fastest nor is it particularly scalable, but it works.”
endorse · production · SkyPuncher · 2018-09-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used to love dokku until I had 7-minute deployment times for an average application in production.”
regret · production · joshmn · 2017-12-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We moved to Dokku and are really happy with it. It's not H/A but it's mega simple and it works really well.”
endorse · production · dabeeeenster · 2017-06-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Everyone running hobby projects should be using Dokku. It's very easy to get started and can replace Heroku in many cases.”
endorse · personal · hackerboos · 2016-11-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I just generally got the impression that it wasn't ready to be used in production. I repeatedly ran into snags or bugs”
regret · personal · kevinflo · 2014-10-03 · source ↗ · wrong label?“some of the containers crashed every now and then and did NOT restart - a manual intervention was necessary.”
regret · production · 0.5 yr · wxm · 2013-12-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we moved to Hetzner (https://hetzner.com/) and threw Dokku on top.”
neutral · production · awsidiqi · 2024-02-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I've been a minor contributor to Dokku and Convox, using both in prod on a few different projects.”
neutral · production · mr_luc · 2016-10-14 · source ↗ · wrong label?