# Dokku

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dokku/  
**Website:** https://dokku.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Dokku is an open-source Docker-powered self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service that helps you build and manage the lifecycle of applications from initial push to scaling out. Often described as "the smallest PaaS implementation you've ever seen" and a self-hosted mini-Heroku, Dokku turns a single Linux host (or a multi-host scheduler such as K3s or Nomad) into a git-push deployment target that builds applications from Heroku-compatible buildpacks, Cloud Native Buildpacks, Nixpacks, Railpack, Dockerfiles, or pre-built Docker images. Dokku is MIT licensed, written primarily in Bash, and maintained by the Dokku organization on GitHub since 2013. It ships an extensive plugin ecosystem covering data stores (Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch, ClickHouse, Meilisearch, Typesense), TLS via Let's Encrypt, HTTP basic auth, maintenance mode, redirects, schedulers for Docker, K3s and Nomad, multiple HTTP proxies (Nginx, HAProxy, Caddy, Traefik, OpenResty), CI integrations, and an official GitHub Action. Dokku's primary interface is the `dokku` CLI invoked over SSH; there is no first-party public HTTP REST API in core (the historical `dokku-api` Ruby wrapper is archived and unmaintained).

## Kin Score — 13.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 28.6 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Dokku Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Tags

Platform-as-a-Service, Self-Hosted, Docker, Containers, Buildpacks, Deployment, DevOps, Heroku Alternative, Open-Source, Git Push Deploy, Kubernetes, Nomad, K3s, CLI, Plugins

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dokku/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.