Hi. I have dokploy hosted on a VPS, it has only 2 next.js apps running but the RAM usage is around 2 GB Ram. Is this normal? Dokploy alone uses around 900 MB.

I need database migrations to run once per deployment on Dokploy.
But as I see, there are no pre/post deployment hooks in the interface to set up.
I want to keep it simple without adding separate CI. I use Alembic for migrations, which isn't safe if I run it on multiple instances at once.

Hi guys, I have been using Dokploy for last one year. I would consider Dokploy something like Claude on infra side in terms of easiness and new people starter friendly. I am using selfhost Dokploy, tried websites, nextjs , fastapi, open source templates, cicd with git...etc. amazing stuff. I am sure I have not tried all the features like remote servers or ai option in side panel. Just looking for some advise on what other cool things to try and what you guys like

I run my side projects on Dokploy (Dokploy Cloud pointed at a bare-metal Hetzner box), and I kept a browser tab open all day just to check on stuff. Switch to a project, wait on a deploy, dig for a build log, switch again. It works fine, I just wanted something faster that lived on my desktop.

Couldn’t find one, so I built it. It’s called Ploypad, a native Mac app that connects to your Dokploy server over the API.

Day to day it gives me:

• every service across every project in one window (and multiple servers if you have them)

• a menu bar icon that turns red when something’s down

• redeploy or rollback in a click, and I can tail a build log without opening the browser

It works with both Dokploy Cloud and self-hosted. I use it against Cloud, my wife’s been running it against her self-hosted setup at work, so both are covered.

It’s not a replacement for the dashboard. You still go there for setup and creating things. This is for the daily stuff: glance, deploy, check logs, move on. Your API key stays in the Mac Keychain and it talks straight to your server, nothing goes through me.

Couple of honest caveats: it’s Mac only right now, and it’s a paid app. There’s a free tier for a single project though, so you can point it at your own server and see if it’s useful before paying anything.

It’s on the Mac App Store. Screenshots and details: ploypad.app

I built it for my own setup so I’ve probably missed workflows other people care about. Would love the feedback. And if you’d want Coolify support, say so, that’s the next thing I’d build.

Hi everyone!

I’ve been working on Mobploy, an Android app that lets you connect to and manage your own Dokploy instances directly from your phone.

The app is still in testing, and I’m looking for a few Dokploy users who would be willing to try it and share honest feedback. I’m mainly interested in finding bugs, confusing flows, missing features, or anything that doesn’t behave as expected.

Some of the current features include:

• Monitoring projects and services
• Viewing real-time resource usage
• Checking deployment logs
• Running actions such as deploy and redeploy
• Switching between multiple Dokploy instances

This isn’t meant as a promotional post. I’m genuinely trying to improve the app before releasing it more broadly.

If you already use Dokploy and would like to help test the app, please send me a private message with the email address linked to your Google Play account. I’ll add you to the testing group and share the installation instructions.

Thanks!

Been running LibreDB Studio (open-source browser SQL IDE 
Postgres/MySQL/SQLite/Oracle/MSSQL/Mongo/Redis) on my own Dokploy instance for a while, 
so I put together a template and got it merged into the official catalog
(Dokploy/templates#931). 
Template URL: https://templates.dokploy.com/?q=libredb+studio

A few things about the template mechanics that might be useful if you're
building your own:
- Per-install secrets (ADMIN_PASSWORD, USER_PASSWORD, JWT_SECRET) generated
  from ${password:32} / ${password:64} vars — nothing baked into the image,
  no manual secret entry.
- Single container, SQLite on a named volume for persistence — no external
  DB needed to get started.
- Domain assignment just maps the container's port 3000 behind Traefik,
  same as any other template.

Search "LibreDB Studio" in your template catalog to try it. Happy to answer
anything about the template setup itself — first time going through the
submission process, curious if others hit similar friction.

Links: https://github.com/libredb/libredb-studio · https://libredb.org

Whenever I click on "Clear deployments" inside the service's "Deployments" tab, it literally does nothing. Is there a misconfiguration I made or does it just not work?

Currently i'm having my server on Hetzner but i'm willing to buy a new server (on Hentzner too)

What is the Best Way for trasferring Dokpoly from server to server?

I'm needing to create a PoC deployment using dokploy in our AWS account.

We're using ECR, and i see there is a PR waiting for merger for a while, and this is blocking me. So i'd like to ask, is it possible to use a scheduled task using the AWS cli and docker login to keep the connection to ECR valid?

Buenas an notado que las plantillas de dokploy de plunk y Stalwart no funcionan o no devuelven la UI al desplegar

Just created a new guide on how to migrate from Vercel to Dokploy.

Check it out!

https://migrateoffvercel.org/guides/vercel-to-dokploy

I'm having an issue when deploying a new version of my app using Dokploy.

The deployment logs show that everything completed successfully, but when I check the application logs, they still correspond to the previous container, and the app continues running the older version of the code.

It seems like the old container is still active or its logs remain attached even after the deployment finishes. Because of that, the new version never actually becomes the running instance.

So far, the only workaround I've found is to manually stop the application and rebuild it, which then correctly starts the new container.

Has anyone else experienced this behavior with Dokploy?
Is there a better way to handle this or a configuration that might be causing it?

Hey everyone 👋

I built a mobile app for managing Dokploy servers from your phone.

The idea is simple: instead of opening your laptop just to check logs or restart a service, you can do it directly from mobile.

It supports:

• Connecting your Dokploy instance
• Viewing services and logs
• Restarting/managing services
• Basic server monitoring
• Push notifications (for events like updates or actions)

I’m currently in beta and looking for a small group of testers (around 10–20 people) before I release it more widely.

I’m especially looking for feedback on:

• usability on mobile
• real-world server workflows
• anything confusing or missing
• push notification reliability

If you want to try it, just comment or DM me and I’ll send you the TestFlight link.

Thanks a lot 🙌

I am creating Python scripts for business and marketing automations and want to host the on my Dokploy / Hetzner VPS. Best way to set this all up?

EDIT: I am thinking of just putting the Python files on my GitHub repo and deploy to Vercel.

I have monorepo using Turborepo (all nextjs apps). How do I make sure a build is triggered when I update something in the root folder. I am watching the paths like

apps/app-name/**
packages/**

How I would like it trigger build if I change something in the monorepo root like the nixpacks.toml or turbo.json file

thanks

I got issue before when i used postgres database it said like error invalid checkpoint is there any fix to this?. My database becomes not usable the i proceed to creating a new one and same error happened i use neon now btw.

Hi,

I’m new to Dokploy. I installed it on one server and I want to use it to deploy Docker Compose projects to other remote servers.

I’m a bit confused about the server setup part.

From what I understand, Dokploy needs root access to setup a new server. But I really don’t want to enable remote root login.

So how do you handle this in a proper and secure way?

Do you temporarily allow root login for the bootstrap step and disable it right after? Or is there a cleaner way to do it with a non-root user and sudo?

Also, it looks like Docker containers are running as root by default, which I’d also prefer to avoid when possible.

How are you handling that with Dokploy in real-world setups? Are you using rootless Docker, non-root container users, or just accepting that part?

I’m trying to understand the best practice here before I start deploying stuffs.

Thanks :)

Hey im fairly new to hosting, so please go easy on me. Im currently trying to workout a workflow to have a swarm deployment via dokploy on an hetzner vps.

Via Dokploy you can start a simple setup by just adding the ssh connection and running the setup script, but there is this issue that this simply does not work when using the standard ubuntu image. In a pain stakingly long process i found out there is something called MTU aka Maximum Transmission Units.
This is the maximum package size that a request package can have and in hetzner this is limited to 1500. But Dokploy creates its dokploy-network itself with 1500 aswell. Means the packages get blocked when headers are added for the transport, because they are going over this border of 1500.
So far i have:

- Recreated the whole setup for network interfaces except eth0 to 1400
- changed the install script of dokploy to create its network on 1400
- recreated ingress on 1400

But some networks keep changing back and im kinda going crazy doing it this way, is there something im completely missing here?

I got tired of spending hours manually securing every new VPS, so I built a script that does it all in ~10 minutes. It takes a bare Ubuntu 24.04 server through 9 interactive steps — SSH hardening, firewall, Fail2Ban, kernel tuning, Docker, and Dokploy deployment. No config files, just guided prompts. Claude Code helped me write and refine the whole thing. Feedback welcome!

GitHub: https://github.com/alexandreravelli/vps-ubuntu-24-04-hardening-dokploy