Tutorials¶

Inter-app Communication in Dokku ¶

Dokku supports cross-container and cross-app communication via custom docker networks

Connecting to network processes running directly on the host ¶

Dokku supports connecting deployed applications to processes that expose network connections on the host.

Deploying to a Dokku-managed k3s cluster ¶

Dokku natively supports both single and multi-server deployments. This tutorial shows how to manage both with k3s under the hood.

Using Websockets with Nginx ¶

Running a sidecar process to serve websocket requests can be done by following this tutorial.

Deploying an image without a registry ¶

Deploying an image does not always require a remote registry, as shown in this short tutorial.

Creating a Datastore plugin ¶

Ever wanted to write a datastore plugin? This tutorial shows how we create official datastore plugins.

Automating Dokku Application Setup with Ansible ¶

This tutorial goes through the process of provisioning an app via ansible.

Run on an External Volume ¶

In order to leverage cloud-provider facilities like attachable volumes, (a.k.a. block storage) the following is an easy tutorial to achieve Dokku runs on them.

Deploying Gogs to Dokku ¶

Hot off the release of Dokku 0.6.3, here is a sweet tutorial made possible by the new port handling feature of Dokku.

Deploying Bugsink to Dokku ¶

Bugsink is a sentry-compatible Error Tracker with a strong focus on being very easy to self-host. The following is a tutorial on how to deploy it to Dokku.