--- title: "How to Build Your Own Heroku with Dokku" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-your-own-heroku-with-dokku-u5i1n9rtm source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-build-your-on-heroku-with-dokku/ type: article source: "freeCodeCamp" author: "Nuno Bispo" published: 2022-02-04T20:52:50.567Z updated: 2026-03-15T04:03:03.282Z tags: ["django", "general-programming", "heroku"] reading_time: 18 upvotes: 17 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How to Build Your Own Heroku with Dokku **[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · [@nunobispo](https://daily.dev/nunobispo) · 18 min read · 17 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Dokku is a hosted Platform as a Service that enables developers to deploy their applications with ease. It is based on Docker and uses Heroku's build-packs to compile and package your applications. Dokku also offers a variety of features, such as support for multiple languages, custom domains, automated deployments, and many more. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Don’t just attend KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon, Merge Forward your experience\!](https://daily.dev/posts/don-t-just-attend-kubecon-cloudnativecon-merge-forward-your-experience--l0rpp73x8) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Announcing H2 2026 KCDs](https://daily.dev/posts/announcing-h2-2026-kcds-m96goajm1) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Two months of Open Community Groups](https://daily.dev/posts/two-months-of-open-community-groups-asf52zhbs) · CNCF · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#django](https://daily.dev/tags/django), [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#heroku](https://daily.dev/tags/heroku) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-build-your-own-heroku-with-dokku-u5i1n9rtm)