Research alternative platforms and implement equivalents of their core features to achieve functional parity

[AlexRMU]

Example alternatives to analyze:

• https://vercel.com/
• https://www.netlify.com/
• https://www.heroku.com/
• https://github.com/coollabsio/coolify
• https://github.com/kubero-dev/kubero
• https://github.com/basecamp/kamal
• https://github.com/caprover/caprover
• https://github.com/biersoeckli/QuickStack

The plan is to see what key features they offer (deployment, CI/CD, scaling, security, UX, etc.) and think about how similar things could be implemented in Dokploy.

Specific focus areas / proposed improvements:

• Podman support
  [Feature Request] Add Podman container runtime support #134
• Kubernetes support
  Why not Kubernetes🤔 #1672
• Auto-scaling
  Enhanced Horizontal Scaling: Docker Compose Replicas + Auto-scaling (HPA) #2579
  Container auto sleep/scale to zero #2154
• Better monitoring, observability, and analytics
  Better Monitoring For All Deployments Across All Servers #2487
  Monitoring should show Usage on Remote Servers #2685
  How to add a resources section in advanced if I'm using docker-compose ? #667 (reply in thread)
• Improving templates and starter setups
  Custom and "private" Dokploy templates #2414
  Allow more configuration possibilities for certain template projects such as PostgreSQL #946
  Feature: The ability to add personal templates #1520
• Security for apps and for Dokploy itself (firewall, rate limiting, etc.)
  How to secure the dokploy admin panel behind VPN? #2618
  Network Management and Security Concerns with Traefik/Dokploy #2798
  Add in a WAF (Web Application Firewall) #1547
  IP whitelist for databases #2542
  Feature Request: Allow Binding Published Ports to a Specific Host IP for Enhanced Security #2915
  Allow Dokploy and traefic panel UI to bind to 127.0.0.1 (don’t publish :3000) #2661
• Proper multi-server support
• Serverless functions
  Feature Request: Support for JS/TS Function Deployment #1353
• Teams and organizations
  Organisation and Teams Management #1413

[russorat]

@AlexRMU thanks so much for this list! Do you mind sharing what you're using dokploy for and if any of these improvements are more important than others for you?

[AlexRMU]

I use dokploy for small personal projects.
Overall, I'm interested in all the items on the list and I can't single anything out.