Is there any way to see demo of dokku pro or at least more screenshots?

[dedfft]

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Prior to spending 900$, would love to see how much it covers stuff from caprover. Really need webui for docker

[guinanlin]

+1

[gamedevsam]

I purchased it, and been playing around with dokku-pro over the weekend. Here's what I have to say about it:

To say it's rough around the edges is an understatement. It's clear from the get go that the team has huge ambitious for dokku / dokku-pro, but they are small and so dokku-pro feels a lot like an MVP where dokku open source is getting the bulk of the attention. As it should be in my opinion.

There's a nugget of something special with dokku + dokku-pro. The reason why the price is so high is because dokku-pro itself is not really the special sauce, dokku's the driving engine for dokku-pro, so it's possible to pirate / clone the dokku-pro experience. Right now if you buy at the current price you're an early adopter and will pay a heavy early adopter tax, but the company is compensating that tax by offering a lifetime license which generally is not a good idea for companies to do, and basically there's an implied promise that you can help steer the priorities of the development team by being a high value early customer.

I think dokku has been kinda positioning itself as a heroku killer / replacement, but the killer app for me is really simplifying deploying, scaling and orchestrating docker based applications. The heroku functionality may be good for on-boarding but it might be a bit of a distraction imo.

Still, being able to manage, orchestrate, and configure a set of web apps from a nice UI, without ever paying a monthly fee if I decide to run the software on my own hardware is a very appealing proposition for the right person. I jumped at the opportunity to obtain a lifetime license for a piece of software that empowers me to manage my own PaaS. That's a crazy ambitious thing, since I'm one person and the dokku team is very small.

In my opinion if you have the means, it's worth investing in crazy projects like these. Small teams with crazy ideas are always the ones who end up surprising us. And even if it fails, at least the company is developing in the open, sharing the code with others. In the event that the company goes bankrupt and dokku-pro becames abandon-ware, our money will not ultimately be wasted, since it's also fueling work in the open source version of dokku which will continue on.

As a software engineer, this is a win-win scenario, I'm very happy to be in a position where I can spend a pretty penny to support cool software I care about. Hope this doesn't dissuade you from making a purchase, since I am rooting for the dokku team, but you deserve to make an informed purchasing decision.

[meretsolutions]

Fantastic response, thank you so much for it. Exactly as I thought.

[Mugane]

I wish there were a way to see what actual features you are getting with the pro version that are not available in the open source version, even if they don't exist yet. Or is it a license issue?