WHAT IS IT?
Openship is a self-hostable deployment platform with built-in CI/CD. You push your code, it detects the stack, builds the app and ships the containers to your own server, Heroku-style but on your infrastructure. It's driven from a CLI, a web dashboard or a desktop app, whichever you prefer.
WHY IS IT INTERESTING?
- Zero-config push-to-deploy: automatic stack detection (Node, Python, Go, Rust, PHP, Ruby, Java, .NET, Docker) and builds without writing a pipeline.
- Three interfaces: CLI, web dashboard and desktop app for the same infra, depending on what you prefer.
- Backend services included: Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, storage and WebSockets provisioned alongside the app.
- The plumbing handled: Let's Encrypt SSL (wildcard included), a mail server with DKIM/SPF/DMARC, real-time monitoring and scheduled backups.
- Multi-target: cloud, VPS, dedicated or multi-node servers, with Docker Compose compatibility.
USE CASES
- Deploy your side projects without paying for a monthly PaaS.
- Run a homemade Heroku on a VPS and keep control of the infra.
- Provision app plus database plus Redis at once for a full environment.
- Run production workloads self-hosted across multiple nodes.