CapRover

About

CapRover is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) solution originating from New Zealand, designed for extremely easy app and database deployment and web server management. It supports a wide range of applications including NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, and WordPress. Key features include simple installation, scalability, HTTPS support (via Let's Encrypt), Docker UI management, server management, custom fixed subdomains, and remote deployment. Users praise CapRover for its user-friendliness, enabling quick setup of multiple web apps with HTTPS and a stats dashboard in under 5 minutes, and its seamless integration with GitHub deployment actions. It is recognized as a highly user-friendly Docker container manager that simplifies publishing and maintaining websites and apps, supporting Docker Swarm for scaling. While previously described as Free and Proprietary, a recent update indicates it is no longer open source, with additional conditions, paid redistribution restrictions, and a required EULA for all users. It is available for Self-Hosted and Docker platforms.