What is DockIY?
DockIY is a minimal, open-source Docker setup for deploying multiple web applications to one VPS. It adds a small CLI while keeping the infrastructure and application code under your control.
DockIY uses normal, editable files and commands. It is not a hosted platform or hidden control plane. Applications keep their own Dockerfiles, Compose files, Traefik labels, secrets, manifest, and lifecycle hooks.
The base stack
A DockIY VPS provides a small set of shared services:
- Traefik routes domains to application containers and provisions TLS certificates.
- Umami provides privacy-friendly web analytics.
- Dozzle displays Docker container logs.
- Beszel monitors the server and sends notifications.
- Docker Registry stores application images on the VPS.
The registry listens only on the VPS loopback interface. The CLI accesses it through an SSH tunnel, so it does not need a public domain or registry credentials.
Philosophy
DockIY aims to be:
- simple enough to understand and change;
- independent of hosted CI/CD and deployment services;
- portable to any VPS that can run Docker;
- close to infrastructure as code;
- explicit about the Docker, SSH, and Compose commands it runs.
The base repository owns shared server infrastructure. Each application repository owns everything specific to that application.
Current workflow
- Run
dockiy setupto create a global server profile. - Run
dockiy server initto install the base stack. - Create an application with
dockiy app init, or use an existing repository with a validdockiy.yml. - Run
dockiy app deployfrom the application repository.
The CLI coordinates Git, Docker, SSH, rsync, SOPS, and app-owned hooks. It does not hide or replace those tools.