piku/piku

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6603 stars · 157 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Piku is a minimal self-hosted Platform-as-a-Service that lets you deploy applications to your own servers via git push, inspired by Heroku and dokku. It supports multiple language runtimes (Python, Node, Go, Ruby, Java, Clojure) and runs on tiny hardware including ARM boards like the Raspberry Pi.

Use cases

• deploy apps to my own server with git push
• self-hosted heroku alternative
• run a small PaaS on a raspberry pi
• deploy python and node apps without docker
• simple paas for arm boards
• host multiple apps on one cheap vps

When to choose

• you want Heroku-style git push deployments on your own hardware or VPS
• you're deploying to ARM devices or low-resource servers where Docker is overkill
• you want a simple, stable PaaS with minimal dependencies (Python, nginx, uwsgi)

When to avoid

• you need full container orchestration, autoscaling, or multi-node clusters
• you're already invested in Kubernetes or Docker-based platforms like Dokku with plugins
• you need enterprise PaaS features like managed databases or built-in CI/CD

Facets

application · maturity stable

deployment self-hosted http-server cli configuration-management self-hosted cloud-computing web-development python cli self-hosted paas git-push-deployment heroku-alternative dokku-alternative raspberry-pi arm nginx uwsgi procfile devops automation linux docker

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