Open Source Cycle Alternatives
A curated collection of the 2 best open source alternatives to Cycle.
The best open source alternative to Cycle is Dokploy. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Cycle alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternative to Cycle is Dyrector.
Cycle alternatives are mainly Build & Deployment but may also be Server & VM Management or Orchestration & Scheduling. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Cycle.
Self-hostable platform as a service that deploys applications and databases on your own VPS, with Docker Swarm and Traefik underneath.
Dokploy is a free platform as a service you host yourself. It closes the gap between a bare VPS and a managed host, giving deployments, databases, backups and monitoring on a server you already pay for.
Installation is a single shell command run on the VPS. Traefik integration handles routing and load balancing automatically, Docker Compose is supported natively for multi service applications, and Docker Swarm scales an application across several nodes.
The dashboard covers the operational work that follows a deployment.
- Applications: deploy Node.js, PHP, Python, Go, Ruby and other stacks.
- Databases: create and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MariaDB, libsql and Redis instances.
- Backups: schedule database backups to an external storage destination.
- Monitoring: watch CPU, memory, storage and network usage for every resource.
- Notifications: report deployment success or failure to Slack, Discord, Telegram or email.
- Templates: install open source projects such as Plausible, Pocketbase and Cal.com in a single click.
A CLI and an API cover the same ground as the interface for anyone scripting their workflow, and multi server support manages deployments on remote machines from one place. A hosted cloud version exists for teams that would rather skip the installation entirely.
A self-hosted continuous delivery platform for managing containerized applications and their versions across environments without SSH or kubectl access.
Dyrector is a self-hosted continuous delivery and deployment platform with version management. It targets the hours engineers and DevOps teams spend maintaining containerized applications instead of developing their software, replacing several tools with one place to manage infrastructure and the OCI containers running on it.
The system is an agent and a platform. The agent is written in Go in two flavors, one for Docker and one for Kubernetes, talking to the platform over gRPC with TLS encryption. The platform's interface is React and Next.js, its backend Node.js and Nest.js, and its data sits in PostgreSQL managed through Prisma.
The feature set covers deployment, configuration, and the record of both.
- Runtime support: Kubernetes, Docker, and Podman, with multi-instance deployment to several environments at once.
- Test environments: instant environments from any branch, so QA can deploy microservice versions on any reachable node.
- Configuration without access: a JSON editor changes container settings without touching the container, and bundle configs avoid repeating work.
- Secrets: secret and configuration management sits beside the deployment definitions.
- Release control: scheduled releases, workflow support, and auto-generated changelogs and release notes.
- Governance: fine-grained RBAC and an audit log, with container registry integrations and ChatOps notifications.
Deployments can be automated with a CD token used from GitHub Actions. Besides self-hosting there is a managed SaaS with a free tier, and a platform alpha whose database may be reset, so it is not recommended for production. Everything is Apache 2.0, with semantic versioning shifted right so major versions wait for the beta phase.
