What is CapRover?
It is an extremely easy to use app/database deployment & web server manager for your NodeJS, Python, PHP, ASP.NET, Ruby, MySQL, MongoDB, Postgres, WordPress (and etc...) applications!
It's blazingly fast and very robust as it uses Docker, nginx, LetsEncrypt and NetData under the hood behind its simple-to-use interface.
CapRover is a tool in the Platform as a Service category of a tech stack.
CapRover is an open source tool with 12.2K GitHub stars and 778 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CapRover's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CapRover?
Companies
8 companies reportedly use CapRover in their tech stacks, including identi, Smoove Xperience, and Coinsamba.
Developers
47 developers on StackShare have stated that they use CapRover.
CapRover Integrations
Python, Node.js, Docker, MySQL, and PHP are some of the popular tools that integrate with CapRover. Here's a list of all 12 tools that integrate with CapRover.
Pros of CapRover
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CapRover's Features
- CLI for automation and scripting
- Web GUI for ease of access and convenience
- No lock-in! Remove CapRover and your apps keep working!
- Docker Swarm under the hood for containerization and clustering
- Nginx (fully customizable template) under the hood for load-balancing
- Let's Encrypt under the hood for free SSL (HTTPS)
CapRover Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to CapRover?
Heroku
Heroku is a cloud application platform – a new way of building and deploying web apps. Heroku lets app developers spend 100% of their time on their application code, not managing servers, deployment, ongoing operations, or scaling.
Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
