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 13.3K GitHub stars and 853 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CapRover's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses CapRover?
Companies
9 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.
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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.
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
