Author here!
I built a bash script to manage deployments of multiple applications to a single Dokku server. I made this after I was paying like 30$+ a month on DigitalOcean, and wanted to move fast to a different VPS
What it does:
- Import existing servers - Run ./deploy.sh --import ./apps --ssh your-server to clone all your apps, export their config (domains, ports, storage, postgres, letsencrypt), and env vars
- Migrate between servers - Import from old server, change SSH config, deploy to new server
- Multi-app orchestration - One config.json manages multiple independent repos
- Hierarchical configuration - Parent settings cascade to deployments, children can override
- Smart deploys - Skips unchanged apps by comparing git commits
- Tag-based filtering - --tag staging or --tag api to deploy subsets
- Secrets via .env files - Hierarchical: _api (shared) → api.example.com (specific)
Pure bash, requires only jq. No daemon, no external services.
