Self-hostable deployment platform with built-in CI/CD. Push code, ship containers, manage infrastructure from a desktop app, web dashboard, or CLI.
Openship is an open source alternative to Vercel, Railway, and Render. Self-hostable deployment platform with built-in CI/CD. Push code, ship containers, manage infrastructure from a desktop app, web dashboard, or CLI. Apache-2.0 licensed, 2.8k GitHub stars, hosted version available, self-host with Docker, and last released 2026-07-18.
Should you switch?
Developers and small teams who want a self-hosted Vercel or Railway replacement: push code, get automatic builds, SSL, domains, databases, and backups, all managed from a single desktop app, browser dashboard, or CLI without writing deployment YAML.
The project is 4 months old (created 2026-03-05, v0.1.11 as of 2026-07-18) with active install and self-host bugs still being filed. If you need a battle-tested PaaS today, Coolify or CapRover are more mature options.
The CLI installer and self-hosted SSH deploy path have reported breakages as of July 2026. Docker Compose is the most reliable self-host path today. Pre-built Docker images are missing; you must build from source via the compose stack.
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Community proof
Some quotes here endorse the approach rather than report first-hand use, or report a problem. We label those.
"I would like to run the control plane on a VPS and the deployer in my homelab"
"Deploying a project to a self-hosted server over SSH (desktop app, runtime: sandboxed (Docker container)) always fails immediately after a successful docker build"
Maintenance health
Can you do it today?
git clone https://github.com/oblien/openship.git && cd openship && cp .env.example .env && docker compose up -dGitHub
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