Your apps. Your stacks. No middleman.

OwnStack gives you Heroku-style ergonomics — git push, scale, add-ons, automatic SSL — on infrastructure you already own. AWS, GCP, OpenStack, or any host with SSH.

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Quickstart

Install the CLI, point it at a stack, deploy your first app. Fifteen minutes end-to-end.

Concepts

How OwnStack works

The mental model: control plane, stacks, apps, processes, deployments. Read these once.

Reference

CLI reference

Every command, every flag, every example. Searchable.

How-to guides

Task-shaped recipes for the things you actually want to do.

Scale processes

Web, worker, sidekiq queues — change counts on the fly.

Dump a database

Stream a binary pg_dump down to your machine.

Repair a DB link

Fix password authentication failed after an import.

Custom domain + SSL

Point a domain at a stack; Let's Encrypt issues automatically.

Deploy to multiple stacks

Staging + prod, primary + failover, region by region.

Migrate from Heroku

Apps, config, postgres backups — the move.

Deploy failures

Common build and release errors, and what to do.

Stack backups

Schedule and restore stack-wide backups.

Reference

Deeper details when you need them.

ownstack app

App lifecycle, stacks, domains.

ownstack deploy

Trigger a deploy by git or image.

ownstack db

Postgres / MySQL operations.

ownstack stack

Stack-level operations and backups.

REST API

Authentication and endpoints.

Account & billing

Tokens, profiles, invoices.

Troubleshooting

Common errors with concrete fixes.

Changelog

What shipped recently.