Self-hosted · Open source · Apache 2.0

Deploy on your own servers.

Apps, databases and services on machines you own. Push to deploy, get a domain with HTTPS, and run it all from one dashboard.

What it does

A whole platform, minus the bill.

Everything you'd reach for a hosted PaaS to do — on hardware you already pay for.

Apps from anywhere
GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Bitbucket or any Git URL — or a Docker image, Dockerfile or Compose file. Builds with Nixpacks, Railpack, Buildpacks or auto-detection.
Databases
Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, Redis, Valkey and ClickHouse. Scheduled backups to disk or S3, one-click restore.
One-click services
n8n, Uptime Kuma, Plausible, Ghost, Nextcloud, Vaultwarden, Grafana, MinIO and more — plus your own templates.
Safe deploys
Zero downtime, health checks, rollbacks and pull request previews. Approvals and deploy freezes when you need them.
Domains & HTTPS
nginx, Caddy or Traefik in front, with Let's Encrypt certificates that renew on their own.
Cloudflare
Manage DNS records and run Tunnels, so a server without a public IP can still serve the web.
Many servers
Add machines over SSH — even behind NAT — and join them with an encrypted private network.
Logs, your way
Ship logs to an HTTP endpoint, Loki, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Splunk or syslog.
Teams
Organizations, roles, project access, passkeys, two-factor auth and a full activity log.

How it works

01
Install
Run one command on a Linux box. It installs Docker if it's missing and asks for three ports.
02
Connect Git
Link GitHub in one click, or add any other provider. Give the dashboard a domain for webhooks.
03
Deploy
New project → new service. Pick an app, database or template, check the settings, ship it.
04
Grow
Add servers over SSH when one isn't enough. Updates back up Serve first and roll back on failure.

Install

Any Linux server — Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Rocky — with 2 GB of RAM and root access. Then open http://<server-ip>:8000 and create the owner account.

Use a server dedicated to Serve: it controls Docker, which is equal to root on the host. Images ship for amd64 and arm64.

bash

$ curl -fsSL https://serve.bd/install.sh | bash

Ports Serve uses
Port	Used for
80, 443 TCP	Your apps, through the proxy
8000 TCP	The dashboard, until it has a domain
7822 TCP	Servers without a public IP
51820 UDP	Private network between servers