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A self-hosted alternative to Vercel Heroku

MIT LicenseOpen Source — No Paywall2 Containers — 2 containers — light hosting footprintPackage · Docker · SourceNo external DB2+ active committers (12mo)

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Compose Farm is a CLI-first tool for people who manage Docker Compose stacks across more than one host and want to keep that workflow close to plain Compose. It is designed as an agentless layer over...

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Features

  • multi-host Docker Compose execution
  • SSH-based agentless operation
  • declarative stack reconciliation
  • stack migration between hosts
  • Traefik file-provider config generation
  • configuration of single-host and multi-host setups
  • auto-migration
  • plugin system
  • host resource monitoring
  • web UI

Details

Last Updated
Sep 29, 2026
Created
Dec 11, 2025
Install Methods
package-managerdockersource
Requirements
Python 3.11+SSH key-based authentication (ssh-agent)DockerDocker Composeshared storage accessible at the same path on all hostsexternal Docker networks on all hosts
Authentication
local
Backup & Export
native-export
Privacy & Independence
No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
Deployment

Deployment: Docker Compose ✓2 Containers — light hosting footprintRuns as 2 containers

Docker Compose

2 services

no resource limits declared

needs persistent storage (5 volumes)

docker-compose.yml · @ 5be8881 · scanned Sep 29, 2026

services:
  cf:
    image: ghcr.io/basnijholt/compose-farm:latest
    # Run as current user to preserve file ownership on mounted volumes
    # Set CF_UID=$(id -u) CF_GID=$(id -g) in your environment or .env file
    # Defaults to root (0:0) for backwards compatibility
    user: "${CF_UID:-0}:${CF_GID:-0}"
    volumes:
      # Compose directory (contains compose files AND compose-farm.yaml config)
      - ${CF_COMPOSE_DIR:-/opt/stacks}:${CF_COMPOSE_DIR:-/opt/stacks}
      # Persist known_hosts and optional dedicated keys. Choose option 1 or 2
      # (use the same option for both cf and web services):
      # Option 1: Host path (default) - keys at ~/.ssh/compose-farm/id_ed25519
      - ${CF_SSH_DIR:-~/.ssh/compose-farm}:${CF_HOME:-/root}/.ssh/compose-farm
      # Option 2: Named volume - managed by Docker, shared between services
      # - cf-ssh:${CF_HOME:-/root}/.ssh
      # Optional: add SSH agent forwarding while keeping a persistent mount above
      # - ${SSH_AUTH_SOCK}:/ssh-agent:ro
    environment:
      - SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/ssh-agent
# ...

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