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Did they ever figure out the scaling problem or is it still just "one web dyno and that's it"?


Dokku maintainer here:

There are both Kubernetes[1] and Nomad[2] plugins. I'm also building schedulers for AWS Lambda, Compose (which I guess also sorta provides Azure ACI and AWS ECS support), and Swarm.

You can also scale individual process types (so anything in your Procfile) via our `ps` plugin[3]. All plugins should support this, so you don't need to learn a new set of commands for alternative schedulers.

- [1] Kubernetes Scheduler Plugin: https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-kubernetes - [2] NomadScheduler Plugin: https://github.com/dokku/dokku-scheduler-nomad - [3] Process Management: https://dokku.com/docs/processes/process-management/


Thank you! This is great


You can put dokku in front of different schedulers, kubernetes being one of them.


It’s still single machine l, but afaik you can run multiple dynos, and can certainly let run multiple apps and separate web/worker dynos.


Any pointers to documentation on this topic?



Can’t you just put a load balancer in front of N vps running dokku? Although, I haven’t done infrastructure since before docker was invented so a little behind the times.




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