Dokku should be able to handle all of your concerns. We do load-balancing on the server via nginx, use Docker's plumbing (the docker command/api) to build nice

Dokku should be able to handle all of your concerns. We do load-balancing on the server via nginx, use Docker's plumbing (the docker command/api) to build nice porcelain (our own cli tool) for stuff like restart policies etc. It's targeted specifically at single-server solutions, and migrating once you are large enough to another platform is easy as we tend to not build in platform lock-in. Feel free to jump on our slack or irc: http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/getting-started/where-to-get-help/ http://dokku.viewdocs.io/dokku/getting-started/where-to-get-... Disclaimer: I am a maintainer of Dokku