Self-Host OpenCloud with Docker Compose, and How It Compares to Nextcloud

OpenCloud Compose is a repository of Docker Compose configurations for deploying OpenCloud in different environments. Its modular files combine the core OpenCloud service with Traefik or an external reverse proxy, Let's Encrypt or local certificates, Collabora Online or Euro Office document editing, Keycloak and LDAP identity management, Apache Tika full-text search, Radicale calendar and contacts, monitoring metrics, and ClamAV antivirus scanning. Deployments are selected with Docker Compose `-f` options or the `COMPOSE_FILE` environment variable, with settings such as domains, passwords, storage paths, and service-specific secrets supplied through `.env`. The repository requires Docker and Docker Compose v2, is licensed under GPLv3, and advises using the official OpenCloud documentation for production deployments.

OpenCloud is an open-source, self-hosted file-storage and collaboration platform developed by the Heinlein Group. It is descended from ownCloud Infinite Scale and rewritten in Go, providing file management and sharing for teams and organizations without requiring a separate database instance or schema migrations. The platform supports optional full-text search, browser-based document editing through an integrated office suite, access controls, two-factor authentication, encryption, and file versioning. It is available for on-premises operation or as a SaaS offering through selected partners, with a cloud-native architecture intended for large data volumes and growing teams.

A beginner guide to Docker by TechHut. It covers Docker installation, non-root user management, running and managing containers, images, volumes, bind mounts, networking, Docker Compose, and container cleanup. The guide is maintained as a TechHut article, published in February 2024 and updated in July 2026.

ComPDF Self-Hosted is an open-source PDF editing, conversion, and document-processing platform from the KDAN ecosystem. It is deployed privately with Docker Compose and provides a browser-accessible tool center for merging, splitting, rotating, watermarking, encrypting, decrypting, and otherwise editing PDFs, as well as converting between PDF, Office formats, HTML, TXT, CSV, RTF, JSON, Markdown, OFD, and image formats. Its image-conversion functions include image-to-document and image-to-PDF workflows, with OCR-related capabilities indicated by the repository topics. A management console handles API keys, API usage, license status, operation-log auditing, account management, and system configuration; commercial support and an enterprise upgrade are also offered.

Openship is an open-source, self-hostable application deployment platform with built-in CI/CD. It takes a repository, detects or supports its stack, builds and ships the application as containers, and handles routing and TLS termination. Deployments can be controlled through a desktop app, web dashboard, or CLI; GitHub webhooks support push-to-deploy workflows, and the platform supports repeatable rollbacks. The control plane can run locally in the desktop app, as a self-hosted server, or through Openship Cloud. In Compose mode it runs the platform stack on a Docker host and can host deployed applications there; in bare mode it runs as a lightweight process and deploys to a server over SSH or to the cloud.