Dagucloud by dagucloud

Self-hosted workflow engine for scripts, cron jobs, containers, and ops automation. YAML workflows, retries, logs, approvals, and optional distributed workers.

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Verdict 78/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 3/5 setup difficulty Last release 3 days ago

Self-host Dagucloud on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
78 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
3 /5
External DB / setup
GitHub stars
3.4k
260 forks

About Dagucloud

From the project's README at github.com/dagucloud/dagu. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

Docs | Examples | Support & Community Run Scripts, Cron Jobs, and Runbooks as Workflows

Dagu turns the commands your team already runs into scheduled, observable workflows that are safe to rerun.

Keep your automation as shell scripts, Python scripts, containers, SSH commands, SQL jobs, HTTP calls, and runbooks. Define the workflow in plain YAML, run it with one binary, and get the operational layer that cron and ad hoc scripts are missing: dependencies, retries, queues, logs, artifacts, approvals, API

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
99
maturity
100
community
90
security
85
sustainability
65
adoption
31

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 3.4k github.com/dagucloud/dagu
GitHub forks 260 github.com/dagucloud/dagu

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age4.0 yearssince Apr 2022
Last commit3 days agoMay 4, 2026
Releases shipped242last: 3 days ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

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Spin up a hetzner CAX11 (4GB RAM, 40GB disk) for $4.13/mo and follow the project's official install docs.

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