General Operating Instructions

Dokku Pro runs as a systemd service named dokku-pro.service, so day-to-day operation uses the standard systemctl commands. This page collects the ones you will reach for most often; see Installation for first-time setup and Backup and Restore for stopping the service safely before a backup.

Starting and Stopping Dokku Pro

# start the service
sudo systemctl start dokku-pro.service

# stop the service
sudo systemctl stop dokku-pro.service

# start automatically on boot
sudo systemctl enable dokku-pro.service

# reload systemd after editing /etc/default/dokku-pro
sudo systemctl daemon-reload

After changing any value in /etc/default/dokku-pro, run daemon-reload and then restart the service for the new configuration to take effect.