dokku/docs/deployment/schedulers/docker-local.md

# Docker Local Scheduler

> [!IMPORTANT]
> Subcommands new as of 0.12.12

```
scheduler-docker-local:report [<app>] [<flag>]              # Displays a scheduler-docker-local report for one or more apps
scheduler-docker-local:set <app> <key> (<value>)            # Set or clear a scheduler-docker-local property for an app
```

> [!IMPORTANT]
> New as of 0.12.0

Dokku natively includes functionality to manage application lifecycles for a single server using the `scheduler-docker-local` plugin. It is the default scheduler, but as with all schedulers, it is set on a per-application basis. The scheduler can currently be overridden by running the following command:

```shell
dokku scheduler:set node-js-app selected docker-local
```

As it is the default, unsetting the `selected` scheduler property is also a valid way to reset the scheduler.

```shell
dokku scheduler:set node-js-app selected
```

## Usage

### Deploying amd64 images on arm64

> [!IMPORTANT]
> New as of 0.33.0

Many builders only produce amd64-compatible images. The docker-local scheduler will automatically detect these and run them via the `--platform=linux/amd64` on arm64 deploy targets.

### Disabling the init process

The `scheduler-docker-local` injects an init process by default via the `--init`. For some apps - such as those where the built docker image uses S6 as the init - this may be undesirable and cause issues with process starts. You may disable this by running the following `scheduler-docker-local:set` command for your application:

```shell
dokku scheduler-docker-local:set node-js-app init-process false
```

Once set, you may re-enable it by setting a blank value for `init-process`:

```shell
dokku scheduler-docker-local:set node-js-app init-process
```

All image containers with the label `org.opencontainers.image.vendor=linuxserver.io` will have the automatic init process injection force-disabled without further intervention.

### Deploying Process Types in Parallel

> [!IMPORTANT]
> New as of 0.25.5

By default, Dokku deploys an app's processes one-by-one in order, with the `web` process being deployed first. Deployment parallelism may be achieved by setting the `parallel-schedule-count` property, which defaults to `1`. Increasing this number increases the number of process types that may be deployed in parallel (with the web process being the exception).

```shell
# Increase parallelism from 1 process type at a time to 4 process types at a time.
dokku scheduler-docker-local:set node-js-app parallel-schedule-count 4
```

Once set, you may reset it by setting a blank value for `parallel-schedule-count`:

```shell
dokku scheduler-docker-local:set node-js-app parallel-schedule-count
```

If the value of `parallel-schedule-count` is increased and a given process type fails to schedule successfully, then any in-flight process types will continue to be processed, while all process types that have not been scheduled will be skipped before the deployment finally fails.

Container scheduling output is shown in the order it is received, and thus may be out of order in case of output to stderr.

Note that increasing the value of `parallel-schedule-count` may significantly impact CPU utilization on your host as your app containers - and their respective processes - start up. Setting a value higher than the number of available CPUs is discouraged. It is recommended that users carefully set this value so as not to overburden their server.

#### Increasing parallelism within a process deploy

> [!IMPORTANT]
> New as of 0.26.0

By default, Dokku will deploy one instance of a given process type at a time. This can be increased by customizing the `app.json` `formation` key to include a `max_parallel` key for the given process type.

The `formation` key should be specified as follows in the `app.json` file:

```json
{
  "formation": {
    "web": {
      "max_parallel": 1
    },
    "worker": {
      "max_parallel": 4
    }
  }
}
```

Omitting or removing the entry will result in parallelism for that process type to return to 1 entry at a time. This can be combined with the `parallel-schedule-count` property to speed up deployments.

Note that increasing the value of `max_parallel` may significantly impact CPU utilization on your host as your app containers - and their respective processes - start up. Setting a value higher than the number of available CPUs is discouraged. It is recommended that users carefully set this value so as not to overburden their server.

See the [app.json location documentation](/docs/advanced-usage/deployment-tasks.md#changing-the-appjson-location) for more information on where to place your `app.json` file.

## Scheduler Interface

The following sections describe implemented scheduler functionality for the `docker-local` scheduler.

### Implemented Commands and Triggers

This plugin implements various functionality through `plugn` triggers to integrate with Docker for running apps on a single server. The following functionality is supported by the `scheduler-docker-local` plugin.

- `apps:clone`
- `apps:destroy`
- `apps:rename`
- `deploy`
- `enter`
- `logs`
- `ps:inspect`
- `ps:stop`
- `run`

### Logging support

App logs for the `logs` command are fetched from running containers via the `docker` cli. To persist logs across deployments, consider using Dokku's [vector integration](/docs/deployment/logs.md#vector-logging-shipping) to ship logs to another service or a third-party platform.

### Supported Resource Management Properties

The `docker-local` scheduler supports a minimal list of resource _limits_ and _reservations_. The following properties are supported:

#### Resource Limits

- cpu: (docker option: `--cpus`), is specified in number of CPUs a process can access.
    - See the ["CPU" section](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#cpu) of the Docker Runtime Options documentation for more information.
- memory: (docker option: `--memory`) should be specified with a suffix of `b` (bytes), `k` (kilobytes), `m` (megabytes), `g` (gigabytes). Default unit is `m` (megabytes).
    - See the ["Memory" section](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#memory) of the Docker Runtime Options documentation for more information.
- memory-swap: (docker option: `--memory-swap`) should be specified with a suffix of `b` (bytes), `k` (kilobytes), `m` (megabytes), `g` (gigabytes)
    - See the ["Memory" section](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#memory) of the Docker Runtime Options documentation for more information.
- nvidia-gpus: (docker option: `--gpus`), is specified in number of Nvidia GPUs a process can access.
    - See the ["GPU" section](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#gpu) of the Docker Runtime Options documentation for more information.

#### Resource Reservations

- memory: (docker option: `--memory-reservation`) should be specified with a suffix of `b` (bytes), `k` (kilobytes), `m` (megabytes), `g` (gigabytes). Default unit is `m` (megabytes).
    - See the ["Memory" section](https://docs.docker.com/config/containers/resource_constraints/#memory) of the Docker Runtime Options documentation for more information.