Import/Export dokploy projects
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Description
What problem will this feature address?
Currently, there is no built-in way to export a Dokploy project configuration and re-import it into another instance.
This presents a challenge for:
- Backup & recovery workflows — there's no way to version control or archive project configs.
- Migration across environments — users cannot easily replicate staging → production setups.
- Sharing reusable setups — templates and starter kits cannot be distributed without manually recreating each element.
This limits the portability, reproducibility, and collaboration potential of Dokploy-managed projects.
Describe the solution you'd like
Add functionality to:
- Export a Dokploy project (apps, environments, secrets, volumes, domains, etc.) to a standardized portable format (e.g., JSON or YAML).
- Import a project from such a file into any other Dokploy instance, with options for:
- overwriting existing project with the same name,
- skipping conflicting items,
- dry-run/preview mode.
Describe alternatives you've considered
Just import/export as json
Additional context
No response
Will you send a PR to implement it?
No
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by tracing how Dokploy represents projects and their apps, environments, secrets, volumes, and domains, then review existing JSON handling before defining the portable format and conflict behavior. Done means export, import, overwrite/skip handling, and dry-run behavior are specified and covered by tests.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100