| title: | Deis Docs | Your PaaS. Your Rules. |
|---|---|
| description: | Welcome to the Deis documentation homepage |
| keywords: | api, commandline, command-line, contributing, faq, terms, tutorial, deis, docker |
Deis is a Django/Celery API server, Python CLI and set of Chef cookbooks that combine to provide a Heroku-inspired application platform for public and private clouds. Your PaaS. Your Rules.
Deis makes it easy to deploy and scale LXC containers and Chef nodes used to host applications, databases, middleware and other services. Deis leverages Chef, Docker and Heroku Buildpacks to provide a private PaaS that is lightweight and flexible.
If you are new to Deis, you should start with :ref:`Concepts`. Once you've completed :ref:`installation` of your private Deis controller, you should explore :ref:`usage` of the command-line client which is elaborated on in the :ref:`tutorial`.
Want to learn about Deis internals? You'll find complete API documentation in the :ref:`client` and :ref:`server` sections.
Interested in contributing to the Deis project? Check out our :ref:`Contributor Overview <contributor>` and :ref:`devsetup` instructions.