| title: | Your PaaS. Your Rules. |
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| description: | Welcome to Deis, the open source PaaS. |
Deis is a lightweight, flexible and powerful open source PaaS. Building on Docker and CoreOS, Deis provides a familiar, Heroku-inspired workflow using efficient containerization, on your cloud or hardware. Your PaaS. Your Rules.
If you are new to Deis, start with :ref:`Concepts` and basic :ref:`Usage` of the command-line client. Follow the :ref:`Developer Guide <developer>` to learn how to deploy and scale your own application. The :ref:`Operations Guide <operations>` will walk you through provisioning and managing Deis itself.
So how does it work? Read about the overall :ref:`architecture` and individual :ref:`components`, or search the API reference for the :ref:`Client <client>` and :ref:`Server <server>`.
Interested in contributing to the Deis project? Check out our :ref:`Local Development <localdev>` instructions and :ref:`Contributor Overview <contributor>`.