:title: Your PaaS. Your Rules.
:description: Welcome to Deis, the open source PaaS.

Welcome
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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.

.. image:: ../controller/web/static/img/deis-graphic.png
    :alt: Deis cover logo

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>`.