| title: | Welcome to the Deis documentation |
|---|---|
| description: | An overview of the Deis documentation |
| keywords: | deis, cloud, heroku |
deis is an open source PaaS that makes it easy to deploy
:ref:`container_def`s and :ref:`node_def`s 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.
Deis comes with out-of-the-box support for Ruby, Python, Node.js, Java, Clojure, Scala, Play, PHP, Perl, Dart and Go. However, Deis can deploy anything using Heroku Buildpacks, Docker images, or Chef recipes. Deis is designed to work with any cloud provider, although only EC2 is currently supported.