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App Marketplace guide

Install self-hosted apps such as Nextcloud, Immich, Vaultwarden and Uptime Kuma on your VPS in one click, then restart, stop or remove them from the portal.

App Marketplace Overview

The App Marketplace installs popular self-hosted applications on your VPS with a single click. Each app runs as its own Docker Compose stack on your server.

Key Features

• One-click installs — Pick an app and click Install; most are running within a few minutes (your first install also sets up Docker)
• Docker-based — Every app has its own Docker Compose stack and data volumes
• Generated credentials — Where an app needs passwords, they're generated for you and shown in the portal
• Firewall ports opened for you — Installing an app adds cloud firewall rules for the ports it needs; uninstalling removes them
• Managed from the portal — Restart, stop or uninstall any app from your VPS's App Marketplace tab

Installing Apps

Apps are installed from the App Marketplace tab on your VPS service page.

1. 1
   Go to Services and click your VPS.
2. 2
   Click the App Marketplace tab.
3. 3
   Browse the catalog or filter by category (Web, Database, Monitoring, Dev Tools, File Storage, Management, Security, Communication, Media, Analytics, AI, Backup).
4. 4
   Click Install on the app you want. Apps that need more RAM than your server has are marked "Needs … RAM" and can't be installed.
5. 5
   Confirm the installation in the dialog. The app starts installing right away.

Most apps are ready within a few minutes. The status shows Installing... while the app is set up and Running when it's ready.

First App Installation

If Docker isn't on your server yet, it's installed first — set up to pull Docker Hub images through our local cache — so your first install takes longer than later ones.

Access Credentials

Once an app is running, its address appears under its name on the app card. Click Show Credentials to see generated passwords and setup notes; each value has a copy button.

Managing Apps

Installed apps are listed at the top of the App Marketplace tab with their status and controls.

Available Actions

Status Indicators

Accessing Your App

Web apps get an Admin URL — http://your-VPS-IP:port (Portainer uses https). Click it to open the app in your browser. Database apps (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, MariaDB and Valkey) aren't opened in the cloud firewall: connect from the server itself, from another server over your VPC network, or through an SSH tunnel. If your firewall has no rules at all, their ports are reachable from the internet, so keep a preset applied.

Available Apps

The marketplace offers 40 applications across 12 categories. Ports are defaults — the first is the app's web or main port, and any others are opened in your firewall too.

Web

Database

Monitoring

Dev Tools

File Storage

Management

Security

Communication

Media

Analytics

AI

Backup