Overview

Valour is bringing communities into the future with unique features, blazing performance, and respect for users. Join the movement for a more flexible, transparent, and open platform made by communities for communities. The project has 375 GitHub stars and is licensed under AGPL-3.0.

Getting Started

Source: GitHub README

Valour now applies EF Core migrations automatically on server startup (db.Database.Migrate()), so manual definitions.sql execution is no longer the primary setup path.

Normalized Features

Source: tool-features-normalized.json

docker, plugins, postgresql, redis, rest api.

Deploy

Docker

Self-host with Docker Compose

Coolify

One-click via Coolify panel

Elestio

Managed hosting from $9/mo

PikaPods

Simple managed hosting

Features

Integrations & APIs

Plugin / Extension System
REST API

Replaces

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