Render

Render requires a paid Web Service because Dagu needs a Persistent Disk.

Deploy

1. Select + New > Web Service.
2. Under Source Code, select Existing Image.
3. Enter ghcr.io/dagucloud/dagu:latest and select Connect.
4. Select a paid instance type.
5. Under Advanced, add a 1 GB Persistent Disk mounted at /var/lib/dagu.
6. Add these variables:

PORT=8080
DAGU_AUTH_MODE=builtin
DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_USERNAME=admin
DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_PASSWORD=<strong-password>
PUID=0
PGID=0

7. Create the service.

Open its onrender.com HTTPS URL and sign in as admin. Remove the two DAGU_AUTH_BUILTIN_INITIAL_ADMIN_* variables, then deploy the change.

This direct-image setup runs Dagu and its workflows as root so the mounted disk is writable. Use a custom image that fixes the disk ownership to run as UID 1000.

The disk limits the service to one instance and disables zero-downtime deploys. Render creates daily disk snapshots. Render does not redeploy an image-backed service when a mutable tag changes; use Manual Deploy > Deploy latest reference. Use a versioned Dagu image for production.

See Render's prebuilt image and Persistent Disk documentation.