From your repo to live: deploying in minutes

Connect your GitHub repo, let your framework be detected automatically, and have your app published redundantly on our servers around the world.

For many years, taking an application live was a speciality of its own: rent a server, install an operating system, prepare the runtime, configure a reverse proxy, obtain a certificate, then keep all of it up to date. None of that is writing code, and it eats weeks of most developers’ time.

What you do, what we do

The only thing you do is point at the source: a GitHub repo, a Docker image or a ready Marketplace template. The rest is ours. We pull the repo, look at what is inside and work out what runtime it needs.

Framework detection is not guesswork: we read the package files, the dependency list and the directory layout to work out whether this is Laravel, Next.js, Django or a static site. We pick the right base image, install the dependencies and run the build. That is why you do not have to write a Dockerfile — but if you did write one, we use it rather than overriding you.

What happens during the build?

The build log streams live. You see which step you are on, which package is being installed and where an error appeared, line by line. If something goes wrong you do not have to guess; it is written in the log.

When the build finishes, your app becomes an image and is deployed to as many separate servers as the copies you chose. The domain is connected and the TLS certificate is obtained and renewed automatically. Health checks take over: if a copy stops responding, it is replaced.

Afterwards

After the first deployment the work gets even shorter. If you picked a branch, every push publishes a new version automatically; you can turn that off and trigger it by hand instead. You manage environment variables from an encrypted vault, and when you add a database its connection details are written into the app’s environment on their own.

In short: the first deploy takes minutes, and the ones after it take a git push.

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