The Deployer documentation
Getting started
New here? Start with these. What The Deployer is, how it works, and your first deploy.
Connecting your accounts
Link one code host (GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket) and one cloud account. Step-by-step for every provider.
- What you need to connect
- Connect GitHub
- Connect GitLab or Bitbucket
- Connect AWS
- Connect Google Cloud
- Connect Microsoft Azure
- Connect DigitalOcean
- Package repositories (Artifactory, Nexus, CodeArtifact...)
- Viewing & replacing your credentials
- What permissions we need & how we keep them safe
- Servers: sharing one between projects, who can do what, removing one
- Your own servers: a VPS, lab or on-prem machine
- Sharing services and connections with teammates
Creating & deploying a project
From picking a repository to a live URL — every step of a deployment explained.
- Create a project
- Analysis: how we read your code
- Environment variables
- Env history: see, compare and restore changes
- Build arguments and secrets
- Credential files
- Environment from a secret manager
- Code Readiness checks
- Choosing an architecture (and its cost)
- The deployment workflow
- Build method
- Build location
- Launching & reading the logs
- Deploy from another branch
- When a deployment fails: what to fix, retries and automatic retries
- Blueprints: reuse a whole setup
- Dev, UAT and other environments
- Bring in apps already running in your cloud
- Connecting a custom domain
After you're live: the Dashboard
Manage your running app — URLs, activity, logins, monitoring, servers.
- Dashboard overview
- The Overview page and live status
- Searching & filtering your activity
- Pull & Restart and auto-deploy
- Scaling: resize servers, databases, caches and containers
- Start, stop and schedule your servers
- Service logins (Grafana, etc.)
- Who can open your app (IPs, password)
- Monitoring your app
- Health checks: how The Deployer knows your app is up
- Connecting to your servers (SSH)
Databases & other services
Add a managed database, cache, queue, storage bucket, or email sender.
Limits & what's supported
Which clouds and languages work today, what the app can't do, and how costs work.
Troubleshooting & help
Fixes for common problems, how to use the AI assistant, and where to get help.