3. Deployment and Cloud Environments

Provision a Cloud environment (Dev/Staging/Prod) and perform the first deploy.

Prerequisites

• Your project already runs on Preview.

• You have permission to purchase/provision environments (billing).

• (Optional) You have access to DNS of the domain, if using a custom domain.

Dev to test quickly. Staging to validate release. Prod for end users.

1

Open Cloud Environments

• Go to Project Settings → Cloud Environments

2

Create the environment

• Click Purchase Environment

• Set the name of the environment (e.g.: dev-myapp, staging-myapp, prod-myapp)

Choose a name that makes the environment type obvious. Prevents deploying to the wrong place.

3

Configure domain and scaling

• (Optional) Configure a domain (if you want a custom URL)

• Configure the scaling

Start smaller. Increase later if there is slowness, timeouts, or real load.

4

Provision and wait until Ready

• Proceed with provisioning

• Wait for the status to become Ready

Expected time

Usually takes a few minutes. If it stays stuck for a long time, follow the "If it fails" section.

5

Publish (deploy)

• Click Publish and deploy your project to this environment

Avoid "deploy spam." If needed, wait a few minutes and try again.

6

Validate the deploy

• Open the URL of the domain

• Confirm that the home page loads

• Log in and validate a critical flow (e.g.: create/edit a record)

If it fails

• Deploy fails with error: follow Deployment issues.

• Environment “Ready”, but the URL doesn't open: if using a custom domain, review DNS and wait for propagation.

• Deploy completes, but the app doesn't start: treat as a runtime and follow the diagnosis in the troubleshooting.