Manual Deployments
In addition to automatic deployments, you can start a deploy manually at any time from the Guara Cloud dashboard.
When to use manual deploy
Manual deploy is useful in situations like:
- First deploy — when setting up a service for the first time, you may want to start the deploy manually to follow the process
- Testing — to validate changes before setting up automatic deploy
- External Docker image — when your service uses a public Docker image and you want to force an update to the latest version
- Automatic deploy disabled — when you prefer to control when deploys happen manually
How to trigger a manual deploy
- Go to the service page in the dashboard
- Click the Deploy button in the top right corner
- Confirm the action
Guara Cloud starts the build using the latest commit from the configured branch. You can track progress in the Deployments tab.
Manual deploy vs. automatic deploy
| Aspect | Manual deploy | Automatic deploy |
|---|---|---|
| How it starts | You click “Deploy” in the dashboard | Push to the configured branch |
| When it happens | When you decide | On every push |
| Commit used | Latest from branch | The pushed commit |
| Build process | Identical | Identical |
| Deploy time | Identical | Identical |
The build and deploy process is exactly the same in both cases. The only difference is how the deployment is triggered.