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How the Create page works - deploy from a Git repository, a .zip upload, or a template, or provision a database, with settings detected from your code.

Creating resources

Everything a workspace can run starts on the Create page (/new): applications from a Git repository, a .zip upload or a starter template, and managed databases.

The four sources#

RepositoryConnect GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket and deploy on every push.UploadDeploy a local folder or .zip without a repository.TemplateStart from a working starter, copied into a repo you own.DatabaseProvision managed PostgreSQL or MySQL.

How the page works#

  1. Pick what you're creating. The four tiles at the top - Repository, Upload, Template, Database - stay on screen the whole time, so switching is always one click.
  2. Pick a source. A repository from your connected GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket account, an archive, a starter, or a database engine.
  3. Confirm the settings. For repositories, Light Cloud reads the code first - manifests, lockfiles, framework config - and fills the form with what it found. Everything on the confirm step is editable before you deploy.

Note

Detection fills settings; it never locks them. If you change a value by hand and a later re-detection disagrees, the page asks before replacing your edit.

Where each setting is explained#

Application settingsName, root directory, framework, size, region.Build settingsPort, install, build and output configuration.ScalingInstances, concurrency, CPU target.Git automationDeploy on push, preview environments per branch, cleanup.Database settingsEngine, shared vs dedicated, storage, credentials, seeding.

Every field on the Create page links to its section in these docs from the small help icon next to its label.

After the first deploy#

The created application appears on your dashboard with its deploy history, logs and metrics, and settings - everything chosen at create time can be changed later, per application and per environment.