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AI agents Sept. 29, 2026

Deploy from your AI agent with the JetDeploy MCP server

Connect Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Copilot to the JetDeploy MCP server, choose its permissions, write a prompt it can act on and check what it did.

Use case Sept. 9, 2026

Staging and production for a small SaaS with GitHub Actions

Two Apps and two databases from one repository: every push deploys staging, every version tag deploys production, and the CI job waits for the deploy result.

Use case Aug. 19, 2026

A backend API with a background worker and a Redis queue

Run an API and a queue worker as two processes of one App, with BullMQ on a managed Redis, graceful worker shutdown and memory sized for the queue.

Guide July 30, 2026

When a deploy fails: find the cause and roll back

Tell a build, pre-deploy or readiness failure apart, read the logs that explain it, and roll back to an earlier release through the API when needed.

Guide July 9, 2026

Custom domain and HTTPS: DNS records, validation and redirects

Put an App on example.com and www: direct or proxy routing, the DNS records, validation, the certificate, a redirect between the two names and a live-site move.

Guide June 19, 2026

Database migrations in the pre-deploy script without downtime

The old version keeps serving while migrations run. Which schema changes are safe in one deploy, and how to ship the others with expand and contract.

Tutorial May 29, 2026

Graceful shutdown in Go: deploys that finish every request

Handle SIGTERM in a Go HTTP server with http.Server.Shutdown, so rolling deploys and restarts finish in-flight requests instead of cutting them off.

Tutorial May 9, 2026

Next.js standalone builds: build-time and runtime variables

Build a small Next.js standalone image and keep NEXT_PUBLIC values in the repository and server secrets in the App environment, read at request time.

Tutorial April 18, 2026

Deploy Django with PostgreSQL: static files, migrations and HTTPS

Where collectstatic, migrate and the HTTPS proxy header belong when deploying Django with gunicorn, WhiteNoise and a managed PostgreSQL on JetDeploy.

Tutorial March 29, 2026

Deploy a Vite single-page app with nginx

Package a Vite build in an unprivileged nginx image, with client-side route fallback and long-lived caching for hashed assets, and deploy it with git push.