Deploy your first app

In this tutorial you’ll fork a small ready-made Flask app and deploy it to a live HTTPS URL on seenode. You’ll watch the build logs stream and open your running app in the browser. It takes about 5 minutes, and you don’t need to write any code. We provide the app.

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Prerequisites

• A seenode account (sign up free).
• A GitHub account.

Step 1: Get the sample app

Open the seenode Flask template and click Create repository to fork it into your own GitHub account:

Create the example-flask repository →

This is a minimal Flask app that returns a greeting page. Everyone in this tutorial deploys the same known app, so your result will match ours.

Step 2: Create a web service

Step 3: Confirm the configuration

seenode detects that this is a Python app and pre-fills the settings. Confirm they match:

• Image: Python
• Build command: pip install -r requirements.txt
• Start command: gunicorn app:app --bind 0.0.0.0:80
• Port: 80

Step 4: Deploy and watch the build

Click Create instance. The Logs tab opens and streams the build. You’ll see it move through these stages:

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==> Cloning repo ...
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==> Using python ...
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==> Running build command "pip install -r requirements.txt"
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==> Build successful
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==> Starting application...
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==> Deployment successful

This takes about a minute. When it finishes, the status at the top turns green: Deploy is live.

Step 5: Open your live app

At the top of the service you’ll see a URL like https://your-app.seenode.app. Click it.

Your Flask app responds in the browser, served over HTTPS. You’ve deployed your first app to seenode. 🎉

What you just did

You connected a Git repository, and seenode:

• pulled your code and built it with your build command,
• started it with Gunicorn listening on the port you configured,
• put it behind a load balancer with a free SSL certificate, and
• gave it a public *.seenode.app URL.

Every push to main can deploy automatically once you enable Auto-deploy in the service’s Settings.

What’s next