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Getting Started

Create an Account

Section titled “Create an Account”

To get started:

  1. Go to sliplane.io and click “Dashboard” in the navbar
  2. Click on “Login with GitHub” to log into the Sliplane Dashboard. If you don’t have a Sliplane account yet, a new account will be created automatically on first login.

Quickstart: Deploying your first Service

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Deploy a Preset

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Sliplane provides a catalogue of popular preconfigured services that can be deployed with a single click:

  1. Login to your Sliplane account
  2. Create a new project or select an existing one from the Dashboard
  3. Inside the project click “Deploy service”
  4. Select the server, where the service should be deployed to or create a new one in a location of your choice
  5. Click “Add service”, a drawer opens from the right with a list of presets
  6. Choose a preset that you want to deploy, you can review and update the settings if necessary. Once you are happy with the configuration click “Add service” in the top right and then click “Deploy”

Your service will be up and running shortly, and depending on the preset, you will be hooked up with a public URL that you can use in order to access your service.

Deploy prebuild containers from a Registry

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If you want to deploy a prebuild container from a private or public registry, you can follow this quickstart guide to get started:

  1. Login to your Sliplane account
  2. Create a new project or select an existing one from the Dashboard
  3. Inside the project click “Deploy service”
  4. Select the server, where the service should be deployed to or create a new one in a location of your choice
  5. Click “Add service”, a drawer opens from the right and choose “Registry”
  6. Add the necessary configuration, click “Add service” in the top right and then click “Deploy”

More details on deploying from a registry can be found here.

Deploy custom Code from GitHub

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Sliplane allows you to deploy custom code directly from a GitHub repository. It picks up new commits automatically then builds and ships new code:

  1. Login to your Sliplane account
  2. Create a new project or select an existing one from the Dashboard
  3. Inside the project click “Deploy service”
  4. Select the server, where the service should be deployed to or create a new one in a location of your choice
  5. Click “Add service”, a drawer opens from the right and choose “Repository”
  6. Add the necessary configuration, click “Add service” in the top right and then click “Deploy”

Note: Sliplane requires a Dockerfile in the repository. You can use the Docker CLI to set up a Dockerfile automatically with docker init.

You can find examples on how to create Dockerfiles for popular frameworks on our blog:

More details on deploying from GitHub can be found here.

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More tutorials can be found in the tutorials section on our blog.

Guides for Security, Data & Backups

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How to Interact with Sliplane

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Dashboard

Section titled “Dashboard”

The Sliplane Dashboard is the primary user interface to manage your infrastructure. Use it to create servers, deploy and configure services, manage team members, set up billing, and everything else covered in these docs.

API

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The Sliplane API lets you manage resources programmatically. Use it to automate deployments, integrate with CI/CD pipelines, or build custom tooling on top of Sliplane. Create an API key in your team settings to get started.

MCP

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The Sliplane MCP server connects Sliplane to AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code. Manage deployments, check status, and trigger operations directly from your editor. You can find more tutorials in the AI coding section on our blog.

Sliplane Concepts

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Teams

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Teams are used to group servers, projects and services. You can create as many teams as you like, and each team has its own subscription and billing. You can also use teams for client projects and do a complete handover.

Projects

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Services are organized in projects and before you can deploy your first service, you need to create a new project. This is purely an organizational layer and you can decide how to group your services. For example, you can create one project for all your internal tools, one project per app, one project for your databases, etc.

Servers

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Servers host your services and you can run as many services on a single server as its resources allow, without extra charges. You are billed for every server that runs in your account. More information can be found in the billing docs.

Services

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A service in Sliplane is a container with specific configuration. Containers give you the flexibility to run almost any software, from databases and AI tools to custom frontends and backends.

You can ship your own custom code in a container or deploy prebuilt containers from public or private container registries.