Deployment Lifecycle
Previews & Promote
Every non-production branch gets its own live preview URL, and any deployment can be promoted to production instantly. This guide focuses on previews and promotion — for the build pipeline and statuses, see the Deployments guide.
Preview deployments
Pushing to any branch other than your production branch creates a preview deployment with a stable, shareable URL of the form {branch}--{project}.deploxa.com. Previews are fully isolated — they use their Preview-targeted environment variables, never production's.
Promote to production
Happy with a preview (or an older build)? Promote it to production and it becomes the live deployment immediately — no rebuild. Promotion just re-points your production URL at that already-built artifact, so it's effectively instant and the proxy cache is invalidated right away.
Rollback
Rollback is the same mechanism in reverse: re-point production at a previous successful deployment to recover instantly from a bad release. See instant rollbacks for details.