# deploy

`deploy` deploys a [Prisma Composer](/guides/build-composer) application to [Prisma Compute](/guides/deploy-compute). It takes an `<entry>` argument: the module whose default export is the application root, typically `module.ts`. The command streams the deploy pipeline's own output to the terminal.

`deploy` and [`dev`](/guides/platform-dev) are root-level commands of the unified Prisma CLI. There is no `composer` command group.

By default, the command uses the credentials from your existing `auth login` session. In CI or other headless environments, set `PRISMA_SERVICE_TOKEN` and `PRISMA_WORKSPACE_ID` instead. See [Deploying](/guides/workflows-deploying#credentials) for details.

The first deploy of an app creates its project in your workspace, and a new project needs a region. Set it once, either as `prismaCloud({ region: 'us-east-1' })` in your deploy config or as the `PRISMA_REGION` environment variable; without one, the deploy stops with `project "<name>" does not exist yet and no deploy region is configured`. A project that already exists keeps its region and needs neither. The region ids are listed under [Limitations](/guides/more-3-compute-limitations).

The `deploy` command does not build your application. Run your build command before deploying.

## [Usage](#usage)

:::code-group
```title="bun"
bunx prisma deploy module.ts

bunx prisma deploy module.ts --stage feat-auth
```

```bash title="pnpm"
pnpm prisma deploy module.ts
pnpm prisma deploy module.ts --stage feat-auth
```

```bash title="yarn"
yarn prisma deploy module.ts
yarn prisma deploy module.ts --stage feat-auth
```

```bash title="npm"
npx prisma deploy module.ts
npx prisma deploy module.ts --stage feat-auth
```
:::

## [Flags](#flags)

| Flag              | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| ----------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `--name <name>`   | Override the application name for this deploy. It defaults to the name of the exported application, and that name selects the project in your workspace: a project this module deployed before is reused, and a same-name project whose hosted state cannot be verified stops the deploy with `HostedStateBootstrapError`, so pass `--name` when the default would land in a project you did not mean to deploy into |
| `--stage <stage>` | Deploy scope to target; omit for production                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          |
| `--report <path>` | Write the deploy's outcome as JSON to this path: resources, preview URLs, and the failure cause. Also settable as `PRISMA_COMPOSER_REPORT_FILE`                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| `--build-id <id>` | Join the deploy record your CI already created rather than letting the target create one                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             |

## [Global flags](#global-flags)

The Prisma CLI's global flags also apply: `--format`, `--json`, `--log-level`, `--verbose`, `--quiet`, `--yes`, `--confirm`, `--interactive`, `--color`, and `--config`.

## [Environment variables](#environment-variables)

| Variable                      | Description                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| ----------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `PRISMA_SERVICE_TOKEN`        | A workspace service token from the [Prisma Console](https://console.prisma.io/?utm_source=docs\&utm_medium=content\&utm_content=cli), for CI and other headless environments. When unset, the command uses your stored `auth login` session |
| `PRISMA_WORKSPACE_ID`         | The workspace ID from the workspace's settings; pair it with the service token                                                                                                                                                              |
| `PRISMA_REGION`               | The region for a project this deploy creates; `prismaCloud({ region })` in the deploy config wins when both are set. Ignored once the project exists                                                                                        |
| `PRISMA_COMPOSER_REPORT_FILE` | Path to write the deploy's JSON outcome report; the `--report` flag wins when both are set                                                                                                                                                  |

## [Tearing down and log tailing](#tearing-down-and-log-tailing)

The unified CLI has no `destroy` or `log` command. Both operations are available in-process through the control API below: `destroy` takes an explicit target (`{ kind: 'production' }` or `{ kind: 'stage', stage }`), and `log` tails a locally running application.

## [The control API](#the-control-api)

Everything the CLI does is also callable in-process, from `@prisma/composer/control`: typed `deploy`, `destroy`, `dev`, and `log` operations that return structured results instead of printing and exiting:

```
import { deploy } from '@prisma/composer/control';

const result = await deploy({ entry: 'module.ts', stage: 'pr-42' });

if (!result.ok) console.error(result.failure.message);
```

Operations return `{ ok: true, value }` or `{ ok: false, failure }`. Failures come back as structured errors with a dotted `failure.code` and the same fix-naming `message` the CLI renders. The deploy engine's live output still streams to your process's stdio; the operations do not capture it.

The operations authenticate with `PRISMA_SERVICE_TOKEN` and `PRISMA_WORKSPACE_ID` only. They do not read the session stored by `auth login`, so a script that runs fine next to the CLI's `deploy` fails under the control API with `environment variable PRISMA_WORKSPACE_ID is required` until both variables are exported.

## [Next steps](#next-steps)

- [`dev`](/guides/platform-dev): run the same application locally, with no credentials.
- [Getting started](/guides/introduction-3-getting-started): the commands in a working flow.
- [Deploying](/guides/workflows-deploying): stages, CI, and what a deploy prints.

## Related pages

- [Authentication & Tools](./authentication-tools-index.md)
- [Build](./build-index.md)
- [Changelog](../changelog.md)
- [Concepts](./concepts-index.md)
- [Console commands](./console-commands-index.md)
- [Contract Authoring](./contract-authoring-index.md)
- [Core Concepts](./core-concepts-index.md)
- [Data Modeling](./data-modeling-index.md)
- [Database](./database-index.md)
- [DB commands](./db-commands-index.md)

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