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Deploy Rust

Deploy a Rust app on Ownkube in minutes. Push your repo and Ownkube builds it and ships it, and you get a live URL with automatic TLS. Managed Postgres, logs, metrics, and one-click rollbacks come built in. No cloud account to start.

What you’ll need

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  • A Rust app in a GitHub or GitLab repository
  • About five minutes

Deploy it

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  1. Connect your repo

    Sign in at app.ownkube.io/login, open Settings, and connect the GitHub App (or GitLab) so Ownkube can reach your repository. Already have a prebuilt image in a registry? Point Ownkube at it instead. See Registries.

  2. Create a Web deployment

    From your dashboard, choose Create deployment, pick Web, and select your Rust repo. Ownkube builds it and pushes the image to a registry it manages for you.

  3. Set the port

    Rust web frameworks (Axum, Actix Web, Rocket) commonly listen on 8080. Set that as the port so traffic routes to your app, and bind your server to 0.0.0.0 so it matches. You can change it later in Settings.

  4. Add environment variables

    Add any KEY=value pairs your app reads, and mark secrets with the Secret toggle. See Environment variables.

  5. Deploy

    Click Create deployment. The deployment page streams the build, then startup and health checks. Release builds take longer to compile than debug ones, so give it a little extra time. When the status goes healthy, open the generated hostname on the Overview tab. Your Rust app is live, with TLS included.

Notes for Rust

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Port 8080 and 0.0.0.0

Bind your server to 0.0.0.0 and set the port to whichever one it listens on, commonly 8080.

Release builds take longer

A release build is slower to compile than a debug build, but the resulting binary and runtime footprint are tiny, so containers start fast once it’s built.

Add a database

Attach managed Postgres in one click and read DATABASE_URL with sqlx, diesel, or your driver of choice.

Bring your own Dockerfile

Want full control of the build? Add a Dockerfile to your repo and Ownkube uses it, reading the port from its EXPOSE line.

Add a database

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Need Postgres? Add a Database in one click and Ownkube injects the connection string as DATABASE_URL (plus PGHOST, PGUSER, and friends) into your app. See Databases.

Scale and observe

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Once you’re running, turn on autoscaling on CPU and memory, watch logs and metrics on every deployment, and roll back a bad deploy in one click.

Databases Attach managed Postgres in one click and read DATABASE_URL.
Monitoring Live logs and metrics on every deployment.