Deploy an App Built with GitHub Copilot

GitHub Copilot is great at helping you build things fast: scaffold a UI, wire up the logic, generate a working project right in the browser or your IDE. But once the code is ready, you still need to get it online.

This guide takes you from a local Copilot project to a live, publicly accessible URL. You'll create a GitHub repository, push your code to it, connect it to Hostman App Platform, and deploy your app. By the end, you'll have a public link and a straightforward workflow for shipping updates going forward.

Before You Begin

Make sure you have:

• A project built with GitHub Copilot that's ready to deploy.
• A GitHub account for hosting your code.
• A Hostman account for deploying the app. Sign up at hostman.com if you don't have one yet.

This guide uses the web version of GitHub Copilot. Make sure you're logged into the same GitHub account in your browser as in Copilot—that's the account Hostman will connect to.

Step 1. Create a Repository

Your code needs to live somewhere before Hostman can deploy it. A GitHub repository is that place.

1. On github.com, click New next to your repository list, or click the + icon in the top-right corner and select New repository.

2. Enter a name in the Repository name field.
3. Click Create repository.

Once created, your repository will be available at a URL in this format: 

https://github.com/USERNAME/REPONAME.git

Step 2. Push Your Project to the Repository

Now let's get your code into that repository using Copilot.

1. Open the web version of GitHub Copilot.
2. In the context selector, click All repositories and choose the repository you just created.

3. In the chat, type: Upload this project to this repository.

Copilot will handle the upload. Once it's done, open the repository on GitHub and confirm that all your project files are there before moving on.

Step 3. Connect Your Repository to Hostman and Deploy

With your code on GitHub, you're ready to deploy.

1. Go to the Hostman dashboard.
2. Navigate to App platform and click Create.
3. Choose your app type:

• • Frontend for static sites and single-page apps
  • Backend for server-side applications
  • Docker if your project includes its own containerisation

Not sure which type fits your project? Ask Copilot: What framework is this project using?

4. Connect your GitHub account and repository:

• • On the Repository step, click the GitHub icon.

• • Authorize Hostman to access your GitHub account.
  • Select your repository from the list.

If your repository doesn't appear, click Add Account, re-authorise, and refresh the list.

5. Leave Build by last executed commit enabled. With this on, every new commit you push to GitHub will trigger an automatic rebuild and redeploy on Hostman.

6. Choose a deployment region. Pick the one closest to your target audience to keep latency low.
7. Configure your app settings. If you're unsure what to fill in, ask Copilot to explain what's needed for your specific setup. Here's our platform-specific docs: Frontend · Backend · Dockerfile · Docker Compose.
8. Click Order and wait for the build to finish.

You're Live!

Once the deploy completes, Hostman assigns your app a public domain. Find it in Dashboard under the Domain field. You can also connect a custom domain later from Settings.

Once everything is wired up, shipping an update takes just one command to Copilot:

1. Make your changes in Copilot.
2. Tell Copilot: Commit the changes and push to GitHub.
3. Hostman detects the new commit and redeploys automatically.

That's your entire workflow. No manual deploys, no extra steps.