Welcome to Hydra Deploy

Hydra Deploy is a platform-agnostic deployment automation system that helps you manage and orchestrate software deployments across all your projects, environments, and deployment platforms.

Why Hydra Deploy?

In today’s complex software landscape, a single project often comprises numerous independent components: microservices, databases, message brokers, and other tools. Best practices require multiple environments (development, staging, production) for thorough testing at various stages. On top of that, the sheer number of deployment platforms available (Docker, Kubernetes, IIS, AWS, Azure, and more), each with their own deployment methods, makes it challenging to maintain consistency and manage deployments across different environments and technologies.

This can quickly lead to a loss of overview: Which version of which application is running where, and how was it deployed? This is especially challenging when working on multiple projects concurrently.

Hydra Deploy restores order and clarity to your deployment process.

Key Features & Benefits

Centralized Deployment Management

Bring all your deployments under one roof, eliminating the confusion of scattered deployment processes.

Project Organization

Create dedicated projects within Hydra Deploy to represent the systems you’re working on. Tag and favorite projects for quick access, and track deployment activity with sparkline charts.

Application Connectivity

Easily connect your applications to your projects, regardless of whether they’re internal microservices or external dependencies. Mark applications as private when they belong to a single project.

Multi-Format Configuration Management

Define configuration files in JSON, YAML, TOML, XML, DOTENV, or plain text. Hydra Deploy merges base configurations with project-specific and environment-specific overrides automatically during deployment. Choose from three deploy strategies per config: Merge, Override, or Skip.

Environment Definition

Define the necessary environments (development, staging, production, etc.) for each project, ensuring consistent deployment targets. Control environment ordering and assign agents per environment.

Simplified Deployments with Pre-flight Checks

Streamline the deployment process with one-click deploys. Before confirming, pre-flight checks verify agent availability, configuration validity, and in-flight deployment status. This blocks deploys when issues are detected.

Platform Agnostic with Built-in Step Types

Deploy to any platform by running our agent on the target server. Choose from built-in deployment step types including Script (Bash/PowerShell), IIS (Windows web servers), Kubernetes, and Email notifications, or create custom steps.

Version Management

Track application versions with full deployment history. Flag problematic releases as “broken” to warn your team before deploying them.

Auto Deploy Rules

Automatically trigger deployments when new versions are created via the API. Define regex-based version matching rules per project and environment.

Improved Visibility

Gain a clear overview of which versions of your applications are running in each environment through the deployment matrix. Activity sparklines and “last deployed” timestamps on project cards give you instant status at a glance.

Multi-Tenant Team Management

Organizations support role-based access control with four roles: Owner, Manager, User, and Billing. Invite team members with secure invite codes.

Dark Mode

Switch between light and dark themes with a single click from the sidebar.

Billing & Invoicing

Integrated Stripe billing with automatic invoice generation, PDF downloads, and email delivery.

External API

Integrate Hydra Deploy into your CI/CD pipelines with the External API. Create projects with full configuration in a single API call, and automatically create versions that trigger auto-deploy rules.

MCP Server for AI Agents

Connect AI coding agents like Claude Code, Cursor, and Windsurf to Hydra Deploy via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). AI agents can list projects, check deployment status, deploy versions, redeploy, and cancel deployments, all attributed to your user account.

Quick Start

New to Hydra Deploy? Start with our Getting Started Guide to complete your first deployment.

Documentation

Choose a topic to learn how to use Hydra Deploy effectively:

Getting Started

Guide: Complete your first deployment with this step-by-step guide

Concepts

Core Concepts: Understand the fundamental concepts behind Hydra Deploy

Platform Management

Organization & Management: Manage your organization, team members, environments, and settings

Projects

Projects: Group applications in projects, tag and favorite them, manage deployments

Applications

Applications: Create and manage applications, versions, and deployment scripts

Configurations

Configurations: Manage configurations with environment-specific overrides and deploy strategies

Registries

App Registries: Connect to package registries like Docker Hub and npm

Deployments

Deployments: Execute deployments with pre-flight checks and monitor your deployment history

Deployment Steps

Deployment Steps: Define deployment steps including Script, IIS, Kubernetes, and Email types

Automation

Auto Deploy Rules: Automate deployments based on version patterns

API Integration

External API: Integrate with CI/CD pipelines via the REST API

AI Agent Integration

MCP Server: Connect AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf) to deploy and manage via MCP