Deploying to the cloud

This page runs you through deploying a project to the cloud.

1. (First time only) Configure the project

The first time you deploy, configure your project’s spatialos.json:

1. In the project’s root directory, open spatialos.json. This file holds your project’s global configuration.

2. In the name field, rename the value to your assigned SpatialOS project name.

   You can find your project name in the Console. It’ll be something like beta_someword_anotherword_000.

2. Build the project

Now you need to build an assembly.

For exactly what to build, see:

• Building from the command line
• Building in Unity
• Building in Unreal

Or, to build the whole project, in the project’s root directory, run

spatial worker build --target=deployment

When it finishes successfully, you’ll see build finished in your console output.

3. Upload project assembly to the cloud

To upload the assembly you just built from your project, run

spatial cloud upload <assembly name>

where assembly name is a name you choose. It’ll identify the assembly you just built.

When this has run successfully, you’ll see upload <assembly name> finished in your console output.

4. Choose the snapshot to start from

All deployments must start from a snapshot. You can:

• download a snapshot from a previous deployment
• choose an existing snapshot you’ve already created
• create a snapshot from scratch

You’ll use this snapshot in step 5.

5. Deploy the project

To deploy the project to the cloud, run

spatial cloud launch <assembly name> <launch configuration file> <deployment name> --snapshot=<snapshot file> [flags]

where:

• assembly name is the name of the assembly you uploaded with spatial cloud upload.
• launch configuration file is a launch configuration file. It’s usually default_launch.json in the project’s root directory.
• deployment name is the label for this deployment in the Console. Must be in lowercase.
• snapshot file is the snapshot to start the world from, which you chose in step 4
• flags are optional flags. Run spatial cloud launch --help to see the list of available flags.

Example:

spatial cloud launch my_assembly_name_160809 default_launch.json my_deployment_name --snapshot=snapshots/default.snapshot --cluster_region=eu

Run spatial cloud launch --help for more information.

When this finishes successfully, you’ll see Successfully created deployment in your console output. The output will also give you a link to your deployment in the Console.

6. (Optional) Launch a client

If your project has a Unity or Unreal client, you can follow these steps to launch it:

1. Open the Console.
2. Find your deployment and click on its name. The page that opens will shows an overview of the deployment.

3. Launch a client:

   1. Click the ▶ Launch button.

   2. If you don’t already have it, install the Improbable Launcher (Windows / Mac).

   3. Click Launch Your Deployment:

   

You can now explore your project from the client.

If you don’t want to or can’t use the Launcher, you can connect an external worker to the deployment.

7. Stop the deployment

Manually stopping a deployment

We recommend manually stopping a deployment after you’ve finished with it, to save on resource usage.

To manually stop a deployment:

1. Open the Console.

2. Find your deployment and click on its name.

3. In the page that opens, click the STOP button:

   

Alternatively, you can use the spatial cloud delete command.

Automatically stopping deployments

By default, deployments are stopped automatically 6 hours after they start. You can add tags in the Console to change this behaviour:

• To keep the deployment running until 5pm UTC on the next weekday, add the tag nightly.
• If you want to keep deployments running longer, contact support.

You can also add tags when you launch a deployment with spatial cloud launch --tags, where tags are a comma-delimited list of tags to add to the new deployment.

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