smbcloud-deploy

The build and deploy engine behind smbCloud and the smb CLI.

smbcloud-deploy takes one app from a repo and ships it: detect the runtime, build it, and transfer the result to the server. The engine is UI-agnostic and auth-agnostic, so the same code drives the interactive CLI, CI pipelines, and the server-side git receiver. They differ only in how they report progress and how they authenticate.

Design

Two things are inverted so the engine stays reusable:

• Reporter takes the place of direct terminal output. The engine reports steps; the caller decides how to render them. The CLI uses spinners, CI prints plain lines, and the server streams output back over the git push.
• Authentication is passed in. The engine never reads local credentials or prompts for login; a token or credentials come from the caller.

Transport sits behind a Transport trait, so rsync today and git-smart-HTTP later are swappable without changing any caller.

Status

Early and moving. This crate is extracted from the smb CLI so the deploy logic lives in one place. The API will change while the surface settles.

Part of smbCloud

smbCloud is a local-first build and deployment platform for shipping web apps, APIs, and inference services from a repo to production. You build locally, push the artifact, and smbCloud places it and serves it.

• Homepage: smbcloud.xyz
• CLI and source: github.com/smbcloudXYZ/smbcloud-cli

License

Apache-2.0

Copyright

© 2026 Splitfire AB (smbCloud).