Deploy applications and supporting services to Render.
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name: render-deploy
description: Deploy applications to Render by analyzing codebases, generating render.yaml Blueprints, and providing Dashboard deeplinks. Use when the user wants to deploy, host, publish, or set up their application on Render's cloud platform.
license: MIT
compatibility: Requires a Git repository on GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket for Blueprint/MCP flows. Blueprint can reference a prebuilt image but render.yaml must live in the repo. Render CLI recommended for Blueprint validation; MCP or CLI required for operations.
metadata:
author: Render
version: "1.1.0"
category: deployment
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# Deploy to Render
Render supports **Git-backed** services and **prebuilt Docker image** services.
This skill covers **Git-backed** flows:
1. **Blueprint Method** - Generate render.yaml for Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
2. **Direct Creation** - Create services instantly via MCP tools
Blueprints can also run a **prebuilt Docker image** by using `runtime: image`, but the `render.yaml` still must live in a Git repo.
If there is no Git remote, stop and ask the user to either:
- Create/push a Git remote (can be minimal if only the Blueprint is needed), or
- Use the Render Dashboard/API to deploy a prebuilt Docker image (MCP cannot create image-backed services).
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