Concepts

Terms you'll see often in DETPUL, in short.

Project

The DETPUL equivalent of an application. It has a name and an auto-generated slug (name-xxxxxx). A project can have multiple deployments (its deploy history).

Deployment

A single deploy attempt. It's in one of these states: Queued, Building, Deploying, Live, Failed, or Canceled (see Deploy — lifecycle).

Subdomain

Every live deployment automatically gets a <deployment-id>.detpul.app address. You don't need to configure any extra DNS.

API key

The authentication key for the CLI (prefixed with detpul_sk_...). Created from the Dashboard → API Keys page. The token is shown only once, at creation time — afterward you can only revoke it, never see it again.

Session vs. API key

When you log in to the dashboard with email + password, a session cookie is created. The CLI, on the other hand, uses an API key (Authorization: Bearer detpul_sk_...). Both reach the same endpoints, and both can only see your own account's projects.

Free tier

The free plan is limited to 1 active project. Once the limit is reached, new project creation requests are rejected; delete your existing project to continue.