deployment-guide

Choosing a deployment platform requires comparing Railway, Val Town, Cloudflare Workers, Airtable API, and Google Apps Script against your automation needs. The decision matrix evaluates hosting capabilities, latency, and execution environment to recommend the optimal platform.

To deploy a Slack bot with Railway, follow the platform-specific checklist for environment variable setup, secret handling, and CLI configuration. The deployment process requires configuring service variables and completing post-deploy registration to activate the automation.

Handling environment variables and secrets securely requires applying platform-specific configurations during deployment. The deployment guide provides steps for secret management across Railway, Val Town, and Cloudflare Workers to prevent insecure credential exposure.

Yes, Google Apps Script supports spreadsheet automations while the Airtable API handles structured record storage. The deployment decision matrix explains when to select each based on whether your automation processes sheets or manages database records.

Deploying to Cloudflare Workers requires company account access to ensure proper ownership and secure edge deployment. The guide provides specific instructions on who to contact for access and how to handle Wrangler basics for latency-sensitive APIs.

Use Val Town instead of Railway when you need to host lightweight webhooks or cron jobs without managing full service containers. The decision matrix differentiates Val Town functions from Railway services based on execution scale and resource requirements.