vark deploy publishes a site from the command line

Run vark deploy in a project and it does the same full production build as vark build, uploads the output, makes it live on Aardvark cloud managed hosting, and prints the URL. No connected GitHub repository required.

It authenticates with your secret key in AARDVARK_SECRET_KEY — the same possession-based CLI credential the AI features already use, never the public key that ships inside a built site. On the first deploy of an account with no site, the site is created for you; --slug names it. --no-build uploads an output directory you have already built.

Two behaviors worth knowing: an interrupted deploy resumes rather than starting over, and re-uploading an unchanged file is always safe. And a site already connected to a GitHub repository keeps deploying from that repository, so vark deploy refuses it — before running the build, not after it has spent the time.

See the CLI reference and Managed hosting.