UpCloud releases first public Heim tutorial - showing cloud deployment with zero infrastructure overhead
On November 24, 2025, UpCloud published their first public tutorial showing how applications can be deployed through Heim directly onto UpCloud’s European cloud infrastructure. This marks the first externally produced step-by-step walkthrough of Heim by a cloud provider, and highlights how the integration works in practice. Background Earlier this
Nov 24, 2025 1 min
On November 24, 2025, UpCloud published their first public tutorial showing how applications can be deployed through Heim directly onto UpCloud’s European cloud infrastructure.
This marks the first externally produced step-by-step walkthrough of Heim by a cloud provider, and highlights how the integration works in practice.
Background
Earlier this month, UpCloud and NorNor announced a partnership enabling Heim’s self-orchestrating execution runtime to run natively on UpCloud regions.
Developers build and deploy applications through Heim, while execution happens automatically on UpCloud, without interacting with servers, containers, orchestration tools or infrastructure settings.
The tutorial released today demonstrates the end-to-end flow from local development to cloud execution.
What the tutorial shows
The video walks through a complete deployment using the Heim CLI:
- Installing the Heim CLI
- Creating a new application template (TypeScript HTTP example)
- Configuring the application by adding a target region (
UpCloud-SE1) - Running
heim deploy --cloudto build and deploy the application - Accessing the deployed endpoint and viewing metrics in the Heim dashboard
The process requires no container images, YAML files, CI/CD pipelines or Kubernetes configuration. Heim automatically handles execution on UpCloud’s infrastructure.
Selected quotes from the video
These statements from the tutorial summaries the workflow clearly:
“You don’t care about infrastructure. We do it for you.”
“...now you can run everything on UpCloud without even knowing it.”
“After a minute, everything is deployed.”
Implications for developers
The tutorial demonstrates that:
- Heim provides a simplified and deterministic deployment path
- Applications execute on UpCloud’s infrastructure without manual provisioning
- Performance metrics and operational data are available immediately in the Heim dashboard
- Developers can work locally and deploy globally with minimal configuration
This is the first publicly available demonstration of Heim running on UpCloud, and serves as a practical reference for teams evaluating the integration.
Original UpCloud tutorial
For those who want to review the source material, the original UpCloud tutorial is available here: Upcloud Heim tutorial
Next steps
More updates will follow as the integration evolves.