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Deployment

As explained in Grokking AI Applications

Deployment is the process of making an AI application available to users or operational systems.

Deployment makes an AI application available beyond the developer’s computer. Instead of running only during an experiment, the application is placed in an always-on environment so colleagues, customers, website visitors, or other systems can access it through a website or API. section 8.0

A deployment workflow usually involves these practical choices:

  • Choose an environment: self-host a publicly available server, run a virtual machine, or use managed hosting compatible with the application. section 8.5
  • Configure the deployed application and its access point, such as a URL, API, or website integration. section 8.0
  • Plan for interoperability when flows, agents, tools, or other applications need to collaborate through protocols and servers. section 8.0

A flow on a website

A Langflow flow can run in a deployed, always-on environment and appear on a personal website through an embedded chat widget. Users interact with the flow directly by adding a small HTML snippet to the page. section 8.5

How Grokking AI Applications covers it

How deep it goes
Explains always-on hosting, access points, interoperability, and deployment choices without descending into changing cloud-platform details.
Examples
Uses Langflow flows, Hugging Face Spaces, public servers, virtual machines, managed hosting, and embedded website chat widgets.
What it assumes
Assumes familiarity with an AI flow or application while teaching deployment concepts independently of a specific tool or programming language.
What you can do after
Operate/configure an always-on AI application and expose it through a website, API, or interoperable agent setup.
How it connects
Connects deployment with APIs, interoperability, agent orchestration, servers, clients, URLs, and observability.

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