---
title: "Alis Build DBD"
url: "https://docs.alisx.com/reference/dbd/"
---
# Alis Build DBD

Alis Build DBD is Define, Build, Deploy: the three steps every change to a service goes through, each from a pushed commit. Define compiles a service's protobuf contract into versioned packages, Build turns a pushed commit into an immutable version, and Deploy applies the service's Terraform into a deployment environment, with a person's approval before production. This page lists where DBD shows in the console, the commands that run it, and the reference pages for its details.

## In the console

Versions and deploys show on the screens of [Alis Build Environments](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/environments/index.md):

- a product's **Services** lists every service with its version in each deployment environment, and deploys or destroys one;
- a product's and a deployment environment's **Variables** save variables with **Save and Deploy** or **Plan Deploy**;
- a deployment environment's **Overview** lists the services deployed there now;
- a product's **Reference** is the API reference of its defined packages.

A contract version's Glass view shows every artifact of that version as it lands. Open it with the Glass view button in the version's title bar.

| Glass view | Path |
|---|---|
| A contract version | `/build/environments/<org>/products/<product>/reference/packages/<packageId>/versions/<version>/glass` |

## From the CLI

| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
| [`alis define`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/define.md) | Define a service's protos into a new version |
| [`alis build`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/build.md) | Build a service into a new version |
| [`alis deploy`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/deploy.md) | Deploy a service version to a deployment environment |
| [`alis packages`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/packages.md) | Install, upgrade and add a service's packages |
| [`alis operations`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/operations.md) | Inspect and wait on long-running operations |
| [`alis logs`](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/cli/logs.md) | Read build, deployment, and Cloud Run runtime logs |

## Details

- [Package ids and folders](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/dbd/package-ids-and-folders.md): how a package id maps to a resource, a build folder and a define folder, and how the CLI resolves context from the working directory.
- [Dockerfile detection](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/dbd/dockerfile-detection.md): which files become images, how images are named and the flags that select them.
- [Terraform variables](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/dbd/terraform-variables.md): every `ALIS_*` variable injected into a service's Terraform, and the image reference format.
- [Operations and output](https://docs.alisx.com/reference/dbd/operations-and-output.md): the JSON of long-running operations, error envelopes, stderr events and exit codes.

## Related

- [Define, Build, Deploy](https://docs.alisx.com/explanation/define-build-deploy.md)
- [Ship your first service](https://docs.alisx.com/tutorials/first-build-service.md)