---
title:  Deploy First Application
---

Welcome to KubeVela! In this guide, we'll walk you through how to install KubeVela, and deploy your first simple application.

## Step 1: Install

Make sure you have finished and verified the installation following [this guide](install).

## Step 2: Deploy Your First Application

```bash
$ kubectl apply -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oam-dev/kubevela/master/docs/examples/vela-app.yaml
application.core.oam.dev/first-vela-app created
```

Above command will apply an application to KubeVela and let it distribute the application to proper runtime infrastructure.

Check the status until we see `status` is `running` and services are `healthy`:

```bash
$  kubectl get application first-vela-app -o yaml
apiVersion: core.oam.dev/v1beta1
kind: Application
...
status:
  ...
  services:
  - healthy: true
    name: express-server
    traits:
    - healthy: true
      message: 'Visiting URL: testsvc.example.com, IP: your ip address'
      type: ingress
  status: running
```

You can now directly visit the application (regardless of where it is running).

```
$ curl -H "Host:testsvc.example.com" http://<your ip address>/
<xmp>
Hello World


                                       ##         .
                                 ## ## ##        ==
                              ## ## ## ## ##    ===
                           /""""""""""""""""\___/ ===
                      ~~~ {~~ ~~~~ ~~~ ~~~~ ~~ ~ /  ===- ~~~
                           \______ o          _,/
                            \      \       _,'
                             `'--.._\..--''
</xmp>
```
**Voila!** You are all set to go.

## What's Next

Here are some recommended next steps:

- Learn KubeVela's [Core Concepts](./core-concepts/application).
- Learn KubeVela's [Architecture](./core-concepts/architecture).