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+title: "Deploying Admin on Netlify"
+---
+
+# Deploying Admin on Netlify
+
+This is a guide for deploying Medusa Admin on Netlify. Netlify is a platform that offers hosting and backend services for applications and static websites.
+
+> At this point, you should have a running instance of Medusa Admin. If not, check out [these steps](https://github.com/medusajs/admin#-setting-up-admin) or use `npx create-medusa-app` to set up your application in a matter of minutes. For the latter, see [this guide](https://docs.medusa-commerce.com/how-to/create-medusa-app) for a small walkthrough.
+
+### 1. Install the Netlify CLI
+
+Install Netlify CLI on your machine using npm:
+
+```shell=
+npm install netlify-cli -g
+```
+
+### 2. Login to your Netlify account
+
+Connect to your Netlify account from your terminal:
+
+```shell=
+netlify login
+```
+
+Follow the instructions in your terminal.
+
+### 3. Netlify setup
+
+In order to deploy on Netlify, you need to create a new site, link the admin repository to the site and configure environment variables.
+
+The Netlify CLI is used to achieve this.
+
+#### Create a new site
+
+```shell=
+netlify init
+```
+
+Follow the instructions in your terminal to authorize and connect your Git repository.
+
+The default build and deploy settings fit the needs of a Gatsby application, so leave these as is.
+
+#### Add an environment variable
+
+```shell=
+netlify env:set GATSBY_MEDUSA_BACKEND_URL "https://your-medusa-server.com"
+```
+
+The above environment variable should point to your Medusa server.
+
+### 4. Push and deploy
+
+Finally to deploy the admin, commit and push your changes to the repository connected in step 3.
+
+```shell=
+git add .
+git commit -m "Deploy Medusa Admin on Netlify"
+git push origin main
+```
+
+Within a couple of minutes, your Medusa Admin is live and running on Netlify.
+
+> If you experience CORS issues in your new setup, you might need to add your admin url as part of the ADMIN_CORS environment variable in your server setup.
+
+### What's next?
+
+If you haven't deployed your Medusa server to use with your new admin, check out our guide [Deploying on Heroku](https://docs.medusa-commerce.com/how-to/deploying-on-heroku).