# Deploying your API

Once you have created and tested your data service with Talend Studio and Talend Cloud API Tester, you can publish the service to Talend Cloud and deploy it.

## Before you begin

* You have installed and started Talend Remote Engine and Talend Runtime. For more information, see [Installing Talend Runtime](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/Cloud/installation-guide-linux/installing-talend-runtime) and [Installing Talend Remote Engine](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/Cloud/installation-guide-linux/installing-talend-remote-engine).

  Information noteNote: Talend Runtime is not required to run Microservices, you only need it if you want to deploy your API as an OSGi Bundle.
* You have activated the Microservice or Talend Runtime run profiles for your Talend Remote Engine, depending on the type of task you want to execute. For more information, see [Configuring the Data Service Runner](https://help.qlik.com/talend/r/en-US/Cloud/remote-engine-user-guide-linux/configuring-data-service-runner).

### In this section

* [Publishing your data service to Talend Cloud](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-services-getting-started-guide-api-services-platform/Cloud/publishing-service-to-cloud)
* [Creating a database connection in Talend Management Console](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-services-getting-started-guide-api-services-platform/Cloud/creating-database-connection-in-management-console)
* [Configuring and deploying the task](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-services-getting-started-guide-api-services-platform/Cloud/configuring-and-deploying-task)
* [Testing your deployed API](https://help.qlik.com/talend/en-US/api-services-getting-started-guide-api-services-platform/Cloud/testing-api?id=35)