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Prepare Google Cloud

Chapter 2 of 7 · Section 11 of 44

Sections

1. Intro

  • 1. Deploy your own
  • 2. Agenda

2. Prepare Google Cloud

  • 3. Bring your own project
  • 4. Dry-run first
  • 5. Private assets and domain restricted sharing
  • 6. The one project that is public on purpose
  • 7. The Navigator deployment matrix
  • 8. The `/app` mount and HTTP route ownership
  • 9. `neon` — the whole brand seam
  • 10. Live rollout checkpoint
  • 11. Set one site to one version

3. Provision the Infrastructure

  • 12. The APIs that light up
  • 13. Network and five buckets
  • 14. How a Project portal reaches a client
  • 15. One matter's document never backs another matter's
  • 16. A private image registry
  • 17. The cluster comes up

4. Environment Matrix

  • 18. Three operating modes, two deployment profiles
  • 19. Configuration precedence: the first source wins
  • 20. Local dev controls: inputs read by `navigator dev`
  • 21. Local runtime: what `.devx/env` generates
  • 22. The store: SurrealDB
  • 23. Where SurrealDB authorization lives
  • 24. Deployed runtime: core web and worker wiring
  • 25. Deployed runtime: identity and access
  • 26. Deployed runtime: email, signatures, and billing
  • 27. Deployed runtime: repositories, content, AI, and scheduled work
  • 28. Provision and ship: variables read by the operator CLI
  • 29. Ancillary operations and opt-in test controls
  • 30. When simulated data appears

5. Configure the Trust Boundaries

  • 31. Secrets: the invariants that gate the boot
  • 32. Sign-in: bring an OIDC provider; passwords live there, not here
  • 33. Role rings: who can do what
  • 34. Provider signup and parity across the deployments
  • 35. The external surface — every third party, in one place
  • 36. The two service deployments
  • 37. Security architecture

6. Ship the Instance

  • 38. Ship and verify
  • 39. Post the verified handoff in `#navigator`
  • 40. Point your domain at the instance (optional)
  • 41. Drive it from the CLI
  • 42. Make it yours — white-label under your own brand
  • 43. This is how we set up Neon Law Foundation

7. Wrap Up

  • 44. Canonical references

Set one site to one version

The version is a release tag, never latest. To set one site, name its deployment with the required --deployment flag and replace YY.M.D with the published tag — every coordinate comes from deployments/<name>/config.toml, never the shell. The command preflights that the selected brand image and worker image exist, checks the Secret keys before changing Kubernetes, then records the tag in the deployment.


navigator ops ship --deployment <row> --deployments-dir . --tag YY.M.D

curl --fail --show-error https://www.neonlaw.com/version

The #navigator hand-off derives its exact command list from the deployments/ tree — one run per directory, staging first, then the two production rows:


navigator ops ship --deployment <row> --deployments-dir . --tag YY.M.D
navigator ops ship --deployment <row> --deployments-dir . --tag YY.M.D
navigator ops ship --deployment <row> --deployments-dir . --tag YY.M.D

Staging goes first. Do not start either production row until staging /readyz and /version checks pass; the two production rows gate on staging and not on each other, which is why the release run rolls them in parallel. To preview without changing one site, append --dry-run; to refresh its pods after a secret rotation without changing the version, use --restart-only. A deployment can be named here only once it has a deployments/<name>/ directory; that directory is what puts it in this list.

Presenter notes

Demonstrate the single-deployment control surface with neon-law-stg: --deployment selects the entire stack and the release tag selects the version. Emphasize that an operator verifies /readyz and /version before moving to the next row; by hand the command block is a sequence, not a request to roll every cluster concurrently. The release workflow is what rolls the two production rows at once, and only because each has already been gated on a green staging roll.

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