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Provision the Infrastructure

Chapter 3 of 7 · Section 17 of 45

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 Navigator deployment matrix
  • 7. The `/app` mount and HTTP route ownership
  • 8. `neon` — the whole brand seam
  • 9. Live rollout checkpoint
  • 10. Set one site to one version

3. Provision the Infrastructure

  • 11. The APIs that light up
  • 12. Network and storage buckets
  • 13. How a Project portal reaches a client
  • 14. A document's bytes and authorization are separate
  • 15. A private image registry
  • 16. The cluster comes up
  • 17. What setup owns — and what follows it

4. Environment Matrix

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

5. Configure the Trust Boundaries

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

6. Ship the Instance

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

7. Wrap Up

  • 45. Canonical references

What setup owns — and what follows it

ops gcp setup provisions the hostable cloud substrate: APIs, VPC and subnet, Cloud Router/NAT, private buckets, identities, registry access, GKE, Gateway IP, workload identity, Fleet integration, and KMS. It deliberately stops at the cloud/cluster boundary. Finish the deployment through these adjacent owners:

NeedAdjacent operation
DNSRun navigator ops dns setup; DNS may be outside GCP, while setup owns only the stable Gateway IP.
TLS and Gateway manifestsRun navigator ops ship; it renders and applies Gateway, certificate, and routes.
RestateApply the Restate operator and manifests, then let ops ship re-register the worker.
Secret valuesRun navigator ops secrets apply; decrypts and writes Secret Manager plus the Kubernetes Secret.

Presenter notes

Setup completes when the cloud substrate exists, not when all adjacent operator actions have run. Emphasize that DNS is external to the cloud substrate, ops ship owns rendered Gateway and TLS manifests, Restate needs its operator before the worker can register, and ops secrets apply is the one command that handles decrypted values. This division keeps setup idempotent and keeps credential payloads out of ops ship.

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