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Environment Matrix

Chapter 4 of 7 · Section 25 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

Deployed runtime: identity and access

ConcernEnvironment variablesBehavior when absent
Browser OIDC issuerOAUTH_ISSUER_URLBrowser login is not configured
Browser OIDC clientOAUTH_CLIENT_ID, OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRETBrowser login is not configured
Browser redirectOAUTH_REDIRECT_URIBrowser login is not configured
Bearer JWKSOIDC_JWKS_URL, OIDC_AUDIENCE, OIDC_ISSUERDeployed JWT verification
Bearer HMACOIDC_HS256_SECRETLocal/test verifier path
Dev bypassOIDC_DISABLEDOff; the dev profile and production reject true / 1
Bootstrap OwnerNAVIGATOR_BOOTSTRAP_OWNER_EMAILNo identity is JIT-created
Protected firm EntityNAVIGATOR_BOOTSTRAP_COMPANYShook Law PLLC is protected either way
Self-signupNAVIGATOR_SELF_SIGNUP_ENABLEDOff; an unknown email is refused (403)
Google token policyGOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_IDS, GOOGLE_OAUTH_REQUIRED_HDNo client/domain pin
Google token endpointGOOGLE_TOKENINFO_URLGoogle default
Password doorNAVIGATOR_IDENTITY_PLATFORM_API_KEYOIDC-only login
Password endpointNAVIGATOR_IDENTITY_PLATFORM_ENDPOINTGoogle default
Identity Platform admin callsNAVIGATOR_GCP_METADATA_ENDPOINTGCE metadata server default

Presenter notes

Authentication and application authorization stay separate. OIDC proves identity; persons.role and Project participation decide access. OIDC_DISABLED exists for host-side diagnosis but the deployment invariant rejects it in both parsed profiles. NAVIGATOR_GCP_METADATA_ENDPOINT, GOOGLE_TOKENINFO_URL, and NAVIGATOR_IDENTITY_PLATFORM_ENDPOINT are controlled test seams; a normal deploy leaves them on their secure defaults. NAVIGATOR_BOOTSTRAP_COMPANY names a firm Entity that lawyer and admin may re-type or re-domicile but never rename or delete. It adds to rather than replaces the protected set: the canonical seed re-creates Shook Law PLLC by exact name on every boot, so that row is protected in every deployment and a white-label operator's own firm Entity is protected alongside it.

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