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Environment Matrix

Chapter 4 of 7 · Section 28 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

Provision and ship: variables read by the operator CLI

ConcernEnvironment variables
GCP targetNAVIGATOR_GCP_PROJECT_ID, NAVIGATOR_GCP_LOCATION
GKE targetNAVIGATOR_GKE_CLUSTER_NAME, NAVIGATOR_GKE_CONTEXT, NAVIGATOR_K8S_NAMESPACE
VPC, subnetNAVIGATOR_VPC_NAME, NAVIGATOR_SUBNETWORK_NAME
Gateway IPNAVIGATOR_GATEWAY_IP_NAME
Runtime identitiesNAVIGATOR_GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID, NAVIGATOR_DRIVE_GCP_SERVICE_ACCOUNT_ID
Assets/documentsNAVIGATOR_ASSETS_BUCKET, NAVIGATOR_DOCUMENTS_BUCKET
Exports/logsNAVIGATOR_EXPORTS_BUCKET, NAVIGATOR_LOGS_BUCKET
Optional fork Config SyncNAVIGATOR_CONFIG_SYNC_REPO, NAVIGATOR_CONFIG_SYNC_DIR (unset for Navigator's three)
Image registryNAVIGATOR_IMAGE_REGISTRY, NAVIGATOR_WEB_IMAGE
Manifest sourceNAVIGATOR_GKE_OVERLAY
Public OAuth clientsNAVIGATOR_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID_BROWSER (required), NAVIGATOR_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID_GEMINI
Brand and base URLNAVIGATOR_CUSTOM_BRANDING, NAVIGATOR_PRIMARY_DOMAIN, NAV_BASE_URL
Public hostsNAVIGATOR_PUBLIC_HOST, NAVIGATOR_WORKFLOWS_HOST, GOOGLE_OAUTH_REQUIRED_HD
Runtime SecretNAVIGATOR_WEB_SECRET_NAME
Worker registrationNAVIGATOR_WORKFLOWS_URL
Restate adminRESTATE_ADMIN_URL, RESTATE_ADMIN_TOKEN

Presenter notes

These values belong to the deployment operator, not an application admin. Provisioning consumes the cloud and cluster coordinates; shipping consumes the already-provisioned target plus image, public identity, Secret, and Restate wiring. Keep the distinction visible when debugging: changing an admin role cannot repair a missing GKE context or Secret. The Gemini client ID is the one nullable entry: it stays unset until that deployment's data store assigns it.

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