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Ship the Instance

Chapter 6 of 7 · Section 42 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

Make it yours — white-label under your own brand

Neon Law Navigator runs two brands from one binary. A deployment operator can ship it under another identity without forking source by describing the organization once in a private navigator.yaml bundle:


cp navigator.example.yaml navigator.yaml   # then edit: names, emails, domain, logos
cargo run -p cli -- ops rebrand build --out .devx/brand-bundle
cargo run -p cli -- ops rebrand verify --dir .devx/brand-bundle
set -a; source .devx/env; set +a                # object storage and the rest of the runtime env
NAVIGATOR_CUSTOM_BRANDING=.devx/brand-bundle cargo run -p neon

Presenter notes

The bundle sets only identity — names, support addresses, postal addresses, the primary domain, the consultation link, and brand static files. It never machine-generates binding legal text. Kubernetes mounts it read-only at /etc/navigator/brand on the web and workflow-worker pods, and the deployment sets NAVIGATOR_CUSTOM_BRANDING to that path to opt in — without the env var the identity stays Neon Law. An application admin role does not imply authority to alter that deployment mount.

Most firms already run their own marketing site and have a team for it, so Neon Law Navigator does not need to be your public website — it can be just the client portal and workflow engine. portal_only: true in the bundle mounts only the application surface (/app, auth, /api, /mcp, the git transport, webhooks, the health probes, and the legal pages) and drops the public marketing + Foundation site; / redirects to /app/projects, and your own website links to your Neon Law Navigator portal. terms_url / privacy_url point the footer's Terms and Privacy links at the legal pages your own attorney publishes on your own site; bundle validation rejects a portal-only bundle with an empty terms_url — so you never ship NeonLaw's bundled, Nevada-governed terms under your name.

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