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Ship the Instance

Chapter 7 of 7 · Section 53 of 53

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 matter's pages reach 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. Operate Forgejo beside Navigator

  • 18. Deploy the forge before switching repositories
  • 19. Separate people, Git transport, and machine access
  • 20. Require the gate and protected-main policy
  • 21. Bind the workflow to one Project and one commit
  • 22. Notify failures even when the manifest is broken
  • 23. Restore the repository before cutting over

5. Environment Matrix

  • 24. Three operating modes, two deployment profiles
  • 25. The deployment that says its matters are sample
  • 26. Deployment and release switches
  • 27. Workflow host and routing switches
  • 28. Capability and storage switches
  • 29. Configuration precedence: the first source wins
  • 30. Local dev controls: inputs read by `navigator dev`
  • 31. Local runtime: what `.devx/env` generates
  • 32. The store: SurrealDB
  • 33. Where SurrealDB authorization lives
  • 34. Deployed runtime: core web and worker wiring
  • 35. Deployed runtime: identity and access
  • 36. Deployed runtime: email, signatures, and billing
  • 37. Deployed runtime: repositories, content, AI, and scheduled work
  • 38. Provision and ship: variables read by the operator CLI
  • 39. Ancillary operations and opt-in test controls
  • 40. When sample data appears

6. Configure the Trust Boundaries

  • 41. Secrets: the invariants that gate the boot
  • 42. Sign-in: bring an OIDC provider; passwords live there, not here
  • 43. Role rings: who can do what
  • 44. Provider setup and parity across deployment rows
  • 45. The external surface — every third party, in one place
  • 46. The two service deployments
  • 47. Security architecture

7. Ship the Instance

  • 48. Ship and verify
  • 49. Point your domain at the instance (optional)
  • 50. Drive it from the CLI
  • 51. Make it yours — white-label under your own brand
  • 52. First-ship lessons
  • 53. Canonical references

Canonical references

This workshop is the narrative; these docs are the source of truth and stay current — prefer them when they disagree:

  • docs/oss-install.md — the full end-to-end install (env, Secret, overlay, image, verify). docs/deployment-secrets.md — production secret rendering. docs/third-party-integrations.md — the per-environment vendor-account convention. docs/docusign-esignature.md — e-signature setup and the one-app, two-environment model.

Presenter notes

This is the access-to-justice fight made deployable: the cheaper and more repeatable it is to stand up a grounded legal harness, the more clinics and small firms can run one under MIT OR Apache-2.0. When your instance is live, tell us at support@neonlaw.org so we can point the next deployer at what you learned. Telling us what you learned is itself a contribution: the Contributing to Neon Law Navigator workshop lays out every way to give back, and once your instance is live, walk your lawyer through Using Neon Law Navigator.

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