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# Deployment log — CTAO portal demo on strapi-experimental.cyfronet
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Living document: what was done, what broke, what is left. Update it as work
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proceeds so any agent (or human) can resume without the chat history.
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Started 2026-07-28.
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## Goal
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Run the git-based CMS demo (Gitea + Sveltia + Astro static build) on the
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Cyfronet test machine so the SUSS-PORT team can click through it. Shape must
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be production-viable, not throwaway. Machine footprint: one directory
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(`~/ctao-portal-demo/`) + 4 unit files, fully removable (README "Uninstall").
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## Ground rules (from the user, non-negotiable)
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- **Write every command out in chat, marked read-only / write, BEFORE running
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it** — the user reviews on a phone and cannot see truncated tool calls.
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- Non-invasive verification first, debugging second: confirm each precondition
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instead of fixing after the fact.
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- Never read secrets (`~/.ssh/*`, tokens). Mask token URLs in any output
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(`sed 's|://[^@]*@|://***@|g'`). Secrets stay in 0600 files on the machine.
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- No sudo, nothing outside `$HOME` on the machine, no traces for the admin.
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- Temp/working files under `.tmp/<date>-<topic>/` in the repo, never `/tmp`.
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- Commit messages: **no "Co-Authored-By: Claude"**, no session links.
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## Architecture (decided, see also README.md in this dir)
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```
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editor → Sveltia (/admin, static) → commit → Gitea :3000 (container, SQLite)
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│ polled every 10 s
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build.sh (systemd user timer)
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└─ podman run node+git, --network=container:ctao-demo-gitea
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npm ci (only if lockfile changed) → astro build
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→ releases/<sha>/ → atomic symlink flip
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│
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nginx :8080 serves releases/current
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│ (TODO) ingress vhost → team access
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```
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## Machine facts (verified 2026-07-28, read-only)
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- Rocky Linux 9.7, host `outline.openstacklocal`, IP 192.168.10.15, 2 vCPU,
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3.6 GB RAM, no swap. User `strapi`, no sudo, `Linger=yes`, user systemd running.
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- Podman 5.6.0 rootless. Host has node 24.17, npm, curl, jq, rsync — **no git**,
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**no nginx** (hence the build container / nginx container).
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- Neighbours: pod-strapi (`:1337`), Outline (`:9091`), code-server (`127.0.0.1:41787`).
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- **VPN does NOT route to machine ports** (`curl 192.168.10.15:1337` times out);
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only the admin-managed HTTPS ingress reaches the machine
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(`https://strapi.isl-dev.grid.cyfronet.pl` → 204). Hence ports 3000/8080 are
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reachable for us only via `ssh -L`, and the team needs vhosts from Hubert.
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## DONE
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### 1. Local: files authored + reviewed + tested (before touching the machine)
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- Wrote quadlets, `build.sh`, systemd service/timer, `nginx.conf`,
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`Containerfile.build`, `README.md` (runbook incl. uninstall).
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- **Opus security review** — 8 findings, every one verified personally:
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BLOCKER `--network=host` (build code could reach host loopback: code-server
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= RCE, Strapi) → replaced; `OnUnitActiveSec` is start-relative, not
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end-relative (agent corrected me) → `OnUnitInactiveSec`; missing `mkdir` for
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`~/.config/*`; nginx-before-first-build race; prune `pipefail` landmine;
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noisy unit failure when Gitea is down; CORS `SCHEME` note; RAM headroom.
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All fixed. No hallucinated findings.
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- **Local end-to-end test** against the local Gitea (`:3010`), sandbox
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`.tmp/2026-07-28-deploy-test/`: cold build 23 s · no-op poll 45 ms ·
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incremental rebuild 4 s · prune ✓ · Gitea-down grace ✓ · anonymous clone
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(no token in `.git/config`) ✓.
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- Commits (local Gitea repo `ctao/portal`): `ed7a9c0`, `80d886c`.
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### 2. Machine: install steps 1–7 of README
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- Created `~/ctao-portal-demo/{gitea-data,gitea-config,releases,state,bin,config}`
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and `~/.config/{containers/systemd,systemd/user}`.
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- Copied unit files, `build.sh`, `nginx.conf`, `Containerfile.build`.
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- Pulled + **pinned by digest**: gitea 1.27-rootless, nginx stable-alpine,
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node:24-alpine; built `localhost/ctao-portal-build:1`.
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- Gitea running (`:3000`, API version 1.27.1), admin `ctao` created with
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`--random-password` → `~/ctao-portal-demo/state/initial-admin.txt` (0600),
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push token → `state/push-token.txt` (0600). **Never printed in chat.**
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- Content pushed via git bundle (78 MB, one-off bootstrap): repo `ctao/portal`
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at `80d886c`, public, anonymously clonable. Bundle deleted afterwards.
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- **First build on the machine: 44 s** (`npm ci` ~35 s + astro build 6.5 s),
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225 pages. Incremental rebuilds should be ~10 s (measure to confirm).
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- nginx container running, `http://localhost:8080/` → **200, `<title>CTAO
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Science Portal</title>`**.
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- Poll timer enabled (`ctao-portal-build.timer`), ticking every ~10 s, journal
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clean.
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### 3. Problems hit on the machine (and the fixes)
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1. **Rootless bridge network impossible**: `netavark: modprobe ip_tables:
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Operation not permitted` → quadlet restart loop. Root cause: kernel module
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not loaded, rootless cannot modprobe, no sudo. **Fix:** dropped
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`ctao-demo.network`; build joins Gitea's netns
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(`--network=container:ctao-demo-gitea`), so it reaches Gitea on
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`localhost:3000` while the host loopback stays unreachable (pasta).
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Same security property as the bridge, zero privileges. Lesson written to
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`.skills/podman-quadlet/SKILL.md`.
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2. **Push rejected**: admin was created with `--must-change-password` →
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`remote: Update your password`. **Fix:** `gitea admin user
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must-change-password --unset ctao`.
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3. **My rc-chain bug**: `... | sed` made `$?` the sed's status, so a failed
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push printed "push-ok" and the bundle was deleted prematurely → had to
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re-upload 78 MB. **Fix:** capture output in a var, check rc of the real
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command. (Also why the upload "took so long" — it ran twice.)
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4. **Push-created repo was private** despite `DEFAULT_PRIVATE=public` —
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push-to-create has its own key. **Fix:** PATCH via API to public +
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`GITEA__repository__DEFAULT_PUSH_CREATE_PRIVATE=false` in the quadlet.
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5. **`npm ci` failed: `ETXTBSY` spawning `esbuild`** (postinstall race in a
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rootless container, ~5 min wasted). **Fix:** `npm ci --ignore-scripts`
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(also removes the malicious-postinstall vector) + persistent npm cache
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volume `~/ctao-portal-demo/npm-cache`. Validated locally, then on machine.
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### 4. Left on the machine (known, not cleaned — user asked to be told, not tidied)
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- Orphan systemd entry `ctao-demo-network.service` (not-found/active-exited),
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ghost of the removed network quadlet. Harmless; clears with
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`systemctl --user stop ctao-demo-network.service`.
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- `/tmp/storage-run-1003/` (~136 KB) — podman runroot from ssh calls without
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`XDG_RUNTIME_DIR`. Disappears on reboot. (`storage-run-1001` is NOT ours.)
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- Red journal entries from the netavark restart loop (history, not a live fault).
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- Disk: 11 G → 9.6 G free (images ~590 MB + repo/content). RAM available ~1.3 G.
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### 5. Pipeline proven end-to-end on the machine (2026-07-28)
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- Pushed `46ec5e2` to the machine's Gitea (incremental bundle, 6 KB — this is
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what ongoing syncs cost, vs the 78 MB one-off bootstrap).
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- **The poller published it automatically in 26 s end-to-end** (push →
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visible), of which the build itself was 21 s. That is the demo's publish
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latency: **~30 s worst case** on 2 vCPU (vs 44 s for the very first build
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which included `npm ci`). Cold-cache builds only happen when the lockfile
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changes.
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- Verified after publish: `/` 200, `/admin/` 200 (Sveltia), an article page
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200; neighbours untouched (Strapi 204, Outline 200); RAM available 1.2 G,
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disk free 9.0 G.
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### 6. Sveltia wired to the machine + editor cycle proven (2026-07-28)
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- **OAuth app created via API, no UI clicking**: temp `write:user` token from
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`gitea admin user generate-access-token` (CLI in container) → POST
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`/user/applications/oauth2` → temp token deleted (needed basic auth from
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`initial-admin.txt`; token-auth DELETE returns 401). App: "Sveltia CMS
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(demo)", `client_id cf1c44ac-ebe6-4a97-bf2f-f7f26ef1126c`, PKCE
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(`confidential_client=false`), redirect_uris: `http://localhost:18080/admin/`
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and `http://localhost:8080/admin/`.
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- **Found & fixed**: `public/admin/config.yml` still pointed at the MAC's Gitea
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(`localhost:3010` + old app_id) — CMS login on the machine could never work.
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Switched to `localhost:3000` + machine app_id (`bc02012`). localhost:3000 is
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valid both on the machine and through the tunnel (same-port trick).
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- **Editor cycle simulated exactly like Sveltia does it** (Gitea contents API):
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create article via API → **live on the portal in 12 s**; delete via API →
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**gone in 21 s**. Repo left clean (`29385a5`). Earlier full-push rebuild:
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16 s build. Publish latency ≈ **10–30 s** depending on poll-tick alignment.
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- Tunnel run from the Mac with keepalive (`-o ServerAliveInterval=30`), portal
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mapped to **18080** locally (user request: non-default port), Gitea kept at
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**3000** (must match ROOT_URL). First tunnel died after idle — keepalive fixed.
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- Push token scope confirmed minimal (`write:repository` only) — cannot manage
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users/apps; file format is `<name>:<40-hex>` (grep the hex out).
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## TODO (next agent starts here)
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1. ~~Commit the `--ignore-scripts` fix and mirror to the machine~~ — DONE
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(`46ec5e2`, and it doubled as the live pipeline test above).
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2. ~~Measure incremental publish latency on the machine~~ — DONE: **26 s
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end-to-end**, build 21 s.
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3. ~~Verify the loop through `ssh -L`~~ — mostly DONE: tunnel
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`-L 18080:localhost:8080 -L 3000:localhost:3000` (with ServerAlive
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keepalive) verified with real content. **Remaining: the user clicks
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"Sign in with Gitea" at `http://localhost:18080/admin/`** and edits an
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article in the browser — the only step that needs a human + browser
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(PKCE login). Credentials: `initial-admin.txt` on the machine.
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4. ~~Sveltia OAuth app~~ — DONE via API (see §6). Config committed and
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auto-published. Only the browser login test remains (see 3).
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5. **Message to Hubert** (only after we have seen it working):
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- two ingress vhosts → `192.168.10.15:8080` (portal) and `:3000` (gitea),
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same mechanism as `strapi.isl-dev…:1337`;
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- are vhosts public-internet or VPN-scopable? (Gitea preferably VPN-only);
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- does Cyfronet offer static-file hosting on the ingress itself? If yes we
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drop our nginx container and just rsync builds there.
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6. **After vhosts arrive**: replace both `TODO(vhost)` in
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`ctao-demo-gitea.container` (ROOT_URL, CORS origin + `GITEA__cors__SCHEME=https`),
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`daemon-reload` + restart, update Sveltia config, re-test login.
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7. **Backup**: nightly `tar` of `~/ctao-portal-demo/gitea-data` (the only
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stateful thing; everything else is rebuildable). Not yet written.
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8. **Decided but not implemented — split into two repos** (`portal` = code,
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`portal-content` = markdown + uploads). Rationale: editors get write access
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ONLY to content, so repo-push cannot alter `package.json`/templates that the
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build executes; also keeps code history clean. Cost: `build.sh` clones two
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repos and overlays content (~10 lines), polls two SHAs. Do this for the
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production version, not mid-demo.
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9. Demo choreography: the test article is `draft: true`; the user creates one
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live during the demo. With the poller running, a Sveltia save publishes
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automatically — no manual rebuild needed (unlike the Mac preview setup).
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## Command cheat-sheet (machine)
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```
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export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/$(id -u) # needed for systemctl --user over ssh
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systemctl --user status ctao-demo-gitea ctao-demo-web ctao-portal-build.timer
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journalctl --user -u ctao-portal-build -n 20 --no-pager # build times land here
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~/ctao-portal-demo/bin/build.sh # manual build
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readlink ~/ctao-portal-demo/releases/current # which sha is live
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curl -s -o /dev/null -w '%{http_code}' http://localhost:8080/
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```
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