Self-hosted deployment system for Seed nodes. A single script handles first-time setup, configuration, container orchestration, backups, and automatic updates.

Quick Start

curl -fsSL https://deploy.seedhypermedia.com | sh

The bootstrap script installs Docker and Bun (if missing), downloads the deployment engine, and launches an interactive wizard to configure your node. After setup you manage everything through the seed-deploy CLI.

Architecture

deploy.sh          Minimal bootstrap — installs Docker + Bun, downloads deploy.js
  |
  v
deploy.ts          Main deployment engine (bundled to dist/deploy.js)
  |                  - Interactive wizard (first run)
  |                  - Headless deploy (subsequent runs / cron)
  |                  - Full CLI for node management
  v
docker-compose.yml Container definitions for proxy, web, and daemon

Files

| File                 | Purpose                                  |
| -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| `deploy.sh`          | One-line bootstrap installer             |
| `deploy.ts`          | Deployment engine source (TypeScript)    |
| `deploy.test.ts`     | Test suite (115 tests, 257 assertions)   |
| `dist/deploy.js`     | Committed production bundle (Bun target) |
| `docker-compose.yml` | Docker Compose service definitions       |

Modes of Operation

1. Interactive Wizard (first run)

When no config.json exists, the script launches a terminal wizard:

Public hostname — the https:// URL for the node (required)
Environment — Production / Staging / Development
Log level — Debug / Info / Warn / Error
Gateway mode — whether the node serves all known public content
Analytics — enable Plausible.io traffic dashboard
Contact email — optional, for security update notifications

The wizard also detects legacy installations (from website_deployment.sh) and offers a migration path, pre-filling values from the old config.

2. Headless Deploy (subsequent runs)

When config.json exists, the script runs without prompts:

Self-updates deploy.js from the upstream repo (cron only)
Fetches docker-compose.yml and compares SHA-256 with the stored hash
If nothing changed and all containers are healthy, skips redeployment
Otherwise: pulls images first (while old containers serve traffic),

then recreates containers from cache — minimizes downtime

Prunes unused Docker images after successful deploy

3. Reconfiguration

seed-deploy deploy --reconfigure

Re-runs the wizard with current values shown as placeholders. Press Tab to keep a value, type to change it, or press Enter to clear optional fields. Changed fields are marked with a pencil icon in the summary.

CLI Reference

seed-deploy [command] [options]

| Command          | Description                                |
| ---------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| `deploy`         | Deploy or update node (default command)    |
| `stop`           | Stop and remove all containers             |
| `start`          | Start containers without re-deploying      |
| `restart`        | Restart all containers                     |
| `status`         | Health, versions, connectivity, disk, cron |
| `config`         | Print current config (secrets redacted)    |
| `logs [service]` | Tail logs (daemon, web, or proxy)          |
| `cron [remove]`  | Install or remove auto-update cron jobs    |
| `backup [path]`  | Create portable backup of node data        |
| `restore <file>` | Restore node data from backup archive      |
| `uninstall`      | Remove all containers, data, and config    |

| Option            | Description                                     |
| ----------------- | ----------------------------------------------- |
| `--reconfigure`   | Re-run the setup wizard to change configuration |
| `-h`, `--help`    | Show help message                               |
| `-v`, `--version` | Show script version                             |

Environment Presets

A single "Environment" choice controls multiple settings:

| Environment | Tag      | Network | Use Case                       |
| ----------- | -------- | ------- | ------------------------------ |
| Production  | `latest` | Mainnet | Stable releases (recommended)  |
| Staging     | `dev`    | Mainnet | Dev builds on real network     |
| Development | `dev`    | Testnet | Dev builds on isolated network |

Configuration

Stored at <seed-dir>/config.json. User-facing fields:

| Field         | Required | Description                              |
| ------------- | -------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| `domain`      | Yes      | Public hostname including `https://`     |
| `email`       | No       | Contact email for security notifications |
| `environment` | Yes      | `prod`, `staging`, or `dev`              |
| `gateway`     | Yes      | Serve all known public content           |
| `analytics`   | Yes      | Enable Plausible.io web analytics        |

Internal fields (managed by the script): compose_url, compose_sha, compose_envs, release_channel, testnet, link_secret, last_script_run.

Docker Services

Three core containers, plus optional metrics:

| Container   | Image               | Ports            | Purpose             |
| ----------- | ------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------- |
| seed-proxy  | caddy:2             | 80, 443, 443/udp | Reverse proxy + TLS |
| seed-web    | seedhypermedia/web  | 3000             | Web frontend        |
| seed-daemon | seedhypermedia/site | 56000, 56000/udp | P2P daemon + API    |
| prometheus  | prom/prometheus     | —                | Metrics collection  |
| grafana     | grafana/grafana     | —                | Metrics dashboards  |

All containers run as the host user (SEED_UID:SEED_GID) — no root inside containers. All bind mounts use the :z flag for SELinux compatibility.

Automatic Updates

The cron system installs two jobs:

| Schedule    | Task                                           |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| 02:00 daily | Run deploy.js — pull images, update containers |
| Every 4 hrs | Prune unused Docker images older than 1 hour   |

Install with seed-deploy cron, remove with seed-deploy cron remove.

Backup & Restore

Backup creates a .tar.gz containing config.json, docker-compose.yml, and the web/, daemon/, and proxy/ data directories. Containers are stopped during backup for data consistency and restarted after.

seed-deploy backup                     # default: <seed-dir>/backups/
seed-deploy backup /tmp/my-backup.tgz  # custom path

Restore extracts a backup archive, optionally lets you edit the configuration via the wizard, restores cron jobs, and runs a full deploy.

seed-deploy restore /path/to/backup.tar.gz

Edge Cases Handled

glibc < 2.25 — deploy.sh checks glibc version before attempting

Bun install. Prints supported OS versions and exits cleanly.

SELinux — all Docker bind mounts use :z flag. Without it,

Fedora/CentOS/RHEL silently block container access to host files.

Legacy installations — detects old website_deployment.sh containers

(docker run-based). Stops and removes them before first docker compose up to avoid name conflicts.

Non-root operation — containers run as the host user. Caddy binds

ports 80/443 via CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE file capability. sudo is only used when creating directories outside the user's home.

Disk exhaustion — old Docker images are pruned both inline after

deploys and on a 4-hour cron schedule.

No-change deploys — skipped entirely when compose SHA matches and

all containers are healthy. Shows a hint for --reconfigure.

Self-update — in headless mode, the script fetches its own latest

version before deploying. Takes effect on the next run.

rsync non-fatal — the daemon's monitoring config export uses

rsync -rlt (no owner/group) and wraps failures as warnings to avoid blocking the daemon start.

Environment Variables

For testing and development:

| Variable          | Purpose                                     |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------- |
| `SEED_DIR`        | Seed directory (default: deploy.js dirname) |
| `SEED_DEPLOY_URL` | Base URL for fetching compose + deploy.js   |
| `SEED_BRANCH`     | Git branch for deploy.sh (default: main)    |

Example local testing setup:

# Terminal 1: serve files locally
cd ops && python3 -m http.server 9999

# Terminal 2: run deploy against local server
SEED_DIR=/tmp/seed-test SEED_DEPLOY_URL=http://localhost:9999 sh ops/deploy.sh

Development

cd ops
bun install          # install dependencies
bun test             # run test suite
bun run build        # bundle to dist/deploy.js

The dist/deploy.js bundle is committed to the repo. A CI workflow verifies the bundle matches the source on every push to ops/.