The remote shell runs as drinkadmin, which cannot enter /root even though sudo can operate there, so 'cd $REMOTE_DIR && sudo docker ...' failed at the cd. Pass the build context and compose file as paths instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Deploying drinktracker
./deploy/deploy.sh # typecheck, push, build on the LXC, restart, verify
./deploy/deploy.sh --yes # skip the confirmation prompt
./deploy/deploy.sh --push # also publish the image to the Gitea registry
Where things actually live
| Production LXC | 192.168.2.169 (hostname drinktracker) |
| Deploy user | drinkadmin, key ~/.ssh/drinktracker_ed25519 |
| Live compose dir | /root/drinktracker |
| Image tag | 192.168.2.140:3000/jpscott84/drinktracker:latest |
| App port | 3000 (host network), unauthenticated requests return 307 → /login |
Two traps worth knowing:
drinktracker.tenseconddelay.net is the reverse proxy (192.168.2.172), not the container. NEXTAUTH_URL points at the public name, so resolving it and SSHing there fails confusingly — the key looks rejected because it's a different machine.
The two checkouts under /home/drinkadmin/ are stale. Only /root/drinktracker is live; that's what the running container's compose labels point to.
How it works
The image is built on the LXC and tagged with the registry name that docker-compose.prod.yml already references. Compose finds it locally and never pulls, so no registry credentials are needed on either machine. --push publishes it as well, which is only useful if something else pulls that tag.
There is no CI, so git push on its own deploys nothing — it only updates the Gitea repo. The build and restart have to happen separately, which is what this script is for.
One-time setup
The script needs passwordless sudo on the LXC, because the deployment lives under /root. On the container as root:
echo 'drinkadmin ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL' > /etc/sudoers.d/drinkadmin-deploy
chmod 440 /etc/sudoers.d/drinkadmin-deploy
visudo -c
This grants less than it appears to: drinkadmin is already in the docker group, and anyone who can talk to the Docker socket can mount the host filesystem into a privileged container, so they are root-equivalent already. If you'd rather not, drop the sudoers file and run the deploy steps by hand from a root shell.
Alternative worth considering: move the deployment out of /root into a drinkadmin-owned directory and skip sudo entirely. Keep the directory basename drinktracker so the compose project name — and therefore the existing container and volume names — stay the same. .env.production must be copied across intact or Postgres will reject the app's credentials, since the volume was initialised with the current password.
Verifying by hand
ssh -i ~/.ssh/drinktracker_ed25519 drinkadmin@192.168.2.169
sudo docker compose -f /root/drinktracker/docker-compose.prod.yml ps
sudo docker logs drinktracker-app-1 --tail 50
sudo docker logs drinktracker-app-1 2>&1 | grep '\[switchboard\]' # AI routing + cost per call
Each AI call logs one [switchboard] feature=… model=… cost=… latency_ms=… line. FAILOVER warnings are expected — the gateway's :batch model variants currently fail on every request and fall back.
Rollback
git revert <bad-sha> && ./deploy/deploy.sh
Or directly on the LXC, without touching git history:
sudo git -C /root/drinktracker reset --hard <previous-sha>
cd /root/drinktracker
sudo docker build -t 192.168.2.140:3000/jpscott84/drinktracker:latest .
sudo docker compose -f docker-compose.prod.yml up -d --no-build
Note the migrate service runs prisma db push --accept-data-loss on every start, so a rollback that removes a column will drop it and its data. Take a database dump first if the schema changed.