qlockify-core-deployment/README.md

# Qlockify Deployment

Main deployment and operations repository for Qlockify.

This repo is the entrypoint for running the full product stack in production.

## Related Repositories

- Deployment repository declared by `origin`: `https://git.amiirkhl.ir/Qlockify/qlockify-core-deployment.git`
- Backend repository declared by its `origin`: `https://git.amiirkhl.ir/Qlockify/qlockify-backend-deployment.git`
- Frontend repository declared by its `origin`: `https://git.amiirkhl.ir/Qlockify/qlockify-frontend-deployment.git`

Use this repo for:

- Docker Compose orchestration
- Nginx
- SSL certificate mounting
- domain routing
- environment layout
- production service startup

Use the backend and frontend repos for application-level implementation details.

## What This Repo Contains

- `docker-compose.yml`
- Nginx config
- Postgres support files
- Dockerfiles for production images
- deployment environment samples
- container networking and volume wiring

## Architecture

Main deployed services:

- `nginx`
- `frontend`
- `backend`
- `celery`
- `celery-beat`
- `redis`
- `db`

Traffic pattern:

- `qlockify.ir` serves the frontend
- backend traffic is served from `qlockify.ir` under `/api` and `/admin`
- Nginx terminates TLS and proxies requests to the frontend and backend containers

## Expected Repository Layout

Docker builds read from nested application directories inside this repository:

- `./backend/qlockify-backend-deployment`
- `./frontend/qlockify-frontend-deployment`

Expected layout:

```text
qlockify-deployment/
  backend/
    Dockerfile
    .env.sample
    qlockify-backend-deployment/
  frontend/
    Dockerfile
    .env.sample
    qlockify-frontend-deployment/
  nginx/
  postgres/
  docker-compose.yml
```

## Deployment Flow

### 1. Place application source

Put the app repos into:

- `./backend/qlockify-backend-deployment`
- `./frontend/qlockify-frontend-deployment`

### 2. Configure env files

Create and fill:

- `./.env`
- `./backend/qlockify-backend-deployment/.env`
- `./frontend/qlockify-frontend-deployment/.env`

### 3. Build and run

```powershell
docker compose up -d --build
```

The backend container runs:

- database migrations
- `collectstatic`
- Gunicorn startup

## Domain and Routing

Configured domains:

- `qlockify.ir`
- `www.qlockify.ir`

Behavior:

- `www.qlockify.ir` redirects to `qlockify.ir`
- `http` redirects to `https`
- frontend is served from `qlockify.ir`
- backend traffic is proxied from `qlockify.ir/api` and `qlockify.ir/admin`

Before production startup:

1. Point DNS records for `qlockify.ir` and `www.qlockify.ir` to the server.
2. Make sure `80` and `443` are open on the server firewall.
3. Make sure the TLS certificate covers all required names.

## SSL Certificates

Place certificate files here:

```text
./nginx/certs/fullchain.pem
./nginx/certs/privkey.pem
```

The repository intentionally keeps only:

- `./nginx/certs/.gitkeep`

Real certificate files are ignored by git.

## Required Backend Environment

Set these in:

```text
./backend/qlockify-backend-deployment/.env
```

Core production values:

- `DJANGO_ALLOWED_HOSTS=qlockify.ir,www.qlockify.ir`
- `CORS_ALLOWED_ORIGINS=https://qlockify.ir,https://www.qlockify.ir`
- `CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGINS=https://qlockify.ir,https://www.qlockify.ir`
- `BASE_URL=https://qlockify.ir`
- `POSTGRES_HOST=db`
- `REDIS_HOST=redis`
- `REDIS_URL=redis://redis:6379/0`
- `CELERY_BROKER_URL=redis://redis:6379/0`
- `CELERY_RESULT_BACKEND=redis://redis:6379/1`

Google OAuth values:

- `GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=...`
- `GOOGLE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=...`
- `GOOGLE_OAUTH_REDIRECT_URI=https://qlockify.ir/api/users/oauth/google/callback/`
- `GOOGLE_OAUTH_FRONTEND_CALLBACK_URL=https://qlockify.ir/auth/google/callback`

## Required Frontend Environment

Set this in:

```text
./frontend/qlockify-frontend-deployment/.env
```

```text
VITE_API_BASE_URL=/api
```

## Background Workers

This stack includes:

- `celery` for async jobs
- `celery-beat` for scheduled jobs

If background scheduling stops working, inspect:

```powershell
docker compose logs -f celery
docker compose logs -f celery-beat
```

## Notifications and SSE

Notifications use Server-Sent Events at `/api/notifications/stream/`.

Current behavior:

- Nginx disables buffering for the SSE endpoint
- Gunicorn is tuned to tolerate connected streams for current traffic
- if concurrency grows materially, move SSE to async workers or a dedicated ASGI service

## Useful Operations

Build/rebuild:

```powershell
docker compose up -d --build
```

Restart a subset:

```powershell
docker compose up -d --build nginx backend frontend
```

Inspect running services:

```powershell
docker compose ps
```

Follow logs:

```powershell
docker compose logs -f nginx
docker compose logs -f backend
docker compose logs -f celery
docker compose logs -f celery-beat
```

Stop everything:

```powershell
docker compose down
```

## CI/CD with Gitea Actions

This repository now ships with a Gitea Actions deployment workflow in:

- `.gitea/workflows/deploy.yml`

The backend and frontend repositories each ship with their own workflow files:

- backend: `.gitea/workflows/backend.yml`
- frontend: `.gitea/workflows/frontend.yml`

Deployment behavior:

- backend repo push to `main`: runs backend CI, then updates the backend checkout on the server and rebuilds `backend`, `celery`, and `celery-beat`
- frontend repo push to `main`: runs frontend lint/build, then updates the frontend checkout on the server and rebuilds `frontend`
- deployment repo push to `main`: validates deployment files, then updates the deployment checkout on the server and rebuilds `nginx` plus the app services

The remote deploy entrypoint is:

- `./scripts/deploy.sh`

### One-Time Server Bootstrap

Before Actions can deploy automatically, make sure the server is prepared once.

1. Clone all three repositories on the server into the expected layout:

```text
~/qlockify-deployment
~/qlockify-deployment/backend/qlockify-backend-deployment
~/qlockify-deployment/frontend/qlockify-frontend-deployment
```

2. Make sure the server can `git fetch` all three repositories non-interactively.

Recommended approach:

- add a deploy SSH key on the server
- add the public key to Gitea as a deploy key or a machine-user SSH key
- switch the server-side git remotes to SSH URLs

3. Pull the latest deployment repo once so the server has `scripts/deploy.sh`.

4. Make the deploy script executable:

```bash
chmod +x ~/qlockify-deployment/scripts/deploy.sh
```

5. Make sure the deploy user can run Docker Compose on the server.

### Gitea Runner Setup

Gitea Actions requires a trusted runner. Gitea's official docs describe the runner and label model here:

- Actions overview: `https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/overview`
- Act Runner: `https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/act-runner`

Recommended label setup for this project:

```text
qlockify-python:docker://python:3.14-bookworm
qlockify-node:docker://node:22-bookworm
qlockify-deploy:docker://ubuntu:24.04
```

Example non-interactive runner registration:

```bash
./act_runner register \
  --no-interactive \
  --instance https://git.amiirkhl.ir \
  --token <runner_registration_token> \
  --name qlockify-runner \
  --labels "qlockify-python:docker://python:3.14-bookworm,qlockify-node:docker://node:22-bookworm,qlockify-deploy:docker://ubuntu:24.04"
```

Then start the runner daemon:

```bash
./act_runner daemon
```

### Gitea Secrets

Create these Actions secrets either at the `Qlockify` organization level or per repository.

- `SSH_PRIVATE_KEY`
  - private key used by the workflow to SSH into the deployment server
- `SSH_KNOWN_HOSTS`
  - output of:

```bash
ssh-keyscan -H <your-server-hostname-or-ip>
```

Do not create `GITEA_TOKEN` manually. Gitea provides a built-in job token and exposes it as `${{ secrets.GITEA_TOKEN }}`. See:

- `https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/token-permissions`

### Gitea Variables

Create these Actions variables in the Gitea UI:

- `DEPLOY_HOST`
- `DEPLOY_PORT`
- `DEPLOY_USER`
- `DEPLOY_PATH`
- `DEPLOY_BRANCH`
- `BACKEND_BRANCH`
- `FRONTEND_BRANCH`

Suggested values for your current server layout:

```text
DEPLOY_HOST=h9arjloaye
DEPLOY_PORT=22
DEPLOY_USER=ubuntu
DEPLOY_PATH=/home/ubuntu/qlockify-deployment
DEPLOY_BRANCH=main
BACKEND_BRANCH=main
FRONTEND_BRANCH=main
```

Gitea variables are available in workflows through `${{ vars.NAME }}`. Gitea documents that here:

- `https://docs.gitea.com/usage/actions/actions-variables`

### Recommended UI Setup

If all three repositories live under the same `Qlockify` organization, the cleanest setup is:

1. Add one organization-level runner to `Qlockify`
2. Add organization-level variables for the shared deploy target
3. Add organization-level secrets for the SSH key and known hosts

This keeps the three repositories consistent and avoids copying the same values three times.

### First Deploy Check

After creating the runner, variables, and secrets:

1. push the deployment repository first
2. confirm the deployment workflow succeeds
3. then push backend or frontend changes and confirm their repo-specific workflows deploy only the affected services

If a workflow fails on the server step, first check:

- runner logs
- repository Actions logs
- `docker compose logs -f backend`
- `docker compose logs -f frontend`
- `docker compose logs -f celery`
- `docker compose logs -f celery-beat`

## Scope Boundary

This repo should document:

- infrastructure
- runtime topology
- domains
- Nginx
- Docker Compose
- SSL
- operational startup and troubleshooting

It should not duplicate the application-specific implementation details already documented in the backend and frontend repositories.