# Dalidou Deployment
## Purpose
Deploy AtoCore on Dalidou as the canonical runtime and machine-memory host.
## Model
- Dalidou hosts the canonical AtoCore service.
- OpenClaw on the T420 consumes AtoCore over network/Tailscale API.
- `sources/vault` and `sources/drive` are read-only inputs by convention.
- SQLite/Chroma machine state stays on Dalidou and is not treated as a sync peer.
- The app and machine-storage host can be live before the long-term content
corpus is fully populated.
## Directory layout
```text
/srv/storage/atocore/
app/ # deployed repo checkout
data/
db/
chroma/
cache/
tmp/
sources/
vault/
drive/
logs/
backups/
run/
```
## Compose workflow
The compose definition lives in:
```text
deploy/dalidou/docker-compose.yml
```
The Dalidou environment file should be copied to:
```text
deploy/dalidou/.env
```
starting from:
```text
deploy/dalidou/.env.example
```
## First-time deployment steps
1. Place the repository under `/srv/storage/atocore/app` — ideally as a
proper git clone so future updates can be pulled, not as a static
snapshot:
```bash
sudo git clone http://dalidou:3000/Antoine/ATOCore.git \
/srv/storage/atocore/app
```
2. Create the canonical directories listed above.
3. Copy `deploy/dalidou/.env.example` to `deploy/dalidou/.env`.
4. Adjust the source paths if your AtoVault/AtoDrive mirrors live elsewhere.
5. Run:
```bash
cd /srv/storage/atocore/app/deploy/dalidou
docker compose up -d --build
```
6. Validate:
```bash
curl http://127.0.0.1:8100/health
curl http://127.0.0.1:8100/sources
```
## Updating a running deployment
**Use `deploy/dalidou/deploy.sh` for every code update.** It is the
one-shot sync script that:
- fetches latest main from Gitea into `/srv/storage/atocore/app`
- (if the app dir is not a git checkout) backs it up as
`
.pre-git-` and re-clones
- rebuilds the container image
- restarts the container
- waits for `/health` to respond
- compares the reported `code_version` against the
`__version__` in the freshly-pulled source, and exits non-zero
if they don't match (deployment drift detection)
```bash
# Normal update from main
bash /srv/storage/atocore/app/deploy/dalidou/deploy.sh
# Deploy a specific branch or tag
ATOCORE_BRANCH=codex/some-feature \
bash /srv/storage/atocore/app/deploy/dalidou/deploy.sh
# Dry-run: show what would happen without touching anything
ATOCORE_DEPLOY_DRY_RUN=1 \
bash /srv/storage/atocore/app/deploy/dalidou/deploy.sh
# Deploy from a remote host (e.g. the laptop) using the Tailscale
# or LAN address instead of loopback
ATOCORE_GIT_REMOTE=http://192.168.86.50:3000/Antoine/ATOCore.git \
bash /srv/storage/atocore/app/deploy/dalidou/deploy.sh
```
The script is idempotent and safe to re-run. It never touches the
database directly — schema migrations are applied automatically at
service startup by the lifespan handler in `src/atocore/main.py`
which calls `init_db()` (which in turn runs the ALTER TABLE
statements in `_apply_migrations`).
### Troubleshooting hostname resolution
`deploy.sh` defaults `ATOCORE_GIT_REMOTE` to
`http://127.0.0.1:3000/Antoine/ATOCore.git` (loopback) because the
hostname "dalidou" doesn't reliably resolve on the host itself —
the first real Dalidou deploy hit exactly this on 2026-04-08. If
you need to override (e.g. running deploy.sh from a laptop against
the Dalidou LAN), set `ATOCORE_GIT_REMOTE` explicitly.
The same applies to `scripts/atocore_client.py`: its default
`ATOCORE_BASE_URL` is `http://dalidou:8100` for remote callers, but
when running the client on Dalidou itself (or inside the container
via `docker exec`), override to loopback:
```bash
ATOCORE_BASE_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8100 \
python scripts/atocore_client.py health
```
If you see `{"status": "unavailable", "fail_open": true}` from the
client, the first thing to check is whether the base URL resolves
from where you're running the client.
### Deployment drift detection
`/health` reports both `version` and `code_version` fields, both set
from `atocore.__version__` at import time. To check whether the
deployed code matches the repo's `main` branch:
```bash
# What's running
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8100/health | grep -o '"code_version":"[^"]*"'
# What's in the repo's main branch
grep '__version__' /srv/storage/atocore/app/src/atocore/__init__.py
```
If these differ, the deployment is stale. Run `deploy.sh` to sync.
### Schema migrations on redeploy
When updating from an older `__version__`, the first startup after
the redeploy runs the idempotent ALTER TABLE migrations in
`_apply_migrations`. For a pre-0.2.0 → 0.2.0 upgrade the migrations
add these columns to existing tables (all with safe defaults so no
data is touched):
- `memories.project TEXT DEFAULT ''`
- `memories.last_referenced_at DATETIME`
- `memories.reference_count INTEGER DEFAULT 0`
- `interactions.response TEXT DEFAULT ''`
- `interactions.memories_used TEXT DEFAULT '[]'`
- `interactions.chunks_used TEXT DEFAULT '[]'`
- `interactions.client TEXT DEFAULT ''`
- `interactions.session_id TEXT DEFAULT ''`
- `interactions.project TEXT DEFAULT ''`
Plus new indexes on the new columns. No row data is modified. The
migration is safe to run against a database that already has the
columns — the `_column_exists` check makes each ALTER a no-op in
that case.
Backup the database before any redeploy (via `POST /admin/backup`)
if you want a pre-upgrade snapshot. The migration is additive and
reversible by restoring the snapshot.
## Deferred
- backup automation
- restore/snapshot tooling
- reverse proxy / TLS exposure
- automated source ingestion job
- OpenClaw client wiring
## Current Reality Check
When this deployment is first brought up, the service may be healthy before the
real corpus has been ingested.
That means:
- AtoCore the system can already be hosted on Dalidou
- the canonical machine-data location can already be on Dalidou
- but the live knowledge/content corpus may still be empty or only partially
loaded until source ingestion is run