deployment

Deployment

Kognitika uses three GitHub Actions workflows for continuous integration, production deployment, and Android builds. Direct edits to production server files are forbidden outside documented emergency hotfixes.

CI workflow

File: .github/workflows/ci.yml

Runs on every push to main, master, or codex/** branches, and on every pull request.

Steps:

1. Checkout the repository.
2. Set up pnpm 10.22.0 and Node.js 22.
3. Start a PostgreSQL 15 service container.
4. Install dependencies with pnpm install --frozen-lockfile.
5. Run cargo test for the Rust WASM core at crates/kognitika-core/.
6. Run TypeScript lint with pnpm lint.
7. Run Vitest unit tests with pnpm test.
8. Run pnpm validate (same as test).
9. Build the frontend with pnpm build.
10. Check bundle size with pnpm check:bundle.
11. Install Playwright browsers and run E2E tests with pnpm test:e2e.

Deploy workflow

File: .github/workflows/deploy.yml

Runs on every push to main (or manually via workflow_dispatch).

The workflow has two jobs:

Verify -- runs the same checks as the CI workflow (lint, test, build, Rust tests).

Deploy -- runs after verify passes, in the production environment:

1. Prepares an SSH connection to the deploy host using secrets (KOGNITIKA_DEPLOY_HOST, KOGNITIKA_DEPLOY_PORT, KOGNITIKA_DEPLOY_SSH_KEY).
2. On the server, the deploy script:
   • Creates a timestamped backup of the current dist/ directory.
   • Pulls the latest main branch with git pull --ff-only.
   • Verifies the checked-out commit matches the expected SHA.
   • Restores cached dist/assets to preserve immutable asset URLs.
   • Runs pnpm install --frozen-lockfile.
   • Configures nginx for kognitika.ru with TLS via certbot.
   • Inserts or updates the production .env file with the correct APP_URL, FRONTEND_URL, and CORS_ORIGIN values.
   • Runs Prisma migrations with pnpm exec prisma migrate deploy.
   • Builds the frontend with BUILD_HASH=<sha> pnpm build.
   • Exports and deploys the mobile web version.
   • Restarts the kognitika systemd service.
   • Polls /api/health up to 30 times (2-second intervals) until the new build responds.
   • Verifies the health check response contains the expected buildId.

Android build workflow

File: .github/workflows/android.yml

Runs on pushes to main affecting Capacitor-related paths, on pull requests, and manually with optional release flag.

Jobs:

Debug -- builds an unsigned debug APK:

1. Checks out the repository.
2. Sets up pnpm, Node.js 22, and Java 21 (Temurin).
3. Installs dependencies, builds the frontend, synchronizes Capacitor.
4. Runs Android unit tests.
5. Assembles the debug APK.
6. Uploads the APK as a build artifact (retained for 14 days).

GitHub Release -- runs after debug on push to main:

1. Downloads the debug APK artifact.
2. Deletes the existing android-latest release and tag.
3. Creates a new android-latest release with the APK attached.

Release -- runs only when workflow_dispatch is triggered with release=true:

1. Decodes the Android keystore from a base64 secret.
2. Signs and assembles a release App Bundle (AAB).
3. Uploads the AAB as a build artifact (retained for 30 days) for Play Console upload.

Canonical deploy flow

Normal production changes follow this sequence:

local changes -> git commit -> git push -> GitHub PR -> merge to main -> GitHub Actions deploy

The server updates itself through the repository-first flow. Do not edit files under /opt/kognitika/ or /opt/kognitika/dist/ directly during normal work.

Health check

curl https://kognitika.syntog.ru/api/health

Returns:

{
  "status": "ok",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-29T12:00:00.000Z",
  "buildId": "abc1234"
}

The buildId should match the short commit hash of the deployed version.

Docker

For local full-stack deployment:

docker compose up --build

• App container: port 3006
• PostgreSQL container: port 5432 (user: admin, password: adminpassword, database: cognitika)

The Dockerfile is at the project root and uses tsx to run the Express server. The docker-compose.yml defines both services and a health check for the database.