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One-shot Portainer deploy: public tracker + relay
No Dockerfile, no custom image, no registry. Portainer runs python:3.12-slim, downloads this repo tarball, installs tracker/relay, and starts both services.
1. One-time host setup
DNS points to the Docker host, e.g. cloud.neuron.d-popov.com.
Firewall exposes only 80, 443, and admin SSH.
Nginx Proxy Manager and this stack share a Docker network, e.g. npm_proxy.
If needed:
docker network create npm_proxy
docker network connect npm_proxy <nginx-proxy-manager-container>
2. Portainer stack
Portainer → Stacks → Add stack → Repository.
Stack file:
deploy/portainer/meshnet-tracker-nobuild-stack.yml
Deploy only after the current branch has been pushed. The stack passes the
current tracker billing flags (--billing-db, and optional treasury flags), so
an older remote master.tar.gz will crash on startup with unrecognized
arguments.
Variables:
SOURCE_TARBALL_URL=https://git.d-popov.com/<owner>/<repo>/archive/master.tar.gz
PUBLIC_TRACKER_URL=https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com
PUBLIC_PROXY_NETWORK=npm_proxy
CLUSTER_PEERS=https://ai.neuron.d-popov.com
PUBLIC_RELAY_URL=wss://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/ws
HEARTBEAT_TIMEOUT=30
ENABLE_BILLING_DB=1
For first cloud-only test, use CLUSTER_PEERS=. Click Deploy the stack.
(ai.neuron.d-popov.com is publicly reachable, so two-tracker sync works over the
internet — but add it only after the cloud-only friends test proves out; two-peer
Raft adds moving parts without fault tolerance.)
ENABLE_BILLING_DB=1 makes billing public behavior active: /v1/chat/completions
requires Authorization: Bearer <sk-mesh-...> — a real API key created through
an account (register on /dashboard, then "+ new key"); arbitrary bearer
strings are rejected with 401. Calls return 402 once the key's balance is
exhausted. Set ENABLE_BILLING_DB=0 if existing unauthenticated clients must
keep working during the first redeploy.
Credit variables (US-039/US-040):
STARTING_CREDIT=1 # one-time Caller Credit (USDT) on an account's first key
DEVNET_TOPUP=1 # dashboard "+$N (devnet)" faucet button; 0 disables
Both default to 1 (devnet-friendly alpha). On any deployment holding a mainnet treasury set both to 0 — the faucet mints client balance for free.
Optional Solana treasury settlement variables:
SOLANA_RPC_URL=https://api.devnet.solana.com
USDT_MINT=<mock-usdt-mint-from-scripts/devnet_setup.py>
MESHNET_TREASURY_KEYPAIR_B64=<base64 of solana keypair JSON>
SETTLE_PERIOD=86400
PAYOUT_THRESHOLD=5
PAYOUT_DUST_FLOOR=0.01
Set all three treasury identity values together (SOLANA_RPC_URL, USDT_MINT,
MESHNET_TREASURY_KEYPAIR_B64) or leave all three empty. The stack writes the
decoded keypair into the tracker data volume at startup and passes it to
meshnet-tracker; do not put this key on relay-only hosts or non-settlement
trackers.
Expected containers:
meshnet-tracker internal 8081
meshnet-relay internal 8765
3. Nginx Proxy Manager
One Proxy Host for cloud.neuron.d-popov.com:
Forward Hostname/IP: meshnet-tracker
Forward Port: 8081
Websockets Support: ON
SSL: Let's Encrypt + Force SSL
Custom locations on the same proxy host:
/ws -> http://meshnet-relay:8765
/rpc -> http://meshnet-relay:8765
Leave sub-folder forwarding empty.
Required: NPM custom locations do NOT inherit the proxy host's "Websockets
Support" toggle. Paste this into the Advanced box of each custom location
(/ws and /rpc), or every WebSocket handshake to the relay dies at nginx:
proxy_http_version 1.1;
proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
proxy_set_header Connection $http_connection;
proxy_read_timeout 3600s;
proxy_send_timeout 3600s;
4. Smoke test
curl -s https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/v1/health
curl -s https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/v1/network/map | python3 -m json.tool
curl -s https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/v1/raft/status | python3 -m json.tool
Plain curl to /ws or /rpc/test-peer may show 426 Upgrade Required; OK. It must not show nginx 502.
Dashboard:
curl -s https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/dashboard | head
Then open:
https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/dashboard
The dashboard is served by the tracker through the same proxy host; no extra NPM location is required.
If you previously deployed the build-image variant before /var/lib/meshnet
was created as the meshnet user, the named volume may already be root-owned.
Recreate that volume or chown it once before retrying the fixed image.
5. Start a node
meshnet-node is the worker/miner process. It will ask for a model and load a
model shard. Do not use it to test the tracker dashboard.
meshnet-node start --tracker https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com --model Qwen/Qwen2.5-0.5B-Instruct
Expected:
Relay advertised by tracker — using outbound tunnel wss://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/ws
Relay connected — wss://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/rpc/<peer_id>
6. Two tracker sync
Cloud stack:
PUBLIC_TRACKER_URL=https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com
CLUSTER_PEERS=https://ai.neuron.d-popov.com
PUBLIC_RELAY_URL=wss://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com/ws
Local tracker:
meshnet-tracker start --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8081 \
--self-url https://ai.neuron.d-popov.com \
--cluster-peers https://cloud.neuron.d-popov.com \
--relay-url wss://ai.neuron.d-popov.com/ws
Two Raft peers are enough for sync testing; real HA needs three trackers.