Operations

This section documents the deployed Light Portal runtime: how the supported Docker Compose distributions are assembled, how services receive configuration and secrets, how product releases are upgraded and rolled back, and how operators can diagnose startup and readiness failures.

Architecture and design pages explain why the platform is structured this way. The operations pages describe the current executable contract. The Compose file in each deployment repository remains the source of truth when a released version differs from this documentation.

Read Product Upgrade and Rollback for version-specific instances, configuration snapshots, deployment pipelines, and bounded release retention. The companion Product Upgrade Runtime Contract records implementation limits and proposed code follow-ups.

Start with Docker Compose Deployments to choose an environment and understand the configuration boundaries shared by all four distributions.