# Deployment entry point

The deployment script and Gitea workflow live in this directory and `.gitea/workflows/`. The current deployment, health/readiness, rollback, and secret-handling guidance is in the repository [infrastructure guide](../docs/infrastructure/README.md), especially [deployment](../docs/infrastructure/deployment.md) and [disaster recovery](../docs/infrastructure/disaster-recovery.md).

Keep the server `.env` outside the repository. Do not run production deployment, restore, migration, or credential rotation as part of local documentation work.

MariaDB backup connection parsing uses `scripts/parse-backup-connection.py` (Python 3, already required by deployment preflight). Keys are case-insensitive and support the documented host/user/password/database aliases. Single/double-quoted values may contain semicolons and doubled quote characters. The dump contract requires one TCP host, a database and user, with port 1-65535 (default 3306); an empty password is retained. Duplicate aliases, control characters, host lists/socket paths and database path separators are rejected before dumping. This deliberately bounded parser is not the full MySqlConnector configuration engine. Additional connection options do not change existing dump-client TLS behavior; that qualification remains separate.

Run `python scripts/test-deploy-backup.py` for the offline synthetic dump-boundary regression. It extracts only the backup function and never executes the deployment entry point, contacts a database or reads the production environment.