Deploy and manage enter.pollinations.ai text/image services on EC2 and Cloudflare Workers. Requires: SSH keys, sops, wrangler.
Installation
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Usage
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name: enter-services description: "Deploy and manage enter.pollinations.ai text/image services on EC2 and Cloudflare Workers. Requires: SSH keys, sops, wrangler."
Requirements
Before using this skill, ensure you have:
- SSH keys: Configured via GitHub secrets (see workflow)
- sops:
brew install sops(for decrypting secrets) - Wrangler:
npm install -g wrangler - Node.js:
brew install node
Must run from the pollinations repo root.
Architecture Overview
| Environment | Gateway (Cloudflare Worker) | Text/Image Services (EC2) |
|---|---|---|
| Production | enter.pollinations.ai | 3.80.56.235 (ports 16384/16385) |
| Staging | staging.enter.pollinations.ai | 44.222.254.250 (ports 16384/16385) |
SSH Configuration
Add to ~/.ssh/config:
# Production instance
Host enter-services
HostName 3.80.56.235
User ubuntu
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/enter-services-shared-key
# Staging instance
Host enter-services-staging
HostName 44.222.254.250
User ubuntu
IdentityFile ~/.ssh/enter-services-staging-key
Quick Commands
Production
# Service status
ssh enter-services "sudo systemctl status text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
# View logs (real-time)
ssh enter-services "sudo journalctl -u text-pollinations.service -f"
ssh enter-services "sudo journalctl -u image-pollinations.service -f"
# Restart services
ssh enter-services "sudo systemctl restart text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
# Recent errors
ssh enter-services "sudo journalctl -u text-pollinations.service -p err -n 20"
Staging
# Service status
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo systemctl status text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
# View logs
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo journalctl -u text-pollinations.service -f"
# Restart
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo systemctl restart text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
Deploy to Production
The GitHub workflow handles production deployments automatically on push to production branch.
Manual deployment:
# 1. SSH into production
ssh enter-services
# 2. Pull and restart
cd /home/ubuntu/pollinations
git pull origin production
cd text.pollinations.ai && npm install
cd ../image.pollinations.ai && npm install
sudo systemctl restart text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service
Deploy to Staging
Full Setup (New Instance)
# 1. SSH into the new instance
ssh enter-services-staging
# 2. Install build tools (if needed)
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
# 3. Clone repo
git clone https://github.com/pollinations/pollinations.git
cd pollinations
# 4. Run setup script
bash enter.pollinations.ai/scripts/setup-services.sh /home/ubuntu/pollinations
# 5. From your LOCAL machine - decrypt and copy env files
cd /path/to/pollinations
sops --output-type dotenv -d text.pollinations.ai/secrets/env.json > /tmp/text.env
sops --output-type dotenv -d image.pollinations.ai/secrets/env.json > /tmp/image.env
scp /tmp/text.env enter-services-staging:/home/ubuntu/pollinations/text.pollinations.ai/.env
scp /tmp/image.env enter-services-staging:/home/ubuntu/pollinations/image.pollinations.ai/.env
rm /tmp/text.env /tmp/image.env
# 6. Restart services
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo systemctl restart text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
Update Staging
ssh enter-services-staging "cd /home/ubuntu/pollinations && git pull && cd text.pollinations.ai && npm install && cd ../image.pollinations.ai && npm install && sudo systemctl restart text-pollinations.service image-pollinations.service"
Deploy Cloudflare Worker (enter.pollinations.ai)
cd enter.pollinations.ai
# Production
npm run deploy:production
# Staging
npm run deploy:staging
Service Locations (on EC2)
- Service definitions:
/etc/systemd/system/ - Text service:
/home/ubuntu/pollinations/text.pollinations.ai/ - Image service:
/home/ubuntu/pollinations/image.pollinations.ai/
Wrangler Configuration
The wrangler.toml contains environment configs:
| Environment | Route | Service URLs |
|---|---|---|
production | enter.pollinations.ai | Production EC2 |
staging | staging.enter.pollinations.ai | Staging EC2 |
local | localhost:3000 | Local dev |
Troubleshooting
Services won't start
# Check logs
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo journalctl -u text-pollinations.service -n 50"
# Check if .env exists
ssh enter-services-staging "ls -la /home/ubuntu/pollinations/text.pollinations.ai/.env"
# Check node/npm
ssh enter-services-staging "node -v && npm -v"
Missing dependencies
ssh enter-services-staging "cd /home/ubuntu/pollinations/text.pollinations.ai && npm install"
Need build tools
ssh enter-services-staging "sudo apt-get install -y build-essential"
Notes
- Production deploys on push to
productionbranch - Staging deploys on push to
stagingbranch - Always test on staging before merging to production
- The Cloudflare Worker (enter.pollinations.ai) routes to EC2 services
- Text service: port 16385, Image service: port 16384
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