publish-to-production

Automating production deployment for Convex and Vercel involves orchestrating backend provisioning, linking Vercel, and wiring environment variables. This workflow provisions Convex prod, writes vercel.json, validates CLI presence, and deploys the first instance automatically.

Mirroring local environment variables to Convex prod uses the `convex env set --prod` command. This idempotent step safely syncs configurations while deferring secrets to Convex, preventing accidental secret leakage during production deployment.

Running preflight checks before a Vercel and Convex production launch requires validating CLI presence and applying safe deploy protocols. These safety checks prevent misconfigurations by ensuring environment variables are correctly wired before the first deployment.

The NowStack deployment workflow handles environment variable re-syncs after key rotations by using idempotent execution. It mirrors the local environment to Convex prod and validates configurations to ensure rotated keys are safely updated across the stack.

Limitations of automating environment configuration include deferring all secret management strictly to Convex rather than storing them in Vercel. The workflow also requires validating specific CLI presence locally before executing any safe deploys or configuration writes.