A disposable stack for reviewing merged-but-undeployed changes online,
running alongside production on the same NAS.
Every value that could collide with production is changed: container
names, host port (32751), volume paths, database name, and image tag.
The Postgres data directory is the critical one — sharing production's
would mean QA writing into production's database files.
QA deliberately differs from production in three ways. DEMO_MODE=true
with no PayPal credentials, so the full cart and checkout path is
exercisable with no route to live PayPal. No SMTP configuration, so a QA
run cannot email anyone; the mailer already degrades gracefully when
unset. And restart: "no", so a NAS reboot does not quietly bring QA back
up and leave it running.
The stack must be named redefined-designs-qa in Portainer: the stack name
becomes the compose project name, and reusing production's would make
compose reconcile the two against each other and remove the production
containers.
README covers the one-time NAS directory setup, the review workflow, and
how to reset QA data.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
