initial idea for how to structure ephemeral deployment moons

.github/helpers/create_moon.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# this script creates a moon for an ephemeral deployment on a ship.
+# assumes gcloud credentials are loaded and gcloud installed.
+
+ship=$1
+zone=$2
+project=$3
+
+echo "Creating a moon under $ship in $zone of $project"
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+cmdfile=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}moonspawn.XXXXXXXXX")
+moondir=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/urbit/}moondir.XXXXXXXXX")
+# mktemp only used for generating a random folder name below
+cmds='
+click -kp /urbit/natmud-mogzod \
+(our hoon thread to make a moon here) > $moondir/details ## need to provide actual hoon thread to extract moon name and keys + write to file
+moon_name =$(cat $moondir/details | grep "some pattern for getting moon name")
+moon_key =$(cat $moondir/details | grep "some pattern for getting moon key")
+mkdir $moondir/$moon_name
+urbit -w $moondir/$moon_name -k $moon_key ## we need to run this in a detached way
+curl ... #some check to see if the moon is up
+'
+echo "$cmds"
+echo "$cmds" >> "$cmdfile"
+sshpriv=$(mktemp "${TMPDIR:-/tmp/}ssh.XXXXXXXXX")
+sshpub=$sshpriv.pub
+echo "$SSH_PUB_KEY" >> "$sshpub"
+echo "$SSH_SEC_KEY" >> "$sshpriv"
+chmod 600 $sshpub
+chmod 600 $sshpriv
+
+gcloud compute \
+  --project "$project" \
+  ssh \
+  --tunnel-through-iap \
+  --ssh-key-file "$sshpriv" \
+  --ssh-flag="-T" \
+  --zone "$zone" --verbosity info \
+  urb@"$ship" < "$cmdfile"
+
+echo "moon created"

.github/workflows/deploy-ephemeral.yml

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+name: Deploy Groups (ephemeral)
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'do/ephemeral-moons'
+
+  #pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  build-frontend:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: 'Build Frontend'
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Setup Node.js environment
+        uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
+
+      - name: Install Dependencies
+        run: npm ci
+
+      - working-directory: ./apps/tlon-web
+        run:
+          npm run build
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: 'ui-dist'
+          path:  apps/tlon-web/dist
+
+  glob:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: 'Make a glob'
+    needs: build-frontend
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v4
+        with:
+          name: 'ui-dist'
+          path: apps/tlon-web/dist
+      - id: 'auth'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v1'
+        with:
+          credentials_json: '${{ secrets.GCP_SERVICE_KEY }}'
+      - name: 'Set up Cloud SDK'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1'
+      - name: 'glob'
+        uses: ./.github/actions/glob
+        with:
+          folder: 'apps/tlon-web/dist/*'
+          docket: 'desk/desk.docket-0'
+      - name: Commit and Push Glob
+        run: |
+          git config --global user.name github-actions
+          git config --global user.email [email protected]
+          git add desk/desk.docket-0
+          git commit -n -m "update glob: ${{ steps.glob.outputs.hash }} [skip actions]" || echo "No changes to commit"
+          INPUT=${{ env.tag }}
+          BRANCH=${INPUT:-"staging"}
+          git pull origin $BRANCH --rebase --autostash
+          git push
+
+  create_moon:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: "Create Moon"
+    needs: glob
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - id: 'auth'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v1'
+        with:
+          credentials_json: '${{ secrets.GCP_SERVICE_KEY }}'
+      - name: 'Set up Cloud SDK'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1'
+      - id: create_moon
+        name: Create Moon
+        run: |
+          ./.github/helpers/create_moon.sh ephemeral-landscape-apps-moon-host us-central1-a mainnet-tlon-other-2d
+        env:
+          SSH_SEC_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SSH_SEC_KEY }}
+          SSH_PUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SSH_PUB_KEY }}
+
+
+  deploy:
+    needs: create_moon
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: "Release to ~binnec-dozzod-marnus (canary)"
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - id: 'auth'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/auth@v1'
+        with:
+          credentials_json: '${{ secrets.GCP_SERVICE_KEY }}'
+      - name: 'Set up Cloud SDK'
+        uses: 'google-github-actions/setup-gcloud@v1'
+      - id: deploy
+        name: Deploy
+        run:
+          ./.github/helpers/deploy.sh tloncorp/landscape-apps groups ${{ needs.build_test_images.outputs.moon_name }} us-central1-a mainnet-tlon-other-2d
+        env:
+          SSH_SEC_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SSH_SEC_KEY }}
+          SSH_PUB_KEY: ${{ secrets.GCP_SSH_PUB_KEY }}
+          URBIT_REPO_TAG: ${{ vars.URBIT_REPO_TAG }}