Deploying to the Cloud

To run webAgent as an always-on service rather than on your desktop, two common paths
are supported:

• Google Cloud Run — a container that scales to zero when idle. Configuration is read

from environment variables (so secrets and database settings are locked to the
environment rather than editable files), and file-based extras like uploads and
generated pages are treated as ephemeral, which Cloud Run requires. Browser control
works headlessly there.

• A virtual machine with a persistent disk — a regular always-on server where data

lives on attached storage.

For cloud deployments you'll typically pair the app with a managed Postgres database so data persists, and choose an env or cloud secrets vault. Which edition you ship — full vs. a vetted production
subset — is covered in Editions and the Production Path.

To expose a self-hosted machine instead of deploying to the cloud, see Remote Access (Reach Your PC from Anywhere).