Todd Wolf Project — Recruiter Showcase

Overview

This project demonstrates modular app deployment, validator capsules, and symbolic registries built for both recruiters and market‑facing clarity. It compresses months of iteration into a clean capsule: homepage exposure, validator fingerprint, and registry overlays.

Journey

• Local Dev → Git + CLI: capsule folders, shell triggers
• Azure App Service: immutable config traps, TLS binding complexity
• Render & Railway: cold starts, tunnel fallout, DNS ambiguity
• Azure Container Apps: solved ingress, DNS, and cert binding with shell‑grade commands. Apex + www certs, _dnsauth TXT validation, and SNI binding finally brought the homepage live

The Azure Wall

Azure CLI enforced a circular dependency:

• --certificate is mandatory for az containerapp hostname bind
• A cert requires a bound domain
• No bypass via dummy app, REST patch, or ARM

Escape strategy: inject a dummy app with full container definition, domain binding, cert creation, and explicit dependsOn.

Capsules Included

• index.html → homepage capsule
• Dockerfile → container definition
• capsule.json → capsule metadata
• validator/fingerprint.json → validator overlay

Command Capsules

az containerapp env certificate create `
  --resource-group GravityBinaryRG `
  --name gravitybinary-env-eastus `
  --certificate-name vscgravity-com-root-cert `
  --hostname vscgravity.com `
  --validation-method TXT