# Frontend deployment

Next.js and Payload run in the same frontend container. The maintained deployment
procedure is [docs/DEPLOY.md](../docs/DEPLOY.md), with the production and staging
Portainer compose files at the repository root.

The frontend Dockerfile builds a standalone Next.js image. Runtime configuration
supplies `FASTAPI_URL`, `DATABASE_URL` and `PAYLOAD_SECRET`; uploaded CMS media is
persisted in a volume. Promote the built image through the repository's Gitea
workflow after human staging approval.

Earlier Vercel and standalone deployment recipes have been retired from this file
because they do not describe the current CMS, persistence and promotion setup.
See [development](../docs/DEVELOPMENT.md) for checks and
[publishing](docs/PUBLISHING.md) for CMS operations.