iblai-api-infrastructure
How the ibl.ai platform is deployed and self-hosted on infrastructure you control: the AWS topology, the tooling that provisions it, the SSO wiring for the edX LMS, and the agent-sandbox (claw) gateway servers that back live agent chat.
Unlike the other iblai-api-* skills, this one is not a REST reference — it doesn't call api.iblai.app, and it needs no IBLAIORG / IBLAIAPI_KEY. It documents server provisioning, ssh / CLI / Terraform / Ansible workflows, and provider consoles. Access to the ibl.ai Docker images and platform codebase requires a license — see ibl.ai/contact.
When to use
- Standing up the platform on your own AWS account (or an existing server / bare
metal) — start with [references/infra-cli.md](references/infra-cli.md), and see [references/aws-architecture.md](references/aws-architecture.md) for the resulting topology.
- Launching or rebuilding staging environments from pre-baked AMIs via CI —
[references/ami-pipeline.md](references/ami-pipeline.md).
- Adding Single Sign-On (Google, Microsoft/Entra, Apple, or a generic OIDC provider)
to the Open edX LMS — [references/edx-sso.md](references/edx-sso.md).
- Deploying an agent-sandbox gateway (OpenClaw on a VPS/Hetzner, or NVIDIA NemoClaw)
and connecting it to the platform — [references/claw-servers.md](references/claw-servers.md).
For the API side — registering a claw instance, storing its device keypair, pushing config, health checks, and setting an agent's model — use /iblai-api-agent-sandbox. Deploy the server here, then wire it up there.
Scope note
These guides reference server-level and provider-level surfaces (SSH, systemd, cloud firewall consoles, the LMS Django admin) because that is the actual deployment mechanism — this is the ops complement to the endpoint-focused REST skills, not a UI walkthrough of api.iblai.app.
Reference material
Everything is in references/ — pick the file for the job. Each is self-contained enough to deploy from:
- [
references/aws-architecture.md](references/aws-architecture.md) — single-server
and multi-server AWS topology (VPC, subnets, ALB, EC2, ACM certs and their exact subdomains, S3 buckets, security groups), the provision → Terraform → Ansible flow, and the 9 Ansible roles with their full container inventory.
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references/infra-cli.md](references/infra-cli.md) — the iblai-infra-cli
provisioner: prerequisites, install (uv/pip), provision / setup / list / status / auth / destroy commands, the 9 setup roles, what Terraform + Ansible create, authentication, and the ~/.iblai-infra workspace.
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references/ami-pipeline.md](references/ami-pipeline.md) — the GitHub Actions
golden-AMI launch pipeline for stg1–stg4: permanent vs ephemeral infra, AMI contents, the 6 pipeline steps (incl. the 14-step Ansible service-update), timing, repo map, secrets/variables, the IAM policy, known cold-boot behaviors, and how to bake a new AMI.
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references/edx-sso.md](references/edx-sso.md) — adding SSO IdPs to the edX LMS:
the deployment-config vs Django-admin layers, the plugin gate, per-provider setup (Google, Microsoft, Apple's signed-JWT secret, generic OIDC with full claim/endpoint config), running multiple OIDC providers, org linking via TRACKEDPROVIDERS / platformkey, apply/restart, verification, and troubleshooting.
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references/claw-servers.md](references/claw-servers.md) — deploying an
OpenClaw or NemoClaw gateway end to end: architecture, prerequisites, install, the full openclaw.json config, Caddy + Let's Encrypt, firewall (cloud + UFW), validation, Ed25519 device-identity signing, connecting to the platform, multi-agent setups, updates, monitoring, the device re-pairing problem with its full solution catalog, and the OpenClaw + NemoClaw snags tables.