docs(blog): single-command self-hosting and test suite UI

docs/blog/posts/2026-08-17-one-command-self-hosting.md

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+---
+title: Fluxify now starts from a single docker run
+date: 2026-08-17
+author: Prajwal Aradhya
+tags:
+  - release
+  - self-hosting
+  - engineering
+---
+
+# Fluxify now starts from a single docker run
+
+Trying Fluxify used to mean copying an environment file, filling in a database URL, a cache host, and an event bus token, then bringing up four containers with `docker compose` before you'd seen a single screen of the product. That's a reasonable price to pay for a production deployment, but it's the wrong first five minutes for someone who just wants to see what Fluxify does.
+
+The trial image now ships everything it needs. One command:
+
+```bash
+docker run -d --name fluxify \
+  -p 8080:8080 \
+  -v fluxify_data:/data \
+  -e SEED_USER_EMAIL=admin@example.com \
+  -e SEED_USER_PASSWORD=ChangeThisPassword123! \
+  fluxify-kit
+```
+
+and you have a complete stack: the dashboard, the API, the database, the cache, and the event bus, all up and healthy behind port `8080`.
+
+## Still the same image, still your choice
+
+Nothing was removed. Bringing your own database, cache, and event bus with `docker compose` is still fully supported, for anyone who wants their data in infrastructure they already manage. The image just decides for itself which mode to run in: if you hand it a database connection string, it uses yours, and if you don't, it starts its own inside the container. Same image, same compose file, no separate build to maintain.
+
+## What actually changed underneath
+
+Getting a single container to boot a full stack reliably surfaced a handful of problems that only show up once everything genuinely has to start together and stay up:
+
+- **A dead service used to leave the container "running."** If one internal piece crashed, the container kept reporting healthy while quietly serving nothing. Now the whole container exits the moment anything inside it dies, so your restart policy actually gets a chance to fix it, instead of a demo that looks fine and answers nothing.
+- **The health check was pointed at a URL that didn't exist**, so a perfectly healthy instance could never report itself as ready.
+- **A missing admin email or password used to fail late and vaguely.** A fresh instance now refuses to start at all without both, rather than coming up with no way to log in.
+- **The dashboard is a static bundle now**, served directly rather than run as its own Node process. One less moving part inside the container, and the whole thing comes in under 340MB.
+
+None of this changes how you run Fluxify in production, that path is untouched and still the recommended one for anything beyond a trial. It changes how long it takes to find out whether Fluxify is worth running in production at all.
+
+## A UI to actually test what you build
+
+The other big piece this week: `apps/portal`, the current dashboard, had no way to create or run test suites at all. The backend for sandboxed test execution had been built out over a run of earlier issues, but every screen for it lived only in the legacy dashboard, so once that gets retired a user could build routes and blocks but never write a single test for them. [Issue #227](https://github.com/Fluxify-rest/Fluxify/issues/227) tracked closing that gap, and [PR #253](https://github.com/Fluxify-rest/Fluxify/pull/253) shipped it.
+
+The new UI covers the full loop: create and edit a suite for a route, define assertions against the status code, body, headers, timing, or a custom JS check, override app config and integrations so a test run doesn't touch production data, then run one suite or every suite for a route and watch results fill in as they finish rather than waiting on a single spinner. A run that times out or errors says so plainly instead of showing an empty result.
+
+![Test suite UI showing run results for a route](/test-suites/demo-blog.png)
+
+## Try it
+
+Full walkthrough, including how to point it at your own database instead of the bundled one, is in the [Kit deployment guide](/deployments/kit).

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