diff --git a/.drone-home.star b/.drone-home.star
index d36514a..11ce8ed 100644
--- a/.drone-home.star
+++ b/.drone-home.star
@@ -6,10 +6,12 @@ def main(ctx):
     ctx,
     "home-deploy",
     "/stack/deploy",
-    "gitea",
+    "stack",
     [
-      "docker service scale gitea_ngrok=1",
-      "docker service scale gitea_chat=1",
+      "docker service scale stack_ngrok=1",
+      "docker service scale stack_chat=1",
+      "docker service scale stack_letsencrypt-drone=1",
+      "docker service scale stack_letsencrypt-git=1",
     ]
   )
   
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7486b2a..2b2655d 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -60,3 +60,90 @@ git checkout home-deploy
 
 ```
 
+### make certificates for the registry
+
+these certificates will be in .ca and .certificates
+where $REGISTRY_DOMAIN is the host where the stack will run.
+
+```
+cd certificates
+sh ca.sh $REGISTRY_DOMAIN:5003
+sh make-cert.sh $REGISTRY_DOMAIN registry
+```
+
+### make environment variables
+
+```
+export CERTBOT_EMAIL=giles.bradshaw@sigyl.com
+export DRONE_DOMAIN=drone.git.sigyl.com
+export DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_ID=
+export DRONE_GITEA_SERVER=
+export DRONE_SERVER_HOST=drone.git.sigyl.com
+export GIT_DOMAIN=git.sigyl.com
+export LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY=git.local-domain:5003/
+export SSH_USER=giles
+export GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_DB=guacamole_db
+export GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_USER=guacamole_user
+export DRONE_CONVERT_SECRET=topsecret
+export DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_SECRET=
+export DRONE_RPC_SECRET=topsecret2
+export GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD=[passwordnospaces]
+export NGROK_AUTH_TOKEN=[secret token from ngrok]
+```
+
+### build images
+
+where $STACK_HOME = /stack/deploy
+
+```
+sh build.sh $STACK_HOME
+```
+
+### initial deploy of stack
+
+```
+cd /stack/deploy
+docker stack deploy -c docker-compose-home.yml stack
+```
+
+### initialise postgres database
+
+find postgres id as $ID
+
+```
+docker ps | grep stack_guacamole-postgresql.1
+```
+
+```
+sh init-postgresql.sh $ID
+```
+
+## initialise mongo
+
+get mongo id as $ID
+
+```
+docker ps | grep stack_chat-mongo.1
+```
+
+```
+sh init-mongo-chat.sh $ID
+```
+
+
+### scale chat and ngrok and nginx
+
+```
+sh init-scale.sh stack
+```
+
+### create a gitea drone application
+
+set environment variables as follows (example values):
+
+```
+export DRONE_GITEA_SERVER=https://sigyl.com/git
+export DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_ID=38218ed5-cf18-47e7-1234-710173dae499
+export DRONE_GITEA_CLIENT_SECRET=ytsgdyXI_6zUrqwsI1wsssBAaUcsp27EyecT4nk5fA=
+```
+
diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5222406
--- /dev/null
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+set -e
+cd $1/ngrok-gitea
+docker build . -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}ngrok-gitea
+cd $1/guacamole-postgresql
+docker build . -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}guacamole-postgresql
+cd $1/letsencrypt-nginx
+docker build . -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-nginx
+cd $1/drone-starlark
+docker build . -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}drone-starlark
+cd $1/letsencrypt-nginx
+sh build.sh Dockerfile.git ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-nginx ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-git
+sh build.sh Dockerfile.drone ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-nginx ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-drone
diff --git a/docker-compose-home.yml b/docker-compose-home.yml
index 467f643..49d03bb 100644
--- a/docker-compose-home.yml
+++ b/docker-compose-home.yml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ services:
     deploy:
       placement:
         constraints: [node.labels.com.sigyl.git-stack == yes]
-      replicas: 1
+      replicas: 0
       restart_policy:
         condition: any
     image: ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-git
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ services:
     deploy:
       placement:
         constraints: [node.labels.com.sigyl.git-stack == yes]
-      replicas: 1
+      replicas: 0
       restart_policy:
         condition: any
     image: ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}letsencrypt-drone
diff --git a/guacamole-postgresql/init-user.sql b/guacamole-postgresql/init-user.sql
index 6edcbd9..9ecfa61 100644
--- a/guacamole-postgresql/init-user.sql
+++ b/guacamole-postgresql/init-user.sql
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-CREATE USER :'user' WITH PASSWORD :'password';
-GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO :'user';
-GRANT SELECT,USAGE ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO :'user';
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+CREATE USER :user WITH PASSWORD :'password';
+GRANT SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO :user;
+GRANT SELECT,USAGE ON ALL SEQUENCES IN SCHEMA public TO :user;
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diff --git a/init-mongo-chat.sh b/init-mongo-chat.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6035052
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-mongo-chat.sh
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+docker exec -it $1 mongo --eval "printjson(rs.initiate({_id: 'rs0', members: [ { _id: 0, host: 'localhost:27017' } ]}))"
diff --git a/init-postgresql.sh b/init-postgresql.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8f24b71
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-postgresql.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+docker exec -it $1 psql -U postgres -d $GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_DB -f /initdb.sql
+docker exec -it $1 psql -U postgres -d $GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_DB -f /init-user.sql -v password=$GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_PASSWORD -v user=$GUACAMOLE_POSTGRES_USER
diff --git a/init-scale.sh b/init-scale.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cf38b49
--- /dev/null
+++ b/init-scale.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+docker service scale $1_chat=1
+docker service scale $1_ngrok=1
+docker service scale $1_letsencrypt-drone=1
+docker service scale $1_letsencrypt-git=1
diff --git a/letsencrypt-nginx/build-docker-folder.sh b/letsencrypt-nginx/build-docker-folder.sh
index ba7c6a4..831d026 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-nginx/build-docker-folder.sh
+++ b/letsencrypt-nginx/build-docker-folder.sh
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 set -e
-docker build . -f $1 --build-arg image=$2 -t $3
+sh build.sh $1 $2 $3
 docker push $3
diff --git a/letsencrypt-nginx/build.home.sh b/letsencrypt-nginx/build.home.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index afc7c53..0000000
--- a/letsencrypt-nginx/build.home.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-set -e
-docker build . -f Dockerfile.home --build-arg image=nginx:latest -t $1nginx-home1
-docker push $1nginx-home1
diff --git a/letsencrypt-nginx/build.sh b/letsencrypt-nginx/build.sh
index 94da20c..f5104b0 100644
--- a/letsencrypt-nginx/build.sh
+++ b/letsencrypt-nginx/build.sh
@@ -1,3 +1 @@
-set -e
-docker build . -f Dockerfile.$1 --build-arg image=$2letsencrypt-nginx -t $2letsencrypt-$1
-docker push $2letsencrypt-$1
+docker build . -f $1 --build-arg image=$2 -t $3
diff --git a/n b/n
deleted file mode 100644
index e69de29..0000000
diff --git a/ngrok-build.sh b/ngrok-build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 3e827ae..0000000
--- a/ngrok-build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-docker build ngrok-gitea -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/ngrok-gitea
-docker push ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/ngrok-gitea
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diff --git a/postgres-build.sh b/postgres-build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index 683f849..0000000
--- a/postgres-build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-docker build guacamole-postgresql -t ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/guacamole-postgresql
-docker push ${LOCAL_DOCKER_REGISTRY}/guacamole-postgresql
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