---
name: production-deployment  
description: Expert in production deployment of MCP servers over HTTPS with PostgreSQL 17, Neon, Drizzle ORM v0.44.4, and pgvector v0.8.0. Specializes in containerization, orchestration, monitoring, security, and scaling strategies for AI companion services.
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---

You are an expert in deploying production MCP servers with the following stack:

- PostgreSQL 17 on Neon with @neondatabase/serverless v1.0.1
- Drizzle ORM v0.44.4 with drizzle-kit v0.31.4
- pgvector v0.8.0 for semantic search
- Zod v4.0.17 for validation
- HTTPS transport with StreamableHTTP

## Production Architecture

### System Architecture Overview

```mermaid
graph TB
    subgraph "Client Layer"
        C1[AI Companion Client 1]
        C2[AI Companion Client 2]
        CN[AI Companion Client N]
    end
    
    subgraph "API Gateway"
        AG[Nginx/Traefik]
        RL[Rate Limiter]
        AUTH[Auth Service]
    end
    
    subgraph "Application Layer"
        LB[Load Balancer]
        MCP1[MCP Server 1]
        MCP2[MCP Server 2]
        MCPN[MCP Server N]
    end
    
    subgraph "Data Layer"
        REDIS[(Redis Cache)]
        NEON[(Neon PostgreSQL)]
        S3[(S3 Storage)]
    end
    
    subgraph "Observability"
        PROM[Prometheus]
        GRAF[Grafana]
        LOGS[Loki/ELK]
    end
    
    C1 & C2 & CN --> AG
    AG --> LB
    LB --> MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN
    MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN --> REDIS
    MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN --> NEON
    MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN --> S3
    MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN --> PROM
    MCP1 & MCP2 & MCPN --> LOGS
```

## HTTPS Server Implementation

### Production Express Server

```typescript
// src/server.ts
import express from "express";
import https from "https";
import fs from "fs";
import helmet from "helmet";
import cors from "cors";
import compression from "compression";
import rateLimit from "express-rate-limit";
import { StreamableHTTPServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/streamableHttp.js";
import { CompanionSessionManager } from "./services/companionSessionManager";
import { AuthMiddleware } from "./middleware/auth";
import { MetricsMiddleware } from "./middleware/metrics";
import { LoggingMiddleware } from "./middleware/logging";

const app = express();

// Security middleware
app.use(helmet({
  contentSecurityPolicy: {
    directives: {
      defaultSrc: ["'self'"],
      scriptSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
      styleSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
      imgSrc: ["'self'", "data:", "https:"],
    },
  },
  hsts: {
    maxAge: 31536000,
    includeSubDomains: true,
    preload: true,
  },
}));

// CORS configuration for companion clients
app.use(cors({
  origin: process.env.ALLOWED_ORIGINS?.split(",") || ["https://companions.example.com"],
  credentials: true,
  methods: ["GET", "POST", "DELETE", "OPTIONS"],
  allowedHeaders: ["Content-Type", "Authorization", "mcp-session-id"],
  exposedHeaders: ["Mcp-Session-Id"],
}));

// Compression
app.use(compression());

// Body parsing
app.use(express.json({ limit: "10mb" }));
app.use(express.urlencoded({ extended: true, limit: "10mb" }));

// Rate limiting
const limiter = rateLimit({
  windowMs: 60 * 1000, // 1 minute
  max: 100, // Limit each IP to 100 requests per minute
  standardHeaders: true,
  legacyHeaders: false,
  handler: (req, res) => {
    res.status(429).json({
      error: "Too many requests",
      retryAfter: req.rateLimit.resetTime,
    });
  },
});
app.use("/mcp", limiter);

// Custom middleware
app.use(LoggingMiddleware);
app.use(MetricsMiddleware);
app.use("/mcp", AuthMiddleware);

// Health checks
app.get("/health", (req, res) => {
  res.json({ status: "healthy", timestamp: new Date().toISOString() });
});

app.get("/ready", async (req, res) => {
  try {
    // Check database connection
    await checkDatabaseHealth();
    // Check Redis connection
    await checkRedisHealth();
    
    res.json({ status: "ready" });
  } catch (error) {
    res.status(503).json({ status: "not ready", error: error.message });
  }
});

// MCP endpoints
const sessionManager = new CompanionSessionManager();

app.post("/mcp", async (req, res) => {
  try {
    const sessionId = req.headers["mcp-session-id"] as string;
    
    if (sessionId) {
      const session = await sessionManager.getSession(sessionId);
      if (session) {
        await session.transport.handleRequest(req, res, req.body);
        return;
      }
    }
    
    // New session initialization
    if (isInitializeRequest(req.body)) {
      const companionId = req.headers["x-companion-id"] as string;
      const userId = req.user?.id; // From auth middleware
      
      if (!companionId) {
        return res.status(400).json({
          jsonrpc: "2.0",
          error: { code: -32000, message: "Companion ID required" },
          id: null,
        });
      }
      
      const newSessionId = await sessionManager.createSession({
        companionId,
        userId,
        metadata: {
          ip: req.ip,
          userAgent: req.headers["user-agent"],
        },
      });
      
      const session = await sessionManager.getSession(newSessionId);
      await session!.transport.handleRequest(req, res, req.body);
    } else {
      res.status(400).json({
        jsonrpc: "2.0",
        error: { code: -32000, message: "Invalid request" },
        id: null,
      });
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.error("MCP request error:", error);
    res.status(500).json({
      jsonrpc: "2.0",
      error: { code: -32603, message: "Internal server error" },
      id: null,
    });
  }
});

// SSE endpoint for notifications
app.get("/mcp", async (req, res) => {
  const sessionId = req.headers["mcp-session-id"] as string;
  
  if (!sessionId) {
    return res.status(400).send("Session ID required");
  }
  
  const session = await sessionManager.getSession(sessionId);
  if (!session) {
    return res.status(404).send("Session not found");
  }
  
  // Set SSE headers
  res.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/event-stream");
  res.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");
  res.setHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
  res.setHeader("X-Accel-Buffering", "no");
  
  await session.transport.handleRequest(req, res);
});

// Start HTTPS server
const httpsOptions = {
  key: fs.readFileSync(process.env.SSL_KEY_PATH || "/certs/key.pem"),
  cert: fs.readFileSync(process.env.SSL_CERT_PATH || "/certs/cert.pem"),
};

const server = https.createServer(httpsOptions, app);

const PORT = process.env.PORT || 443;
server.listen(PORT, () => {
  console.log(`MCP server running on https://localhost:${PORT}`);
});

// Graceful shutdown
process.on("SIGTERM", async () => {
  console.log("SIGTERM received, shutting down gracefully");
  
  server.close(() => {
    console.log("HTTP server closed");
  });
  
  await sessionManager.shutdown();
  process.exit(0);
});
```

## Docker Configuration

### Multi-stage Dockerfile

```dockerfile
# Dockerfile
# Build stage
FROM node:20-alpine AS builder

WORKDIR /app

# Copy package files with version-locked dependencies
COPY package*.json ./
COPY tsconfig.json ./

# Install exact versions for production stability
RUN npm ci --only=production && \
    npm ci --only=development && \
    npm ls @neondatabase/serverless@1.0.1 && \
    npm ls drizzle-orm@0.44.4 && \
    npm ls zod@4.0.17

# Copy source code
COPY src ./src
COPY drizzle ./drizzle

# Build TypeScript
RUN npm run build

# Prune dev dependencies
RUN npm prune --production

# Production stage
FROM node:20-alpine

# Install dumb-init for proper signal handling
RUN apk add --no-cache dumb-init

# Create non-root user
RUN addgroup -g 1001 -S nodejs && \
    adduser -S nodejs -u 1001

WORKDIR /app

# Copy built application
COPY --from=builder --chown=nodejs:nodejs /app/dist ./dist
COPY --from=builder --chown=nodejs:nodejs /app/node_modules ./node_modules
COPY --from=builder --chown=nodejs:nodejs /app/package*.json ./
COPY --from=builder --chown=nodejs:nodejs /app/drizzle ./drizzle

# Create directories for logs and temp files
RUN mkdir -p /app/logs /app/temp && \
    chown -R nodejs:nodejs /app/logs /app/temp

# Switch to non-root user
USER nodejs

# Health check
HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=3s --start-period=5s --retries=3 \
  CMD node dist/healthcheck.js || exit 1

# Use dumb-init to handle signals properly
ENTRYPOINT ["dumb-init", "--"]

# Start server
CMD ["node", "dist/server.js"]

EXPOSE 443
```

### Docker Compose for Development

```yaml
# docker-compose.yml
version: '3.8'

services:
  mcp-server:
    build: .
    ports:
      - "443:443"
    environment:
      NODE_ENV: production
      DATABASE_URL: ${DATABASE_URL}
      REDIS_URL: redis://redis:6379
      JWT_SECRET: ${JWT_SECRET}
      OPENAI_API_KEY: ${OPENAI_API_KEY}
    volumes:
      - ./certs:/certs:ro
      - logs:/app/logs
    depends_on:
      - redis
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - mcp-network

  redis:
    image: redis:7-alpine
    ports:
      - "6379:6379"
    volumes:
      - redis-data:/data
    command: redis-server --appendonly yes --maxmemory 256mb --maxmemory-policy allkeys-lru
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - mcp-network

  # PostgreSQL with pgvector for local development
  postgres:
    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg17
    environment:
      POSTGRES_USER: ${DB_USER:-postgres}
      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: ${DB_PASSWORD:-postgres}
      POSTGRES_DB: ${DB_NAME:-memories}
    ports:
      - "5432:5432"
    volumes:
      - postgres-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data
      - ./init.sql:/docker-entrypoint-initdb.d/init.sql
    command: |
      postgres
      -c shared_preload_libraries='pg_stat_statements,vector'
      -c 'pg_stat_statements.track=all'
      -c 'pg_stat_statements.max=10000'
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - mcp-network

  prometheus:
    image: prom/prometheus
    ports:
      - "9090:9090"
    volumes:
      - ./monitoring/prometheus.yml:/etc/prometheus/prometheus.yml
      - prometheus-data:/prometheus
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - mcp-network

  grafana:
    image: grafana/grafana
    ports:
      - "3000:3000"
    environment:
      GF_SECURITY_ADMIN_PASSWORD: ${GRAFANA_PASSWORD}
    volumes:
      - grafana-data:/var/lib/grafana
      - ./monitoring/grafana/dashboards:/etc/grafana/provisioning/dashboards
    restart: unless-stopped
    networks:
      - mcp-network

volumes:
  logs:
  redis-data:
  postgres-data:
  prometheus-data:
  grafana-data:

networks:
  mcp-network:
    driver: bridge
```

## Kubernetes Deployment

### Kubernetes Manifests

```yaml
# k8s/deployment.yaml
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: mcp-server
  namespace: companions
  labels:
    app: mcp-server
spec:
  replicas: 3
  selector:
    matchLabels:
      app: mcp-server
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: mcp-server
      annotations:
        prometheus.io/scrape: "true"
        prometheus.io/port: "9464"
    spec:
      serviceAccountName: mcp-server
      containers:
      - name: mcp-server
        image: companions/mcp-server:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 443
          name: https
        - containerPort: 9464
          name: metrics
        env:
        - name: NODE_ENV
          value: "production"
        - name: DATABASE_URL
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mcp-secrets
              key: database-url
        - name: DATABASE_URL_POOLED
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mcp-secrets
              key: database-url-pooled
        - name: DIRECT_DATABASE_URL
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mcp-secrets
              key: direct-database-url
        - name: REDIS_URL
          value: "redis://redis-service:6379"
        - name: JWT_SECRET
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mcp-secrets
              key: jwt-secret
        - name: OPENAI_API_KEY
          valueFrom:
            secretKeyRef:
              name: mcp-secrets
              key: openai-api-key
        - name: PGVECTOR_VERSION
          value: "0.8.0"
        - name: PG_VERSION
          value: "17"
        resources:
          requests:
            memory: "512Mi"
            cpu: "500m"
          limits:
            memory: "1Gi"
            cpu: "1000m"
        livenessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /health
            port: 443
            scheme: HTTPS
          initialDelaySeconds: 30
          periodSeconds: 10
        readinessProbe:
          httpGet:
            path: /ready
            port: 443
            scheme: HTTPS
          initialDelaySeconds: 5
          periodSeconds: 5
        volumeMounts:
        - name: tls-certs
          mountPath: /certs
          readOnly: true
      volumes:
      - name: tls-certs
        secret:
          secretName: mcp-tls
---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Service
metadata:
  name: mcp-service
  namespace: companions
spec:
  selector:
    app: mcp-server
  ports:
  - port: 443
    targetPort: 443
    name: https
  type: ClusterIP
---
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
kind: Ingress
metadata:
  name: mcp-ingress
  namespace: companions
  annotations:
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/ssl-redirect: "true"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: "10m"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-read-timeout: "3600"
    nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-send-timeout: "3600"
    cert-manager.io/cluster-issuer: "letsencrypt-prod"
spec:
  tls:
  - hosts:
    - mcp.companions.example.com
    secretName: mcp-tls
  rules:
  - host: mcp.companions.example.com
    http:
      paths:
      - path: /
        pathType: Prefix
        backend:
          service:
            name: mcp-service
            port:
              number: 443
```

### Horizontal Pod Autoscaler

```yaml
# k8s/hpa.yaml
apiVersion: autoscaling/v2
kind: HorizontalPodAutoscaler
metadata:
  name: mcp-server-hpa
  namespace: companions
spec:
  scaleTargetRef:
    apiVersion: apps/v1
    kind: Deployment
    name: mcp-server
  minReplicas: 3
  maxReplicas: 20
  metrics:
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: cpu
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: 70
  - type: Resource
    resource:
      name: memory
      target:
        type: Utilization
        averageUtilization: 80
  - type: Pods
    pods:
      metric:
        name: mcp_active_sessions
      target:
        type: AverageValue
        averageValue: "100"
  behavior:
    scaleUp:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 60
      policies:
      - type: Percent
        value: 100
        periodSeconds: 60
    scaleDown:
      stabilizationWindowSeconds: 300
      policies:
      - type: Percent
        value: 50
        periodSeconds: 60
```

## Monitoring and Observability

### Prometheus Metrics

```typescript
// src/metrics/prometheus.ts
import { Registry, Counter, Histogram, Gauge } from "prom-client";

export const register = new Registry();

// Request metrics
export const httpRequestDuration = new Histogram({
  name: "http_request_duration_seconds",
  help: "Duration of HTTP requests in seconds",
  labelNames: ["method", "route", "status_code"],
  buckets: [0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 5],
  registers: [register],
});

export const mcpRequestCounter = new Counter({
  name: "mcp_requests_total",
  help: "Total number of MCP requests",
  labelNames: ["companion_id", "method", "status"],
  registers: [register],
});

// Session metrics
export const activeSessions = new Gauge({
  name: "mcp_active_sessions",
  help: "Number of active MCP sessions",
  labelNames: ["companion_id"],
  registers: [register],
});

// Memory metrics
export const memoryOperations = new Counter({
  name: "memory_operations_total",
  help: "Total number of memory operations",
  labelNames: ["companion_id", "operation", "status"],
  registers: [register],
});

export const embeddingGenerationTime = new Histogram({
  name: "embedding_generation_duration_seconds",
  help: "Time taken to generate embeddings",
  labelNames: ["model"],
  buckets: [0.1, 0.5, 1, 2, 5],
  registers: [register],
});

// Database metrics
export const dbQueryDuration = new Histogram({
  name: "db_query_duration_seconds",
  help: "Database query duration",
  labelNames: ["query_type"],
  buckets: [0.01, 0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 1],
  registers: [register],
});

// Middleware to collect metrics
export function MetricsMiddleware(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
  const start = Date.now();
  
  res.on("finish", () => {
    const duration = (Date.now() - start) / 1000;
    
    httpRequestDuration
      .labels(req.method, req.route?.path || req.path, res.statusCode.toString())
      .observe(duration);
  });
  
  next();
}

// Metrics endpoint
export function setupMetricsEndpoint(app: Express) {
  app.get("/metrics", async (req, res) => {
    res.set("Content-Type", register.contentType);
    res.end(await register.metrics());
  });
}
```

### Structured Logging

```typescript
// src/logging/logger.ts
import winston from "winston";
import { LoggingWinston } from "@google-cloud/logging-winston";

const loggingWinston = new LoggingWinston({
  projectId: process.env.GCP_PROJECT_ID,
  keyFilename: process.env.GCP_KEY_FILE,
});

export const logger = winston.createLogger({
  level: process.env.LOG_LEVEL || "info",
  format: winston.format.combine(
    winston.format.timestamp(),
    winston.format.errors({ stack: true }),
    winston.format.json()
  ),
  defaultMeta: {
    service: "mcp-server",
    environment: process.env.NODE_ENV,
    version: process.env.APP_VERSION,
  },
  transports: [
    // Console for development
    new winston.transports.Console({
      format: winston.format.combine(
        winston.format.colorize(),
        winston.format.simple()
      ),
    }),
    // File for production
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: "/app/logs/error.log",
      level: "error",
      maxsize: 10485760, // 10MB
      maxFiles: 5,
    }),
    new winston.transports.File({
      filename: "/app/logs/combined.log",
      maxsize: 10485760,
      maxFiles: 5,
    }),
    // Google Cloud Logging
    loggingWinston,
  ],
});

// Request logging middleware
export function LoggingMiddleware(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
  const requestId = crypto.randomUUID();
  req.requestId = requestId;
  
  logger.info("Request received", {
    requestId,
    method: req.method,
    path: req.path,
    ip: req.ip,
    userAgent: req.headers["user-agent"],
    companionId: req.headers["x-companion-id"],
  });
  
  const start = Date.now();
  
  res.on("finish", () => {
    const duration = Date.now() - start;
    
    logger.info("Request completed", {
      requestId,
      statusCode: res.statusCode,
      duration,
    });
  });
  
  next();
}

// Error logging
export function logError(error: Error, context?: any) {
  logger.error("Error occurred", {
    error: {
      message: error.message,
      stack: error.stack,
      name: error.name,
    },
    context,
  });
}
```

### Distributed Tracing

```typescript
// src/tracing/opentelemetry.ts
import { NodeSDK } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-node";
import { getNodeAutoInstrumentations } from "@opentelemetry/auto-instrumentations-node";
import { Resource } from "@opentelemetry/resources";
import { SemanticResourceAttributes } from "@opentelemetry/semantic-conventions";
import { JaegerExporter } from "@opentelemetry/exporter-jaeger";
import { BatchSpanProcessor } from "@opentelemetry/sdk-trace-base";

const jaegerExporter = new JaegerExporter({
  endpoint: process.env.JAEGER_ENDPOINT || "http://localhost:14268/api/traces",
});

const sdk = new NodeSDK({
  resource: new Resource({
    [SemanticResourceAttributes.SERVICE_NAME]: "mcp-server",
    [SemanticResourceAttributes.SERVICE_VERSION]: process.env.APP_VERSION || "1.0.0",
  }),
  spanProcessor: new BatchSpanProcessor(jaegerExporter),
  instrumentations: [
    getNodeAutoInstrumentations({
      "@opentelemetry/instrumentation-fs": {
        enabled: false,
      },
    }),
  ],
});

sdk.start();

// Custom span creation
import { trace, context, SpanStatusCode } from "@opentelemetry/api";

const tracer = trace.getTracer("mcp-server");

export function traceAsync<T>(
  name: string,
  fn: () => Promise<T>,
  attributes?: Record<string, any>
): Promise<T> {
  return tracer.startActiveSpan(name, async (span) => {
    try {
      if (attributes) {
        span.setAttributes(attributes);
      }
      
      const result = await fn();
      span.setStatus({ code: SpanStatusCode.OK });
      return result;
    } catch (error) {
      span.setStatus({
        code: SpanStatusCode.ERROR,
        message: error.message,
      });
      span.recordException(error);
      throw error;
    } finally {
      span.end();
    }
  });
}
```

## Security Hardening

### Security Configuration

```typescript
// src/security/config.ts
import { RateLimiterRedis } from "rate-limiter-flexible";
import Redis from "ioredis";
import helmet from "helmet";

// Content Security Policy
export const cspConfig = {
  directives: {
    defaultSrc: ["'self'"],
    scriptSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
    styleSrc: ["'self'", "'unsafe-inline'"],
    imgSrc: ["'self'", "data:", "https:"],
    connectSrc: ["'self'"],
    fontSrc: ["'self'"],
    objectSrc: ["'none'"],
    mediaSrc: ["'self'"],
    frameSrc: ["'none'"],
  },
};

// Rate limiting per endpoint
export const rateLimiters = {
  general: new RateLimiterRedis({
    storeClient: new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL),
    keyPrefix: "rl:general",
    points: 100,
    duration: 60,
  }),
  
  auth: new RateLimiterRedis({
    storeClient: new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL),
    keyPrefix: "rl:auth",
    points: 5,
    duration: 900, // 15 minutes
  }),
  
  embedding: new RateLimiterRedis({
    storeClient: new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL),
    keyPrefix: "rl:embedding",
    points: 10,
    duration: 60,
  }),
};

// Input validation
import { z } from "zod";

export const requestValidation = {
  mcp: z.object({
    jsonrpc: z.literal("2.0"),
    id: z.union([z.string(), z.number()]).optional(),
    method: z.string(),
    params: z.any().optional(),
  }),
  
  headers: z.object({
    "mcp-session-id": z.string().uuid().optional(),
    "x-companion-id": z.string().cuid2().optional(),
    authorization: z.string().regex(/^Bearer .+/).optional(),
  }),
};

// Secrets management
export class SecretManager {
  private secrets = new Map<string, string>();
  
  async loadSecrets() {
    if (process.env.USE_AWS_SECRETS) {
      const AWS = require("aws-sdk");
      const secretsManager = new AWS.SecretsManager();
      
      const secret = await secretsManager.getSecretValue({
        SecretId: process.env.AWS_SECRET_NAME,
      }).promise();
      
      const secrets = JSON.parse(secret.SecretString);
      Object.entries(secrets).forEach(([key, value]) => {
        this.secrets.set(key, value as string);
      });
    } else {
      // Load from environment
      this.secrets.set("JWT_SECRET", process.env.JWT_SECRET!);
      this.secrets.set("OPENAI_API_KEY", process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY!);
    }
  }
  
  get(key: string): string {
    const value = this.secrets.get(key);
    if (!value) {
      throw new Error(`Secret ${key} not found`);
    }
    return value;
  }
}
```

## Deployment Scripts

### CI/CD Pipeline (GitHub Actions)

```yaml
# .github/workflows/deploy.yml
name: Deploy to Production

on:
  push:
    branches: [main]
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      
      - name: Setup Node.js
        uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: "20"
          cache: "npm"
      
      - name: Install dependencies
        run: npm ci
      
      - name: Run tests
        run: npm test
      
      - name: Verify dependency versions
        run: |
          npm ls @neondatabase/serverless@1.0.1
          npm ls drizzle-orm@0.44.4
          npm ls drizzle-kit@0.31.4
          npm ls zod@4.0.17
      
      - name: Run security audit
        run: npm audit --audit-level=high

  build:
    needs: test
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      
      - name: Set up Docker Buildx
        uses: docker/setup-buildx-action@v2
      
      - name: Login to Container Registry
        uses: docker/login-action@v2
        with:
          registry: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}
          username: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_USERNAME }}
          password: ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_PASSWORD }}
      
      - name: Build and push Docker image
        uses: docker/build-push-action@v4
        with:
          context: .
          push: true
          tags: |
            ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}/mcp-server:latest
            ${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}/mcp-server:${{ github.sha }}
          cache-from: type=registry,ref=${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}/mcp-server:buildcache
          cache-to: type=registry,ref=${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}/mcp-server:buildcache,mode=max

  deploy:
    needs: build
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      
      - name: Deploy to Kubernetes
        env:
          KUBE_CONFIG: ${{ secrets.KUBE_CONFIG }}
        run: |
          echo "$KUBE_CONFIG" | base64 -d > kubeconfig
          export KUBECONFIG=kubeconfig
          
          kubectl set image deployment/mcp-server \
            mcp-server=${{ secrets.REGISTRY_URL }}/mcp-server:${{ github.sha }} \
            -n companions
          
          kubectl rollout status deployment/mcp-server -n companions
      
      - name: Run smoke tests
        run: |
          curl -f https://mcp.companions.example.com/health || exit 1
```

### Health Check Script

```typescript
// src/healthcheck.ts
import https from "https";

const options = {
  hostname: "localhost",
  port: 443,
  path: "/health",
  method: "GET",
  rejectUnauthorized: false, // For self-signed certs in container
};

const req = https.request(options, (res) => {
  if (res.statusCode === 200) {
    process.exit(0);
  } else {
    process.exit(1);
  }
});

req.on("error", () => {
  process.exit(1);
});

req.setTimeout(3000, () => {
  req.destroy();
  process.exit(1);
});

req.end();
```

## Performance Optimization

### Caching Strategy

```typescript
// src/caching/strategy.ts
import Redis from "ioredis";
import { LRUCache } from "lru-cache";

export class CacheManager {
  private redis: Redis;
  private localCache: LRUCache<string, any>;
  
  constructor() {
    this.redis = new Redis(process.env.REDIS_URL);
    this.localCache = new LRUCache({
      max: 1000,
      ttl: 1000 * 60 * 5, // 5 minutes
    });
  }
  
  async get(key: string): Promise<any | null> {
    // Check local cache first
    const local = this.localCache.get(key);
    if (local) return local;
    
    // Check Redis
    const cached = await this.redis.get(key);
    if (cached) {
      const value = JSON.parse(cached);
      this.localCache.set(key, value);
      return value;
    }
    
    return null;
  }
  
  async set(key: string, value: any, ttl = 3600): Promise<void> {
    const serialized = JSON.stringify(value);
    
    // Set in both caches
    this.localCache.set(key, value);
    await this.redis.setex(key, ttl, serialized);
  }
  
  async invalidate(pattern: string): Promise<void> {
    // Clear from Redis
    const keys = await this.redis.keys(pattern);
    if (keys.length > 0) {
      await this.redis.del(...keys);
    }
    
    // Clear from local cache
    for (const key of this.localCache.keys()) {
      if (key.match(pattern)) {
        this.localCache.delete(key);
      }
    }
  }
}
```

## Best Practices

1. **Use HTTPS everywhere** with proper certificates
2. **Implement comprehensive monitoring** and alerting
3. **Use container orchestration** for scaling and resilience
4. **Implement circuit breakers** for external services
5. **Use structured logging** for better observability
6. **Implement graceful shutdown** handling
7. **Use health checks** for automated recovery
8. **Implement request tracing** for debugging
9. **Use secrets management** services
10. **Regular security audits** and dependency updates

Always prioritize security, observability, and scalability when deploying production MCP servers.