Nitpicks.

deployment/deploy_vm.sh

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ if ! lxc list --format csv | grep -q "$LXD_VM_NAME"; then
 
     # create a base image if needed and instantiate a VM.
     if [ -z "$MAC_ADDRESS_TO_PROVISION" ]; then
-        echo "ERROR: You MUST define a MAC Address for all your machines by setting WWW_SERVER_MAC_ADDRESS, BTCPAYSERVER_MAC_ADDRESS in your site definition."
+        echo "ERROR: You MUST define a MAC Address for all your machines in your project definition."
         echo "INFO: IMPORTANT! You MUST have DHCP Reservations for these MAC addresses. You also need records established the DNS."
         exit 1
     fi

deployment/help.txt

@@ -6,11 +6,10 @@ You are in the Sovereign Stack Management Environment (SSME). From here, you can
     ss-up      - Instantiate a deployment to your active project according to your
                  various remote.conf, project.conf, and site.conf files.
     ss-down    - Reverses ss-up. Takes the active project down. Non-destructive of user data,
-                 unless you provide the --destroy flag.
+                 unless you provide the --purge flag.
     ss-update  - This is just ss-down then ss-up.
     ss-show    - show the lxd resources associated with the current remote.
 
 For more infomation about all these topics, consult the Sovereign Stack website starting with:
 
   - https://www.sovereign-stack.org/tag/deployment-management/
-

manage.sh

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 # https://www.sovereign-stack.org/ss-manage/
 
-set -exu
+set -eu
 cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
 # check to ensure dependencies are met.

management/bash_aliases

@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ alias ss-show='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/show.sh $@'
 alias ss-reset='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/reset.sh $@'
 alias ss-update='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/update.sh $@'
 alias ss-down='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/down.sh $@'
+alias ss-stop='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/stop.sh $@'
+alias ss-start='/home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/start.sh $@'
 alias ss-help='cat /home/ubuntu/sovereign-stack/deployment/help.txt'
 
 alias ll='ls -lah'

management/provision.sh

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ cd "$(dirname "$0")"
 
 # NOTE! This script MUST be executed as root.
 sudo apt-get update
-sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release
+sudo apt-get install -y ca-certificates curl gnupg lsb-release jq bc
 
 sudo mkdir -m 0755 -p /etc/apt/keyrings