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Every `docker compose up` was printing:
WARN volume "neuro-api_neuro-ollama-data" already exists but was
created for project "neuro-api" (expected "neuro-gateway"). Use
`external: true` to use an existing volume
That's exactly the situation we're in by design: the ollama volume is
owned by a NEIGHBORING compose stack (neuro-api or neuro-ollama,
depending on the host) and our gateway intentionally adopts it. The
warning fires because compose was managing the volume under our project
namespace even though the on-disk volume belongs to a different one.
Declaring `external: true` on `ollama_data` (and only that volume —
`postgres_data` stays compose-managed, since it belongs to this stack)
tells compose: "this volume is foreign, just attach it as-is, don't
namespace-check it." Warning gone, behavior identical.
Trade-off documented in the comment: `external: true` requires the
volume to exist before `up`. For fresh deployments where no foreign
Ollama volume exists, run `docker volume create <name>` first (or set
OLLAMA_DATA_VOLUME to a name you've already created).
neuronetz-gateway
A secure, multi-tenant API gateway in front of an Ollama instance. It is the hot path of the Neuronetz API: every request to the models flows through here, authenticated, rate-limited, budgeted, and audited.
The Ollama backend is never reachable from the public internet. It is bound to an internal Docker network with no published ports. All access is via this gateway, behind TLS terminated by Caddy.
Status: v0.1.0 — in development. See
scope-docs/SPEC.mdfor the full specification andscope-docs/AGENT_PROMPT.mdfor the phased build plan.SPEC.mdis the source of truth.
What it does
- Auth — API keys as Bearer tokens, stored as Argon2id hashes, verified in constant time.
- Multi-tenant — tenants own keys; limits and budgets inherit tenant → key.
- Rate limiting — per-key and per-tenant RPM / TPM / concurrent connections.
- Budgets — daily / monthly / total token budgets, enforced fail-closed.
- Dual API surface — native Ollama (
/api/*) and OpenAI-compatible (/v1/*), both streaming. - Hard-blocked mutations —
/api/pull,/api/push,/api/create,/api/copy,/api/delete,/api/blobs/*always return 403. Not configurable. - Audit log — always-on request metadata; opt-in, TTL'd prompt logging per key.
Administration (dashboards, tenant self-service) lives in a separate service,
neuronetz-console; it is not part of this repository.
Architecture
Internet ──TLS──> Caddy ──HTTP──> gateway ──┬──> Postgres (keys, budgets, audit)
├──> Redis (key cache, rate limits)
└──> Ollama (internal network only)
Quickstart (dev)
Requires Docker + Docker Compose. The dev stack runs Postgres, Redis, and the gateway —
no Caddy and no Ollama (so /readyz reports 503 until a real Ollama backend is wired
in; that is expected).
git clone <repo> neuronetz-gateway && cd neuronetz-gateway
cp .env.example .env # adjust if you like; defaults work for local dev
docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up --build
The gateway runs alembic upgrade head on startup, then serves on http://localhost:8080.
curl -i http://localhost:8080/healthz # -> 200 {"status":"ok"}
curl -i http://localhost:8080/readyz # -> 503 (no Ollama backend in the dev stack)
Production
docker-compose.yml brings up the full stack — Caddy (TLS via Let's Encrypt for
api.neuronetz.ai), the gateway, Postgres, Redis, and Ollama. The ollama service has
no ports: mapping and is reachable only on the internal Docker network. See
docs/DEPLOYMENT.md (added in a later phase) and
ops/caddy/Caddyfile.example.
Managing tenants and keys
Use the bootstrap CLI (Typer). Keys have the form nz_<prefix><secret>; the full key is
printed exactly once at creation and only its Argon2id hash is stored.
neuronetz-gateway create-tenant --name acme
neuronetz-gateway create-key --tenant acme --name prod-server-1
neuronetz-gateway list-keys --tenant acme
neuronetz-gateway revoke-key --prefix nz_abc12345
Development
just dev # run the dev stack
just test # pytest + coverage
just lint # ruff
just typecheck # mypy --strict
just migrate # alembic upgrade head
Tooling: Python 3.12, uv, FastAPI + uvicorn, SQLAlchemy 2.0 (async) + asyncpg, Redis,
httpx, structlog, Pydantic. Lint/type/security gates: ruff, mypy --strict, bandit,
pip-audit.
License
Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE. Owner: Stephan Berbig / Neuronetz.