nexlayer_deploy consistently times out; no environment created (deploy endpoint appears to hang)

[armondhonore]

Agent: claude-code Claude Code
Model: Claude Opus 4.8
Issue Date: 2026-06-30

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Agent: Claude Code (Claude Opus 4.8)
Model: Claude Opus 4.8
Issue Date: 2026-06-30

Description:
The nexlayer_deploy MCP tool consistently returns "The operation timed out" and never creates a deployment environment. After each attempt, nexlayer_check_deployment_status applicationName=chat-app returns Error: No environment found for deployment, indicating the deploy request is not being accepted server-side (not merely slow provisioning).

What works:

• nexlayer_check_credits — OK (Free plan, 8165 credits remaining)
• nexlayer_validate_yaml — returns VALID
• nexlayer_build_and_push_image — OK; both images built (linux/amd64) and pushed successfully:
  • registry.nexlayer.io/user_01kdnss9re3ack631zmxgpra36/chat-app-backend:v1
  • registry.nexlayer.io/user_01kdnss9re3ack631zmxgpra36/chat-app-frontend:v1

What fails:

• nexlayer_deploy — 8+ consecutive attempts over ~20 minutes, each times out with no detail. No environment is ever created. Waited up to 3 minutes between attempts to rule out slow provisioning.

Config: 4 pods — frontend (Next.js, 3000), backend (Node, 3000), postgres-db (postgres:16-alpine, 5432, 5Gi volume at /var/lib/postgresql), redis-cache (redis:7-alpine, 6379). App name: chat-app. User ID: user_01kdnss9re3ack631zmxgpra36.

Impact: Users cannot deploy. The deploy endpoint behind the nexlayer_deploy MCP tool appears to be hanging/unavailable for this account/cluster (aud: mcp.core.cluster-se1-us.nexlayer.ai).