diff --git a/.github/workflows/go.yml b/.github/workflows/go.yml
index b987899..fb0320e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/go.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/go.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   build-and-push:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
     steps:
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
 
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ jobs:
     - name: Build
       run: make build
 
+    - name: what gblic?
+      run: ldd --version ldd
+
     - name: Test
       run: go test ./...
 
diff --git a/scripts/deploy.sh b/scripts/deploy.sh
index 95ec095..5ef07bd 100755
--- a/scripts/deploy.sh
+++ b/scripts/deploy.sh
@@ -5,15 +5,21 @@ set -e
 # Getting permissions errors on local when trying to push?  Run this:
 #   gcloud auth configure-docker us-central1-docker.pkg.dev
 
+
+# Run on initial instance creation:
+# > sudo apt-get update
+# > sudo apt-get install podman
+
 make webapp-linux
 
-docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 --build-arg BIN=bin/linux_amd64/webapp -t us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest .
+HOST_IP=$(gcloud compute --project ian-rose instances describe instance-1 --zone us-central1-a --format "get(networkInterfaces[0].accessConfigs.natIP)")
+
+#docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64 --build-arg BIN=bin/linux_amd64/webapp -t us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest .
 #docker build -t us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest .
-docker push us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest
+#docker push us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest
 
-ssh ianrose14@34.66.56.67 mkdir -p config/
-scp config/*  ianrose14@34.66.56.67:config/
-scp scripts/startup.sh ianrose14@34.66.56.67:
+gcloud compute --project ian-rose ssh ianrose14@instance-1 --zone us-central1-a -- mkdir -p config/
+gcloud compute --project ian-rose scp --zone us-central1-a config/* ianrose14@instance-1:config/
+gcloud compute --project ian-rose scp --zone us-central1-a scripts/startup.sh ianrose14@instance-1:
 
-#scp bin/linux_amd64/webapp ianrose14@34.66.56.67:
-ssh ianrose14@34.66.56.67 bash ./startup.sh
+ssh ianrose14@"${HOST_IP}" bash ./startup.sh
diff --git a/scripts/startup.sh b/scripts/startup.sh
index e11cdde..95bbe9b 100755
--- a/scripts/startup.sh
+++ b/scripts/startup.sh
@@ -5,7 +5,11 @@ set -e
 (podman stop webapp) || true
 (podman rm webapp) || true
 
-gcloud auth --quiet print-access-token | podman login -u oauth2accesstoken --password-stdin https://us-central1-docker.pkg.dev
+mkdir -p data
+
+# ref 1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63790529/authenticate-to-google-container-registry-with-podman
+# ref 2: https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/13691#issuecomment-1081913637
+gcloud auth --quiet print-access-token | podman login -u oauth2accesstoken --password-stdin us-central1-docker.pkg.dev
 podman pull us-central1-docker.pkg.dev/ian-rose/docker-1/webapp:latest
 podman run -d -p 8080:80 -p 8443:443 --restart=no \
     -v "$(pwd)/config":/root/config/ -v "$(pwd)/data":/root/data/ --name webapp \