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Prerequisites

This guide assumes you’ve been enabled for Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, and you’ve completed the steps to create an account and an organization as described in the account setup section.

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Installation

Install the TVC CLI in the Rust SDK to get started: 
git clone git@github.com:tkhq/rust-sdk.git
cd rust-sdk
cargo install --path tvc

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Create your first verifiable app

1

Login

With your new organization ID ready, login through the CLI.
tvc login
You will be asked to paste in your organization ID, and prompted to add a new generated API key to your organization.
This step generates an operator P256 keypair locally for you. It is stored in ~/.config/turnkey/orgs/<name>/operator.json. The public key will be used in the following steps.
2

Create a new TVC app

Visit the TVC dashboard and click on “Create app”.
Create app button on the TVC dashboard
A modal should appear:
Create app modal
Name your app something identifiable; for this demo it can be "TVC Hello World". Paste in your operator public key from the login step, then click “Create new TVC App” to create your app.
Create a local app template by running
tvc app init --output <my-app-template>.json
This step is purely local, and generates an editable json template for your app to be used during creation. Your template will look something like this when first generated:
{
  "name": "<FILL_IN_APP_NAME>",
  "quorumPublicKey": KNOWN_QUORUM_KEY,
  "externalConnectivity": false,
  "manifestSetId": null,
  "manifestSetParams": {
    "name": "<FILL_IN_MANIFEST_SET_NAME>",
    "threshold": 1,
    "newOperators": [
      {
        "name": "operator-1",
        "publicKey": PUBLIC_KEY_AUTOPOPULATED_FROM_LOGIN
      }
    ],
    "existingOperatorIds": []
  }
}
Name your app something identifiable; for this demo it can be "TVC Hello World". Your manifest set is currently just the public key generated during login; give it an easy to remember name, such as "TVC Manifest".
The CLI has also automatically populated this template with a known quorum key, which is sufficient for running verifiable code but not advised for encrypting sensitive data.
Create your app in TVC by running
tvc app create my-app-template.json
This creates your app, and saves its quorum key and manifest settings to the Turnkey Verifiable Cloud platform. Check out your new app on the TVC dashboard.
3

Create new TVC deployment

Once your app is created, click into it on the dashboard. Click on “Create deployment” to start a new deployment for your app.
Create deployment button
This should open a modal with all your deployment settings:
Deployment settings modal
If you do not have your own app, try our helloworld template:
  • Container Image URL 
    ghcr.io/tkhq/helloworld@sha256:f8132a6236609e4c67d9d29e5694989f18e528240844638e850897ee6319676d
  • Executable Path: /helloworld
  • Executable Args: leave blank
  • Executable bind address: 3000
  • Executable digest: same as the sha256 hash in the container URL 
    f8132a6236609e4c67d9d29e5694989f18e528240844638e850897ee6319676d
If you are bringing your own private container, TVC supports uploading pull secrets by encrypting them to a known public key. As a security measure, it also compares the executable digest to the pulled binary to ensure TVC is running the exact code you want.When ready, click “Deploy TVC App”!
Start with this local-only step, which generates a deployment template:
tvc deploy init
The generated JSON file is named by its time of creation, but you can name it anything by specifying a name after the --output flag. Open it and fill in each field:
  • appId is populated with the last app you created. You may edit it to be the id of any app you’ve created in the past.
  • qosVersion: use "v2026.2.6"
  • pivotContainerImageUrl: link to a public image. For this demo, feel free to use 
    "ghcr.io/tkhq/helloworld@sha256:f8132a6236609e4c67d9d29e5694989f18e528240844638e850897ee6319676d"
  • pivotPath: location of your binary in the container. Use "/helloworld" for the demo app.
  • pivotArgs: leave this empty unless you have arguments to pass to your application.
  • expectedPivotDigest: for the demo, use 
    "f8132a6236609e4c67d9d29e5694989f18e528240844638e850897ee6319676d"
    For an arbitrary app, compute the expected digest with 
    docker create --name tmp-extract <container URL> /bin/true \
  && docker cp tmp-extract:/path/to/binary ./binary \
  && docker rm tmp-extract

sha256sum ./binary
  • pivotContainerEncryptedPullSecret: if you don’t have a pull secret to the pivot container, delete this field.
Deploy to TVC by running
tvc deploy create deploy-YYYY-MM-DD.json [--pull-secret <path-to-pull-secret>.json]
Find the newly created deployment by clicking into your app on the TVC dashboard.
4

Approve deployment

By design, your deployment is not live yet. TVC requires approvals by the manifest set to fully deploy your application. Your app should be at the Approve stage on the dashboard:
Approve stage on the dashboard
For this demo app, your manifest set is the public key you created at login, so you may approve your deployment through the CLI:
tvc deploy approve \
  --deploy-id <DEPLOYMENT_UUID_FROM_CREATING_DEPLOYMENT>
This command generates an approval from the public keys created in step 1. If you didn’t change anything during the demo, that should be the only required approval from your manifest set. Your app is now live on Turnkey Verifiable Cloud!

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Next steps

Once the deployment is approved, your app can serve traffic and produce App Proofs, which are cryptographic signatures that prove TVC is running the correct, expected software on a legitimate AWS Nitro Enclave. Learn more about app proofs in our documentation. If you are not yet signed up for Turnkey Verifiable Cloud, join the waitlist here!