diff --git a/.forgejo/workflows/rust.yaml b/.forgejo/workflows/rust.yaml
index 5202bba..b688c0f 100644
--- a/.forgejo/workflows/rust.yaml
+++ b/.forgejo/workflows/rust.yaml
@@ -24,6 +24,14 @@ jobs:
           xz --keep -9 release/$BIN_NAME-$VER
           shasum -a 256 release/$BIN_NAME-$VER > release/$BIN_NAME-$VER.sha256
           shasum -a 256 release/$BIN_NAME-$VER.xz > release/$BIN_NAME-$VER.xz.sha256
+      - name: Deb build
+        run: |
+          export BIN_NAME="api-id-assigner"
+          export VER=$(awk -F "=" '/version/ {print $2}' api/axum/Cargo.toml | grep -o -e '[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*')
+          cargo install cargo-deb
+          cargo deb -p $BIN_NAME
+          cp target/debian/${BIN_NAME}_${VER}-1_amd64.deb release/${BIN_NAME}_${VER}-1_amd64.deb
+          shasum -a 256 release/${BIN_NAME}_${VER}-1_amd64.deb > release/${BIN_NAME}_${VER}-1_amd64.deb.sha256
       - name: Upload release
         uses: actions/forgejo-release@v1
         with:
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f47ff68..e420ee4 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 target/*
-db.sqlite
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 1ff9738..5df0526 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "version_check",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "aho-corasick"
+version = "1.1.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b2969dcb958b36655471fc61f7e416fa76033bdd4bfed0678d8fee1e2d07a1f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "memchr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "allocator-api2"
 version = "0.2.16"
@@ -52,11 +61,12 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "api-id-assigner"
-version = "0.1.0"
+version = "0.1.1"
 dependencies = [
  "api-id-assigner-lib",
  "axum",
  "axum-extra",
+ "cargo-deb",
  "serde",
  "sqlx",
  "tokio",
@@ -86,6 +96,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "uuid",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ar"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d67af77d68a931ecd5cbd8a3b5987d63a1d1d1278f7f6a60ae33db485cdebb69"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-channel"
 version = "1.9.0"
@@ -379,6 +395,44 @@ version = "1.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "89b2fd2a0dcf38d7971e2194b6b6eebab45ae01067456a7fd93d5547a61b70be"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "cargo-deb"
+version = "2.0.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6bee9951db25fc703e40cc3abcba7ab11acda4d309b74804488e4601c7a5b5aa"
+dependencies = [
+ "ar",
+ "cargo_toml",
+ "crossbeam-channel",
+ "env_logger",
+ "flate2",
+ "getopts",
+ "glob",
+ "itertools 0.11.0",
+ "log",
+ "md5",
+ "quick-error",
+ "rayon",
+ "regex",
+ "serde",
+ "serde_json",
+ "tar",
+ "tempfile",
+ "toml",
+ "xz2",
+ "zopfli",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "cargo_toml"
+version = "0.16.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e3f9629bc6c4388ea699781dc988c2b99766d7679b151c81990b4fa1208fafd3"
+dependencies = [
+ "serde",
+ "toml",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.83"
@@ -465,6 +519,49 @@ version = "2.2.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "9cace84e55f07e7301bae1c519df89cdad8cc3cd868413d3fdbdeca9ff3db484"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "crc32fast"
+version = "1.3.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b540bd8bc810d3885c6ea91e2018302f68baba2129ab3e88f32389ee9370880d"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-channel"
+version = "0.5.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a33c2bf77f2df06183c3aa30d1e96c0695a313d4f9c453cc3762a6db39f99200"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-deque"
+version = "0.8.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ce6fd6f855243022dcecf8702fef0c297d4338e226845fe067f6341ad9fa0cef"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-epoch",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "crossbeam-epoch"
+version = "0.9.15"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "ae211234986c545741a7dc064309f67ee1e5ad243d0e48335adc0484d960bcc7"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+ "cfg-if",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+ "memoffset",
+ "scopeguard",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "crossbeam-queue"
 version = "0.3.8"
@@ -541,6 +638,19 @@ dependencies = [
  "serde",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "env_logger"
+version = "0.10.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "85cdab6a89accf66733ad5a1693a4dcced6aeff64602b634530dd73c1f3ee9f0"
+dependencies = [
+ "humantime",
+ "is-terminal",
+ "log",
+ "regex",
+ "termcolor",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "equivalent"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -600,6 +710,28 @@ version = "2.0.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "6999dc1837253364c2ebb0704ba97994bd874e8f195d665c50b7548f6ea92764"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "filetime"
+version = "0.2.22"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d4029edd3e734da6fe05b6cd7bd2960760a616bd2ddd0d59a0124746d6272af0"
+dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
+ "libc",
+ "redox_syscall",
+ "windows-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "flate2"
+version = "1.0.28"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "46303f565772937ffe1d394a4fac6f411c6013172fadde9dcdb1e147a086940e"
+dependencies = [
+ "crc32fast",
+ "miniz_oxide",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "flume"
 version = "0.10.14"
@@ -739,6 +871,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "version_check",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "getopts"
+version = "0.2.21"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "14dbbfd5c71d70241ecf9e6f13737f7b5ce823821063188d7e46c41d371eebd5"
+dependencies = [
+ "unicode-width",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "getrandom"
 version = "0.2.10"
@@ -758,6 +899,12 @@ version = "0.27.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "b6c80984affa11d98d1b88b66ac8853f143217b399d3c74116778ff8fdb4ed2e"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "glob"
+version = "0.3.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d2fabcfbdc87f4758337ca535fb41a6d701b65693ce38287d856d1674551ec9b"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "gloo-timers"
 version = "0.2.6"
@@ -877,6 +1024,12 @@ version = "1.0.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "df3b46402a9d5adb4c86a0cf463f42e19994e3ee891101b1841f30a545cb49a9"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "humantime"
+version = "2.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9a3a5bfb195931eeb336b2a7b4d761daec841b97f947d34394601737a7bba5e4"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "hyper"
 version = "0.14.27"
@@ -963,6 +1116,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "is-terminal"
+version = "0.4.9"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cb0889898416213fab133e1d33a0e5858a48177452750691bde3666d0fdbaf8b"
+dependencies = [
+ "hermit-abi",
+ "rustix 0.38.8",
+ "windows-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itertools"
 version = "0.10.5"
@@ -972,6 +1136,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "either",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itertools"
+version = "0.11.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b1c173a5686ce8bfa551b3563d0c2170bf24ca44da99c7ca4bfdab5418c3fe57"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.9"
@@ -1059,6 +1232,17 @@ dependencies = [
  "value-bag",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "lzma-sys"
+version = "0.1.20"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5fda04ab3764e6cde78b9974eec4f779acaba7c4e84b36eca3cf77c581b85d27"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "matchit"
 version = "0.7.2"
@@ -1075,10 +1259,25 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [[package]]
-name = "memchr"
-version = "2.5.0"
+name = "md5"
+version = "0.7.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2dffe52ecf27772e601905b7522cb4ef790d2cc203488bbd0e2fe85fcb74566d"
+checksum = "490cc448043f947bae3cbee9c203358d62dbee0db12107a74be5c30ccfd09771"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "memchr"
+version = "2.6.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f665ee40bc4a3c5590afb1e9677db74a508659dfd71e126420da8274909a0167"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "memoffset"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5a634b1c61a95585bd15607c6ab0c4e5b226e695ff2800ba0cdccddf208c406c"
+dependencies = [
+ "autocfg",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "mime"
@@ -1407,6 +1606,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "unicode-ident",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "quick-error"
+version = "2.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a993555f31e5a609f617c12db6250dedcac1b0a85076912c436e6fc9b2c8e6a3"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "quote"
 version = "1.0.33"
@@ -1446,6 +1651,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "getrandom",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rayon"
+version = "1.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "9c27db03db7734835b3f53954b534c91069375ce6ccaa2e065441e07d9b6cdb1"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "rayon-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rayon-core"
+version = "1.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5ce3fb6ad83f861aac485e76e1985cd109d9a3713802152be56c3b1f0e0658ed"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-deque",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_syscall"
 version = "0.3.5"
@@ -1455,6 +1680,35 @@ dependencies = [
  "bitflags 1.3.2",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "regex"
+version = "1.10.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "380b951a9c5e80ddfd6136919eef32310721aa4aacd4889a8d39124b026ab343"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-automata",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-automata"
+version = "0.4.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5f804c7828047e88b2d32e2d7fe5a105da8ee3264f01902f796c8e067dc2483f"
+dependencies = [
+ "aho-corasick",
+ "memchr",
+ "regex-syntax",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "regex-syntax"
+version = "0.8.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "c08c74e62047bb2de4ff487b251e4a92e24f48745648451635cec7d591162d9f"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "rsa"
 version = "0.9.2"
@@ -1582,9 +1836,9 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "serde_json"
-version = "1.0.105"
+version = "1.0.107"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "693151e1ac27563d6dbcec9dee9fbd5da8539b20fa14ad3752b2e6d363ace360"
+checksum = "6b420ce6e3d8bd882e9b243c6eed35dbc9a6110c9769e74b584e0d68d1f20c65"
 dependencies = [
  "itoa",
  "ryu",
@@ -1673,6 +1927,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand_core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "simd-adler32"
+version = "0.3.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d66dc143e6b11c1eddc06d5c423cfc97062865baf299914ab64caa38182078fe"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "slab"
 version = "0.4.9"
@@ -1739,7 +1999,7 @@ version = "0.2.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "0c12bc9199d1db8234678b7051747c07f517cdcf019262d1847b94ec8b1aee3e"
 dependencies = [
- "itertools",
+ "itertools 0.10.5",
  "nom",
  "unicode_categories",
 ]
@@ -1992,6 +2252,17 @@ version = "0.1.2"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2047c6ded9c721764247e62cd3b03c09ffc529b2ba5b10ec482ae507a4a70160"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "tar"
+version = "0.4.40"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b16afcea1f22891c49a00c751c7b63b2233284064f11a200fc624137c51e2ddb"
+dependencies = [
+ "filetime",
+ "libc",
+ "xattr",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "tempfile"
 version = "3.8.0"
@@ -2005,6 +2276,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "windows-sys",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "1.3.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6093bad37da69aab9d123a8091e4be0aa4a03e4d601ec641c327398315f62b64"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi-util",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "thiserror"
 version = "1.0.47"
@@ -2248,6 +2528,12 @@ version = "0.2.4"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "3528ecfd12c466c6f163363caf2d02a71161dd5e1cc6ae7b34207ea2d42d81ed"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "typed-arena"
+version = "2.0.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "6af6ae20167a9ece4bcb41af5b80f8a1f1df981f6391189ce00fd257af04126a"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "typenum"
 version = "1.16.0"
@@ -2290,6 +2576,12 @@ version = "1.10.1"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "1dd624098567895118886609431a7c3b8f516e41d30e0643f03d94592a147e36"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "unicode-width"
+version = "0.1.11"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "e51733f11c9c4f72aa0c160008246859e340b00807569a0da0e7a1079b27ba85"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "unicode_categories"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -2461,6 +2753,15 @@ version = "0.4.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ac3b87c63620426dd9b991e5ce0329eff545bccbbb34f3be09ff6fb6ab51b7b6"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "winapi-util"
+version = "0.1.6"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f29e6f9198ba0d26b4c9f07dbe6f9ed633e1f3d5b8b414090084349e46a52596"
+dependencies = [
+ "winapi",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "winapi-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu"
 version = "0.4.0"
@@ -2551,8 +2852,38 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "xattr"
+version = "1.0.1"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "f4686009f71ff3e5c4dbcf1a282d0a44db3f021ba69350cd42086b3e5f1c6985"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "xz2"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "388c44dc09d76f1536602ead6d325eb532f5c122f17782bd57fb47baeeb767e2"
+dependencies = [
+ "lzma-sys",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "zeroize"
 version = "1.6.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2a0956f1ba7c7909bfb66c2e9e4124ab6f6482560f6628b5aaeba39207c9aad9"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zopfli"
+version = "0.8.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c1f48f3508a3a3f2faee01629564400bc12260f6214a056d06a3aaaa6ef0736"
+dependencies = [
+ "crc32fast",
+ "log",
+ "simd-adler32",
+ "typed-arena",
+]
diff --git a/api/axum/Cargo.toml b/api/axum/Cargo.toml
index c590778..03c7bb4 100644
--- a/api/axum/Cargo.toml
+++ b/api/axum/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,9 +1,17 @@
 [package]
+authors = ["Technoduck"]
 name = "api-id-assigner"
 description = "Axum powered API to manage ids for hostnames of a sulrm cluster"
 version = "0.1.0"
 edition = "2021"
 
+[package.metadata.deb]
+assets = [
+["target/release/api-id-assigner", "/usr/bin/", "755"],
+["config.toml","/var/assigner/", "644"],
+["db.sqlite","/var/assigner/", "644"],
+]
+
 [dependencies]
 api-id-assigner-lib = { path = "../lib" }
 axum = "0.6.18"
@@ -15,3 +23,6 @@ toml = "0.8.0"
 tower = "0.4.13"
 tower-http = { version = "0.4.3", features = ["fs","cors"] }
 tracing = "0.1.37"
+
+[build-dependencies]
+cargo-deb = "2.0.0"
diff --git a/api/axum/config.toml b/api/axum/config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3387190
--- /dev/null
+++ b/api/axum/config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+ip = '0.0.0.0'
+port = 2000
+db_location = '/var/assigner/db.sqlite'
diff --git a/api/axum/db.sqlite b/api/axum/db.sqlite
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b57628e
Binary files /dev/null and b/api/axum/db.sqlite differ
diff --git a/api/axum/src/main.rs b/api/axum/src/main.rs
index d4ec87a..8eb34af 100644
--- a/api/axum/src/main.rs
+++ b/api/axum/src/main.rs
@@ -22,25 +22,25 @@ async fn main() -> Result<(), sqlx::Error>{
 
 
 
-    if !cfg!(debug_assertions){
-        //check if running in production or debug env.
-        if !std::path::Path::new("/var/assigner").exists() {
-            println!("in release creating folder");
-            match fs::create_dir_all("/var/assigner") {
-                Ok(_res) => println!("Directory created succesfully"),
-                Err(err) => panic!("cannot create dir {err}")
-            }
+   // if !cfg!(debug_assertions){
+   //     //check if running in production or debug env.
+   //     if !std::path::Path::new("/var/assigner").exists() {
+   //         println!("in release creating folder");
+   //         match fs::create_dir_all("/var/assigner") {
+   //             Ok(_res) => println!("Directory created succesfully"),
+   //             Err(err) => panic!("cannot create dir {err}")
+   //         }
 
-        } 
-        //check if config file exists, if not, write default values in it
-        if !std::path::Path::new("/var/assigner/config.toml").exists() {
-            println!("config file doesnt exist");
-            let _ = match fs::write(Path::new("/var/assigner/config.toml"), b"ip = '0.0.0.0'\nport = 2000\ndb_location = '/var/assigner/db.sqlite'"){
-                Ok(res) => res,
-                Err(err) => panic!("error: {err}")
-            };
-        }
-    }
+   //     } 
+   //     //check if config file exists, if not, write default values in it
+   //     if !std::path::Path::new("/var/assigner/config.toml").exists() {
+   //         println!("config file doesnt exist");
+   //         let _ = match fs::write(Path::new("/var/assigner/config.toml"), b"ip = '0.0.0.0'\nport = 2000\ndb_location = '/var/assigner/db.sqlite'"){
+   //             Ok(res) => res,
+   //             Err(err) => panic!("error: {err}")
+   //         };
+   //     }
+   // }
 
     // read the toml config file into a string, if file not found give default values
     let config_string = match fs::read_to_string("/var/assigner/config.toml") {