diff --git a/docker/api/bootstrap-data.js b/docker/api/bootstrap-data.js
index c4073638..4478472d 100644
--- a/docker/api/bootstrap-data.js
+++ b/docker/api/bootstrap-data.js
@@ -83,51 +83,57 @@ const bootstrap = function ({ docker, rethink }, cb) {
         return cb();
       }
 
-      data.createDatacenter({ region, name: region }, (err, datacenter) => {
+      data.createDatacenter({
+        region,
+        name: region
+      }, (err, datacenter) => {
         if (err) {
           return cb(err);
         }
 
-        Triton.createClient(
-          {
-            profile: settings.triton
-          },
-          (err, { cloudapi }) => {
+        Triton.createClient({
+          profile: settings.triton
+        }, (err, { cloudapi }) => {
+          if (err) {
+            return cb(err);
+          }
+
+          cloudapi.getAccount((err, {
+            id,
+            firstName,
+            lastName,
+            email,
+            login
+          }) => {
             if (err) {
               return cb(err);
             }
 
-            cloudapi.getAccount((err, { firstName, lastName, email, login }) => {
+            data.createUser({
+              tritonId: id,
+              firstName,
+              lastName,
+              email,
+              login
+            }, (err, user) => {
               if (err) {
                 return cb(err);
               }
 
-              data.createUser(
-                { firstName, lastName, email, login },
-                (err, user) => {
-                  if (err) {
-                    return cb(err);
-                  }
-
-                  data.createPortal(
-                    {
-                      user,
-                      datacenter
-                    },
-                    (err, portal) => {
-                      if (err) {
-                        return cb(err);
-                      }
-
-                      console.log('data bootstrapped');
-                      cb();
-                    }
-                  );
+              data.createPortal({
+                user,
+                datacenter
+              }, (err, portal) => {
+                if (err) {
+                  return cb(err);
                 }
-              );
+
+                console.log('data bootstrapped');
+                cb();
+              });
             });
-          }
-        );
+          });
+        });
       });
     });
   });
diff --git a/packages/cp-frontend/package.json b/packages/cp-frontend/package.json
index fb535635..74b01c09 100644
--- a/packages/cp-frontend/package.json
+++ b/packages/cp-frontend/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "joyent-cp-frontend",
-  "version": "1.3.2",
+  "version": "1.4.0",
   "license": "MPL-2.0",
   "repository": "github:yldio/joyent-portal",
   "main": "build/",
diff --git a/packages/cp-frontend/src/containers/manifest/edit-or-create.js b/packages/cp-frontend/src/containers/manifest/edit-or-create.js
index 13883f8c..d034666b 100644
--- a/packages/cp-frontend/src/containers/manifest/edit-or-create.js
+++ b/packages/cp-frontend/src/containers/manifest/edit-or-create.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { withRouter } from 'react-router';
 import { Redirect } from 'react-router-dom';
 import intercept from 'apr-intercept';
 import paramCase from 'param-case';
+import get from 'lodash.get';
 import remove from 'lodash.remove';
 import flatten from 'lodash.flatten';
 import uniq from 'lodash.uniq';
@@ -17,12 +18,15 @@ import DeploymentGroupBySlugQuery from '@graphql/DeploymentGroupBySlug.gql';
 import DeploymentGroupCreateMutation from '@graphql/DeploymentGroupCreate.gql';
 import DeploymentGroupProvisionMutation from '@graphql/DeploymentGroupProvision.gql';
 import DeploymentGroupConfigQuery from '@graphql/DeploymentGroupConfig.gql';
+import PortalQuery from '@graphql/Portal.gql';
 
 import { client } from '@state/store';
 import { ErrorMessage } from '@components/messaging';
 import { Environment, Name, Review, Manifest } from '@components/manifest';
 
 const INTERPOLATE_REGEX = /\$([_a-z][_a-z0-9]*)/gi;
+const CNS_PRIVATE = 'TRITON_CNS_SEARCH_DOMAIN_PRIVATE';
+const CNS_PUBLIC = 'TRITON_CNS_SEARCH_DOMAIN_PUBLIC';
 
 // TODO: move state to redux. why: because in redux we can cache transactional
 // state between refreshes
@@ -166,15 +170,22 @@ class DeploymentGroupEditOrCreate extends Component {
       return environment;
     }
 
-    const names = forceArray(manifest.match(INTERPOLATE_REGEX)).map(name =>
-      name.replace(/^\$/, '')
-    );
+    const searchDomain = [
+      `${CNS_PRIVATE}=${this.props.tritonId}.${this.props
+        .dataCenter}.cns.joyent.com`,
+      `${CNS_PUBLIC}=${this.props.tritonId}.${this.props
+        .dataCenter}.triton.zone`
+    ].join('\n');
+
+    const names = forceArray(manifest.match(INTERPOLATE_REGEX))
+      .map(name => name.replace(/^\$/, ''))
+      .filter(name => [CNS_PRIVATE, CNS_PUBLIC].indexOf(name) < 0);
 
     const vars = uniq(names)
       .map(name => `\n${name}=`)
       .join('');
 
-    return `# define your interpolatable variables here\n${vars}`;
+    return `${searchDomain}\n\n# define your interpolatable variables here\n${vars}`;
   }
 
   getDefaultFile(name = '') {
@@ -317,7 +328,10 @@ class DeploymentGroupEditOrCreate extends Component {
     };
 
     this.setState(
-      { environment: environment || this.props.environment, loading: true },
+      {
+        environment: environment || this.getEnvironmentDefaultValue(),
+        loading: true
+      },
       getConfig
     );
   }
@@ -480,6 +494,12 @@ class DeploymentGroupEditOrCreate extends Component {
 }
 
 export default compose(
+  graphql(PortalQuery, {
+    props: ({ data: { portal = {} } }) => ({
+      dataCenter: get(portal, 'datacenter.region', ''),
+      tritonId: get(portal, 'user.tritonId', '')
+    })
+  }),
   graphql(DeploymentGroupCreateMutation, {
     props: ({ mutate }) => ({
       createDeploymentGroup: variables => mutate({ variables })
diff --git a/packages/cp-frontend/src/graphql/Portal.gql b/packages/cp-frontend/src/graphql/Portal.gql
index ceeb4497..f734864a 100644
--- a/packages/cp-frontend/src/graphql/Portal.gql
+++ b/packages/cp-frontend/src/graphql/Portal.gql
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ query Portal {
   portal {
     user {
       firstName
+      tritonId
     }
     datacenter {
       id
diff --git a/packages/cp-gql-schema/schema.gql b/packages/cp-gql-schema/schema.gql
index b307e7bc..4377fc62 100644
--- a/packages/cp-gql-schema/schema.gql
+++ b/packages/cp-gql-schema/schema.gql
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ type Portal {
 
 type User {
   id: ID!
+  tritonId: ID!
   firstName: String!
   lastName: String!
   email: String!
diff --git a/packages/portal-api/bootstrap-data.js b/packages/portal-api/bootstrap-data.js
index de06d4fe..7fa1d3c9 100644
--- a/packages/portal-api/bootstrap-data.js
+++ b/packages/portal-api/bootstrap-data.js
@@ -49,36 +49,77 @@ const ifError = function (err) {
     console.error(err);
     process.exit(1);
   }
+
+  process.exit(0);
 };
 
-const bootstrap = function () {
+const bootstrap = function (cb) {
   const data = new Data(settings);
   const region = process.env.TRITON_DC || 'us-sw-1';
 
   data.connect((err) => {
-    ifError(err);
+    if (err) {
+      return cb(err);
+    }
 
-    data.createDatacenter({ region, name: region }, (err, datacenter) => {
-      ifError(err);
+    data.getDatacenters((err, datacenters) => {
+      if (err) {
+        return cb(err);
+      }
 
-      Triton.createClient({
-        profile: settings.triton
-      }, (err, { cloudapi }) => {
-        ifError(err);
+      // Don't continue since data is already bootstrapped
+      if (datacenters && datacenters.length) {
+        return cb();
+      }
 
-        cloudapi.getAccount((err, { firstName, lastName, email, login }) => {
-          ifError(err);
+      data.createDatacenter({
+        region,
+        name: region
+      }, (err, datacenter) => {
+        if (err) {
+          return cb(err);
+        }
 
-          data.createUser({ firstName, lastName, email, login }, (err, user) => {
-            ifError(err);
+        Triton.createClient({
+          profile: settings.triton
+        }, (err, { cloudapi }) => {
+          if (err) {
+            return cb(err);
+          }
 
-            data.createPortal({
-              user,
-              datacenter
-            }, (err, portal) => {
-              ifError(err);
-              console.log('data bootstrapped');
-              process.exit(0);
+          cloudapi.getAccount((err, {
+            id,
+            firstName,
+            lastName,
+            email,
+            login
+          }) => {
+            if (err) {
+              return cb(err);
+            }
+
+            data.createUser({
+              tritonId: id,
+              firstName,
+              lastName,
+              email,
+              login
+            }, (err, user) => {
+              if (err) {
+                return cb(err);
+              }
+
+              data.createPortal({
+                user,
+                datacenter
+              }, (err, portal) => {
+                if (err) {
+                  return cb(err);
+                }
+
+                console.log('data bootstrapped');
+                cb();
+              });
             });
           });
         });
@@ -87,4 +128,4 @@ const bootstrap = function () {
   });
 };
 
-bootstrap();
+bootstrap(ifError);
diff --git a/packages/portal-api/lib/data/transform.js b/packages/portal-api/lib/data/transform.js
index a8704237..5aecbec3 100644
--- a/packages/portal-api/lib/data/transform.js
+++ b/packages/portal-api/lib/data/transform.js
@@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ exports.toInstance = function (clientInstance) {
 exports.fromUser = function (user) {
   return {
     id: user.id,
+    tritonId: user.tritonId,
     firstName: user.first_name,
     lastName: user.last_name,
     email: user.email,
@@ -211,6 +212,7 @@ exports.fromUser = function (user) {
 exports.toUser = function (clientUser) {
   return {
     id: clientUser.id,
+    tritonId: clientUser.tritonId,
     first_name: clientUser.firstName,
     last_name: clientUser.lastName,
     email: clientUser.email,
diff --git a/packages/portal-api/server.js b/packages/portal-api/server.js
index 0b1861da..13900383 100644
--- a/packages/portal-api/server.js
+++ b/packages/portal-api/server.js
@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ const goodOptions = {
     consoleReporter: [{
       module: 'good-squeeze',
       name: 'Squeeze',
-      args: [{ log: '*', response: '*', error: '*' }]
+      args: [{
+        log: '*',
+        response: '*',
+        error: '*'
+      }]
     }, {
       module: 'good-console'
     }, 'stdout']
@@ -39,17 +43,18 @@ server.register([
   },
   {
     register: Toppsy,
-    options: { namespace: 'portal', subsystem: 'api' }
+    options: {
+      namespace: 'portal',
+      subsystem: 'api'
+    }
   }
-],
-(err) => {
+], (err) => {
   handlerError(err);
   server.start((err) => {
     handlerError(err);
     console.log(`server started at http://localhost:${server.info.port}`);
   });
-}
-);
+});
 
 function handlerError (error) {
   if (error) {