Issue 067 — fold in the embedded-vs-provisioned axis
Naming which provider is only half of how a module gets a database. The other half: a module may carry its own version/fork-pinned instance, module-network only, no published port, not a provision — and the model has no word for it. Add it as a second axis with its own open questions. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01D6qtiYU3P9jk3pnAXyAFyx
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Modelled as mesh-scoped, that topology is expressible only by accident. To carry
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it deliberately the provision must be able to name its provider.
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## A second axis: provisioned against a provider, or embedded and private
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Naming *which* provider is only half of "how a module gets a database". There is a
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second, distinct case the model also cannot express: a module that does **not**
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consume a shared provider at all, but carries its **own** instance inside its own
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composition — on its own module network, publishing no host port, visible to
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nothing else in the mesh. This is legitimate and sometimes necessary: some
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containers pin a database *server* version or need a fork or extension set (a
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customised postgres, a vector extension) that the node's shared provider does not
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offer, so they must run their own alongside the main container.
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The distinction that matters:
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- **Provisioned** — the module requires a provision and is bound to a *named
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node-scoped provider* (the first axis above). This should be the default; on the
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mesh being migrated onto, most per-module databases are vanilla servers on old
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version pins that could simply be consolidated onto the node's shared provider.
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- **Embedded and private** — the module ships its own instance because a fork or
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version genuinely forces it. Its credential is still a mesh-generated secret, not
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a module-authored password; but the *instance* is module-internal — same module
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network only, no published port, **not registered as a provision**, so nothing
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else can bind to it and it cannot collide on a well-known port.
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The model has no word for the second case. A module that carries a private instance
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looks, to the mesh, either like nothing (an undeclared container) or like a provider
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it must not be treated as. "Embed only when a fork or version forces it; otherwise
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provision against the node's provider" is the rule the design should be able to
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state and check — and the invisibility of an embedded instance (own network, no host
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port, not a provision) should be an enforceable property, not a convention.
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## Open questions
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- Where does the provider name live — on the provision definition (`scope: "node"`
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- Does this interact with secret rotation (the issue-scope of `rotate`) — must
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rotation address a specific provider's credential holders rather than "the
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provision's"?
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- When a module carries an **embedded, private** instance rather than consuming a
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provider, how is that declared so the mesh knows it is module-internal — not a
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provision, not published, not bindable by anything else — and can enforce it?
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- What decides embed-vs-provision — is it the module's declaration alone, or may an
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operator override at assignment (consolidate this one onto the node's provider)?
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