First end-to-end raise. A machine with a container runtime applied the bundle its host carries and ended with a store, databases, schemas, a broker holding a certificate it generated itself, and the control plane serving. Then it took a token, checked the broker against the pinned fingerprint, generated three keypairs and enrolled — the first node being a node whose mesh is not up yet, observed rather than argued. And a credential crossed. Declared the provider of a database for a second node and pushed to over the broker, the machine ended with the password in one file at mode 0600, and that password appears nowhere in the declaration that crossed the broker, nowhere in the control plane's database, and nowhere in what the node reported back. That is the whole secrets argument, measured. One fault, in the joining: the token did not say what the mesh calls the machine, so enrolment needed a flag its own help said it did not, and failed at the broker with an empty username. It is the fifth thing a token carries now — the node cannot work its own name out, because the broker account it authenticates as is named after it and exists before the mesh has told it anything.
03-DESIGN / 01-to-be
The mesh being built toward. Every statement here traces to a record in
02-DECISIONS/; nothing arrives by drafting.
A document here describes an intention. What currently runs is in
00-as-is/, and the two are never merged — when something ships, the as-is
document is written and this one's status becomes implemented.
| Document | Covers | Rests on |
|---|---|---|
00-work-breakdown.md |
How the decomposition gets built, in what order, and where a human must look | ADR 0001 |
01-end-to-end-testing.md |
The lab: a real mesh a change can be run against before it reaches nodes | ADR 0016, 0029 |
02-scenario-declaration.md |
What a scenario declares — the underlay, and what to place on it | ADR 0016 |
03-scenario-lifecycle.md |
What happens to a scenario — raise, snapshot, restore, move, destroy | ADR 0016 |
04-lab-installation.md |
Getting the lab onto a clean machine, and why it verifies capability rather than installation | ADR 0010 |
05-the-node-host.md |
Tier 0 — the one thing installed by hand, and the only thing that changes a machine | ADR 0005 |
06-the-control-plane.md |
Tier 2 — what the term means, and the test for what belongs in it | ADR 0005 |
07-the-substrate.md |
Tier 1 — what the control plane consumes and cannot grant itself | ADR 0004, 0048 |
08-connectivity.md |
One context in full — overlay, resolution, exposure, filtering, certificates | ADR 0007, 0050, 0051, 0055 |
09-the-node-lifecycle.md |
How a machine becomes a node, stays one, and stops being one | ADR 0004, 0051 |
10-delivery.md |
Modules, the three edges, and how a change becomes a running thing | ADR 0010, 0064, 0065 |
Not yet written
- The remaining six contexts.
ADR 0006
settles the list at seven;
connectivityis the first written in full (08) and the other six do not exist yet. The work breakdown says in what order they are needed. Domain grouping outside the core.Not needed. ADR 0009 is superseded by ADR 0009: there is no domain module to group into, so there is no domain list to settle. Relationships are edges, and grouping is a tag and a query.