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The conversion method, recorded because it decides everything else and was not written down. The old control plane is stopped — provisioning, coordinator, syncs, the pipeline, anything that decides or writes. The workloads it was managing keep running, because nothing is managing them. The new mesh then takes ownership one module at a time. Nothing is ever unassigned in the old system. Unassigning is how it removes things and removing is how data is lost; it is asked to stop having opinions, never to take anything away. Disabled rather than merely stopped, which is the part easy to get wrong: those units are enabled, so a stop lasts until the next reboot. A reboot mid-conversion would bring the old control plane back to regenerate managed files underneath the new one — the one situation where two systems really would fight over a machine. A service left running with nothing managing it is the safe state: it has its data, its configuration is on disk, and nothing will change either. The risk in a conversion is in the managing, not the running. Also records why taking ownership piecemeal is safe: the new host's orphan removal is per-origin, so it only removes what it recorded itself. Services it was never told about are not orphans to it.
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 modules move across one at a time, until the old registry can be switched off | ADR 0001, ADR 0016 |
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 |
11-a-board.md |
What a person sees of the mesh, and why it is read from what runs | ADR 0008, ADR 0001 |
12-a-module-repository.md |
A module repository, and what builds it | ADR 0009, ADR 0010, ADR 0005 |
13-credentials-and-their-rotation.md |
Credentials, and moving them without a consumer holding one the provider does not know about | ADR 0001, ADR 0009 |
14-model-access.md |
Model access as a provision, and what a licence is bound to | ADR 0024, ADR 0009 |
15-the-agent-session.md |
One mechanism started twice — a node's session and the mesh's | ADR 0004, ADR 0026 |
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.