Re-runs the capstone from main after the dry-run fixes merged.
fail2ban: added to the novox set. The capability fix (intrusion-prevention ->
firewall) makes it HOSTABLE — it is now assigned, not refused — which is the
gate. Its service reaching active is a host concern the offline lab cannot meet
(the VM ships nftables but not fail2ban, and the isolated segment has no route to
the package mirror, so pacman cannot fetch it), so fail2ban joins GAPS_NOVOX: its
failed package resource is tolerated like firewall's oneshot nftables.service.
7 credential sidecars: before the push, a FAKE app credential is delivered for
each (plex/bazarr/ombi/home-assistant/nzbget/qbittorrent on ace, umami on novox)
through the real operator path — `secret accept <node> <module> <name> --from`.
The bed asserts each sidecar advances PAST its old "no credential" crash (it reads
the delivered value); app-auth failure against the real app with a bogus value is
expected and not gated.
Result: SUITE_EXIT=0. Both node-plans converge on one substrate (novox 13/13
core, ace 17/17 core), fail2ban hostable, all 7 sidecars past their crash.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
Combine the novox (17-module) and ace (24-module) sets on ONE substrate and
prove both node-plans converge together. anchor runs the substrate only;
novox and ace each run their own self-contained set (own postgres/redis), so
nothing crosses a node boundary except enrolment and the shared broker/store.
The four modules both nodes run (postgres, redis, mssql, portainer) are added
once and assigned to each node, each getting its own per-node broker account.
An overlay is placed across all three nodes.
Proven green: both nodes converge together on the one substrate. ace reaches
applied+current with all 17 of its CORE up (and letta too this run); novox
reaches all 13 CORE up with its only failed resource the known firewall.load
oneshot gap. The two node-plans share one broker without collision — distinct
novox-<mod> and ace-<mod> accounts for the modules both run. No new cross-node
bug (overlay/DNS/identity/port) surfaced; ports are per-VM and the sets are
node-self-contained. Tolerates the same nine credential-sidecar gaps and
firewall's nftables.service oneshot documented in the per-server beds.
Resource envelope: 3 VMs (anchor 4GiB, novox 16GiB, ace 18GiB) + registry
scenery, ~79 union images (~35GB) stocked to one registry VM and pulled
concurrently by both nodes; fit within 125GiB host RAM and the 180GiB lab pool.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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