---
id: NK-WP-0009
type: workplan
title: NetKingdom Security Pattern Tutorials
domain: infotech
repo: net-kingdom
status: backlog
owner: codex
topic_slug: netkingdom
planning_priority: medium
planning_order: 9
created: 2026-05-17
updated: 2026-07-08
depends_on:
  - NK-WP-0008
state_hub_workstream_id: "d4d02dbf-3974-502d-8b87-b776fc63e17e"
---

# NK-WP-0009 - NetKingdom Security Pattern Tutorials

## Goal

Build practical tutorials that show operators and developers how to
implement canonical NetKingdom security architecture patterns in
NetKingdom-enabled IT infrastructures.

Where NK-WP-0008 is the pattern library, this workplan is the hands-on
path: runnable examples, checklists, commands, manifests, verification
steps, and failure-mode exercises.

## Context

The platform needs more than architecture statements. A new deployment
should be able to answer:

- How do I issue identity tokens in lightweight mode versus expanded
  mode?
- How do I ask flex-auth for a resource decision?
- How do I vend temporary object-storage credentials?
- How do I deploy OpenBao and avoid secret zero traps?
- How do I use short-lived SSH certificates for agents and automations?
- How do I verify audit records and break-glass behavior?

Tutorials turn canonical patterns into repeatable implementation
practice without forcing every application repo to rediscover the same
steps.

## Scope

In scope:

- tutorial structure and style guide
- runnable or copy-pasteable examples
- local/dev and production variants where appropriate
- verification and rollback steps
- integration references to key-cape, flex-auth, ops-warden,
  ops-bridge, railiance-platform, and artifact-store

Out of scope:

- deploying live services directly from this repo
- replacing repo-specific operator runbooks
- hiding provider-specific security differences behind one generic
  command

## Tasks

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T01
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "3c6824a0-39e6-51f5-b46f-5861a9375439"
```

Create a tutorial template with prerequisites, architecture context,
commands, manifests, verification, rollback, threat checks, and
cross-repo ownership notes.

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T02
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "d13760fd-2527-5a39-acb1-11c8091d65a1"
```

Write the first tutorial: "Vend temporary S3 credentials from a
NetKingdom identity token", covering key-cape/Keycloak identity,
flex-auth authorization, object-store STS exchange, and SDK consumer
configuration.

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T03
status: todo
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "16cf51a4-0763-59e9-9b4c-d486f5bde908"
```

Write "Deploy OpenBao as the canonical secrets manager for a
NetKingdom-enabled Railiance platform", linking to the Railiance
Platform workplan and covering auth methods, secret engines, CSI/ESO
integration, leases, unseal, backup, and break-glass.

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T04
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "1d28e3f1-fb39-5d0e-a7ee-ce2e9bc16ed5"
```

Write "Use short-lived SSH credentials for admins, agents, and
automations", using ops-warden and ops-bridge as the reference
implementation.

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T05
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "c380ef19-4bc2-5ade-b127-baf18c64bf35"
```

Write "Add a protected system to flex-auth", covering resource
manifests, action vocabulary, claim envelopes, policy packages,
decision envelopes, and delegated PDP options.

```task
id: NK-WP-0009-T06
status: todo
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "5b6a1670-a283-56e9-892e-ef8b91194a7b"
```

Add tutorial verification fixtures or checklists so each tutorial has a
clear "done when" outcome and does not become prose-only guidance.

## Acceptance Criteria

- Tutorials are grouped under a stable docs path with a repeatable
  format.
- Each tutorial maps back to one or more NK-WP-0008 patterns.
- Tutorials name the owning repo for every concrete implementation
  step.
- Tutorials include verification and rollback guidance, not just happy
  path commands.