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Bind Policy Nexus production release
2026-08-18 12:53:25 +02:00

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policy-nexus production release

railiance-apps owns only the approved production binding for policy.coulomb.social. Policy sources and the OCI artifact belong to policy-nexus; the Helm chart, hardening, verification, and rollback belong to rapp-policy-nexus. This repository must not copy either the generated site or the chart.

Binding a release

The source-controlled binding is bindings/policy-nexus-production.json. Before deployment, replace both null values and set status to release-approved:

  • image_digest: the registry-resolved sha256:... digest of the image published by policy-nexus;
  • publication_manifest_digest: the 64-hex SHA-256 printed by the release verifier for the exact publication-manifest.json in that image.

Tags are not accepted as production identity. The image digest and publication digest must be reviewed in the same change; this binds runtime bytes to policy source provenance without making this repository a second policy authority.

Preflight and deployment

With sibling checkouts of railiance-apps and rapp-policy-nexus:

make policy-nexus-check-binding
make policy-nexus-check-image
make policy-nexus-render
make policy-nexus-server-dry-run
make policy-nexus-deploy
make policy-nexus-status
make policy-nexus-smoke

Production deployment is an operator action. The current Forgejo build runner has registry-publication authority but intentionally has no cluster-deploy authority, kubeconfig, or SSH lane. Do not add those credentials to make this release automatic. The guarded Make targets refuse the current approved-awaiting-artifact binding and provide the reviewed execution path from an authorized operator workstation.

Rollback

Find the last known-good Helm revision with make policy-nexus-status, then:

make policy-nexus-rollback POLICY_NEXUS_REVISION=<revision>
make policy-nexus-smoke

After an emergency rollback, restore the binding file to the two immutable identities actually serving and capture the smoke output. The package promises restart recovery on the single-node reef, not multi-node high availability.