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SCOPE

This file helps you quickly understand what this repository is about, when it is relevant, and when it is not. It is intentionally lightweight and may be incomplete.

One-liner

S1 Infrastructure Substrate of the Railiance OAS Stack — Git-driven OS provisioning, security hardening, and server baseline using Terraform, cloud-init, and Ansible.

Core Idea

Railiance is structured as five independent repos per OAS Stack layer. This repo is S1 — the foundation and the canonical ownership home for infrastructure substrate facts. It provisions bare-metal or cloud servers (Hetzner, HostEurope), hardens the OS, manages secrets (SOPS/age), and validates the resulting baseline with Goss tests. Future reef-* repos will model purpose-bound substrates, but the source-backed OS baseline, inventory, and server identity facts start here. S1 must be converged and verified before any higher layer (Kubernetes, platform, etc.) can run.

In Scope

  • OS provisioning via Terraform (Hetzner, HostEurope providers)
  • First-boot configuration via cloud-init
  • OS convergence via Ansible (base, security, sops_agent roles)
  • Security hardening and firewall rules
  • Secret management: SOPS/age encryption at rest in Git
  • Goss specification and test suite for OS baseline validation
  • Server inventory management (inventory/servers.yaml — source of truth)
  • SSH access management
  • Canonical S1 identity and substrate-fact base for future reef-* repos
  • Source-backed server and workstation substrate facts needed by higher-layer architecture work

Out of Scope

  • Kubernetes runtime → railiance-cluster (S2)
  • Platform services → railiance-platform (S3)
  • Developer tooling → railiance-enablement (S4)
  • Application deployments → railiance-apps (S5)
  • Workload execution semantics or rail contracts → rail-* repos
  • Purpose-specific reef repo ownership and workload-placement policy beyond the S1 source-backed substrate facts
  • No cross-layer re-configuration from higher layers

Relevant When

  • Provisioning new servers for the Railiance stack
  • OS hardening, Ansible convergence, or Goss verification
  • Managing server inventory or SSH access
  • Rotating SOPS/age keys or updating secrets
  • Preparing or validating first-wave reef-* rollout identity facts

Not Relevant When

  • Kubernetes, platform services, or application work (wrong layer)
  • Server is already provisioned and converged (use cluster/platform repos)

Current State

  • Status: maintained / productive
  • Implementation: HostEurope substrate baseline active for Railiance01 and CoulombCore; server spec + test suite active; first reef rollout source map defined. Railiance is classified along four repo-family axes (railiance-*, rail-*, rapp-*, reef-*), of which five railiance-* repos cover S1–S5; this file previously said "5-repo stack architecture", which predates that model
  • Stability: high for the current single-server and transitional two-server substrate reality; proven in production on 92.205.62.239
  • Usage: foundation for all Railiance deployments; canonical S1 source for higher-layer and future reef planning. railiance-hosts is superseded by this repo and carries a banner saying so; its retirement is pending in railiance-master
  • Firewall posture: RAIL-HO-WP-0009 finished. k3s API is tunnel-only (ADR-005); live Railiance01 UFW matches the declaration. CoulombCore UFW stays unmanaged (ufw_manage: false)
  • Resource evidence: RAIL-HO-WP-0008 finished. Non-secret identity, capacity observations, and host-ops labor live under docs/evidence/resource-hosteurope-railiance01/

How It Fits

  • Upstream dependencies: Terraform, Ansible, SOPS/age (external tools); cloud provider APIs
  • Downstream consumers: railiance-cluster (S2) depends on a converged, verified OS from this layer; all higher layers transitively depend on S1
  • Future substrate-boundary consumers: first-wave reef-* repos should project from the source-backed facts here rather than creating a second S1 inventory
  • Often used with: railiance-cluster (next layer), ops-bridge (SSH tunnel for remote State Hub access)

Terminology

  • Preferred terms: OAS Stack Level S1, convergence, verification, SOPS/age, Goss specification, boundary rule
  • Potentially confusing terms: "convergence" = applying Ansible to reach desired state; "verification" = running Goss tests to validate it

Related / Overlapping

  • railiance-cluster (S2) — consumes the OS baseline provided by S1
  • railiance-hosts — predecessor or migration-duplicate S1 line; not the canonical repo for new architecture work
  • ops-bridge — used to reach local State Hub from remote HostEurope server

Getting Oriented

  • Start with: CLAUDE.md (session protocol, remote execution), README.md (provisioning workflow)
  • Key files / directories: inventory/servers.yaml (authoritative server list), ansible/ (playbooks/roles), terraform/ (provider configs), goss/ (spec + tests), docs/reef-first-wave-source-map.md, docs/adr/ADR-003-railiance-5repo-stack-architecture.md
  • Entry points: make tf-plan, make tf-apply, make converge, make verify

Provided Capabilities

type: infrastructure
title: Server provisioning (Terraform)
description: Provision bare-metal and cloud servers on Hetzner and HostEurope via Terraform with cloud-init first-boot configuration.
keywords: [terraform, server, provisioning, hetzner, hosteurope, cloud-init, infrastructure]

type: infrastructure
title: OS hardening and convergence (Ansible)
description: Harden and converge server OS via Ansible (base, security, sops_agent roles) with Goss test suite for baseline validation.
keywords: [ansible, os, hardening, convergence, goss, security, baseline, validation]

type: security
title: Secret management (SOPS/age)
description: Manage encrypted secrets at rest in Git using SOPS/age — encrypt, rotate, and distribute secrets for Railiance infrastructure components.
keywords: [sops, age, secrets, encryption, gitops, key-rotation, credential]

Notes

Targets two current server substrates: CoulombCore (92.205.130.254) and Railiance01 (92.205.62.239). The first-wave reef rollout also recognizes a grouped operator workstation substrate. State Hub access uses ops-bridge — bridge up state-hub-coulombcore or bridge up state-hub-railiance01 from the workstation (see ADR-004).