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hatiyildiz 91ae0cd3ce fix(dns): auto-write per-Sovereign A records into parent zone after Phase-0
Caught on prov t110.omani.works (fe09897a1b6b3c1d, 2026-05-15):

  dig +short A console.t110.omani.works @ns1.openova.io
  → 49.12.16.160     ← ORPHAN IP — Hetzner reassigned to a 3rd party

The mothership PowerDNS had ZERO records for t110's hostnames. A stale
wildcard `*.omani.works` (manual leftover from earlier provs) was
returning a wrong IP that no longer belonged to the openova project at
Hetzner — sending operator traffic to an unrelated tenant. The deeper
gap: catalyst-api never auto-wrote the per-Sovereign A records that
browsers need to resolve.

The existing parent-domain flow has:
  pdmCreatePowerDNSZone     — stub at parent_domains.go:1096
  certManagerStep           — stub at parent_domains.go:1141
  commitPDMWithRetry        — runs ONLY for pool-allocated FQDNs
                              (otech<N>.<pool>), NOT BYO

So BYO-style (operator-owned parent like omani.works + arbitrary
Sovereign FQDN like t111.omani.works) left the parent zone untouched.

Fix:

  internal/powerdns/client.go
    + PatchRRSets(ctx, zone, rrsets) — PATCH REPLACE on
      /api/v1/servers/{id}/zones/{zone} with idempotent re-runs

  internal/handler/handler.go
    + powerdnsZoneClient interface gains PatchRRSets — wired
      automatically by SetPowerDNSZoneClient

  internal/handler/sovereign_dns_records.go (new)
    + CanonicalSovereignSubdomains: console / auth / gitea / harbor /
      registry / bao / grafana / hubble / pdns / openova-flow /
      marketplace / api / guacamole
    + upsertSovereignParentZoneRecords: PATCH the parent zone with one
      A record per subdomain → primary LB IP
    + upsertSovereignParentZoneRecordsFromResult: deployment-flow
      wrapper that iterates every parentDomain in the request body

  internal/handler/deployments.go
    + Call upsertSovereignParentZoneRecordsFromResult right after
      commitPDMWithRetry on Phase-0 success — best-effort (log +
      continue), so a PowerDNS hiccup doesn't bail the Sovereign

Operator override via CATALYST_SOVEREIGN_SUBDOMAINS not yet wired —
filed as follow-up. Today the canonical list is the chart-side HTTPRoute
list, kept aligned via the comment in sovereign_dns_records.go.
2026-05-15 19:12:30 +02:00
.claude docs(iter-1): add IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS, fix wrong-org refs, reconcile monorepo 2026-04-27 20:43:31 +02:00
.github ci(openova-flow): build openova-flow-server + adapter-flux images + sed chart tags (#1398) 2026-05-11 16:03:31 +04:00
.playwright-mcp feat(wizard): job dependencies SVG DAG + (stretch) timeline view (closes #206) (#212) 2026-04-29 21:40:43 +02:00
clusters fix(sovereign-tls): tls-restart Job needs list+watch on deployments/daemonsets 2026-05-15 19:02:28 +02:00
core fix(pdm/dynadot): auto-register NS glue records before set_ns (#1496) 2026-05-15 13:32:49 +04:00
docs feat(openova-flow): catalyst-api proxy + cloud-init thread (Agent #3 — integrator, infra-side) (#1396) 2026-05-11 16:01:09 +04:00
infra fix(cloudinit): thread cluster.name + cluster.id into pre-Flux cilium-values.yaml 2026-05-15 17:48:51 +02:00
platform fix(openbao): make auth-bootstrap Job idempotent on post-upgrade (token already revoked) (#1484) 2026-05-14 19:13:34 +04:00
products fix(dns): auto-write per-Sovereign A records into parent zone after Phase-0 2026-05-15 19:12:30 +02:00
scripts feat(openova-flow): server (HTTP+SSE event router) + flux adapter (K8s informer sidecar) (#1390) 2026-05-11 15:36:54 +04:00
tests fix(bp-newapi+services-build): imagePullSecrets on Pod, sed bumps values.yaml smeTag (#955) 2026-05-05 15:47:37 +04:00
tools/qa-loop feat(qa-loop): tier-scoped test-session endpoint + canonical PW runner (iter-11 Fix #46) (#1266) 2026-05-10 07:40:44 +04:00
.gitignore feat(infra-hetzner): wire all var.regions[] entries end-to-end (slice G1, #1095) (#1131) 2026-05-09 00:29:44 +04:00
CLAUDE.md docs(component-count): update 53 → 56 anchors after Pass 105 (spire + nats-jetstream + sealed-secrets) 2026-04-28 13:48:24 +02:00
package-lock.json feat(openova-flow): npm workspaces + FlowPage canvas real-adapter rewire (Agent #5) (#1399) 2026-05-11 16:59:07 +04:00
package.json feat(openova-flow): npm workspaces + FlowPage canvas real-adapter rewire (Agent #5) (#1399) 2026-05-11 16:59:07 +04:00
README.md docs(reconcile-pass-2): align docs with ground truth at 6afdb303 2026-04-29 11:48:57 +02:00

OpenOva Catalyst

A self-sufficient Kubernetes-native platform. Published as signed OCI Blueprints. Deployable as your own Sovereign.

Catalyst is the open-source platform built by OpenOva. It turns any Kubernetes cluster into a Sovereign: a self-contained control plane that hosts Organizations, Environments, and Applications via GitOps + Crossplane, with a unified UI/Git/API for users.


Documentation

Document What it covers
docs/GLOSSARY.md Canonical terminology — read first
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md Catalyst architecture overview
docs/IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS.md What's built today vs what's design-only — read second
docs/NAMING-CONVENTION.md Naming patterns for every resource type
docs/PERSONAS-AND-JOURNEYS.md Personas × journeys matrix; surfaces
docs/SECURITY.md Identity (SPIFFE + Keycloak), secrets (OpenBao + ESO), rotation, multi-region semantics
docs/SOVEREIGN-PROVISIONING.md How to bring a Sovereign online
docs/BLUEPRINT-AUTHORING.md Writing Blueprints (incl. Crossplane Compositions)
docs/PLATFORM-TECH-STACK.md Every component's role in Catalyst
docs/SRE.md Operating a Sovereign
docs/BUSINESS-STRATEGY.md Product strategy and GTM
docs/TECHNOLOGY-FORECAST-2027-2030.md Component forecast 20272030
docs/VALIDATION-LOG.md Trail of doc-integrity validation passes (audit log)

Heads-up before reading further: the architecture docs in this repo describe Catalyst's target state. Significant portions are not yet implemented — see docs/IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS.md for what exists today vs what is design.


The model in 60 seconds

OpenOva (the company) publishes Catalyst (the platform).
A deployed Catalyst is called a Sovereign.

A Sovereign has:
  - Organizations (multi-tenancy unit)
  - Environments (org-scoped, env-typed: prod/stg/uat/dev/poc)
  - Applications (installed Blueprints)
  - Blueprints (the App Store catalog — public + Org-private)

Users install Applications from Blueprints into Environments.
Blueprints can depend on Blueprints (arbitrary depth).
Each Environment is one Gitea repo + one or more vclusters.
Every state change is a Git commit.
Every UI surface reads from a single CQRS projection.

Same code runs in every Sovereign:
  - openova         (run by us; SaaS Organizations)
  - omantel         (run by Omantel; SME Organizations across Oman)
  - bankdhofar      (run by the bank; internal Organizations)
  - your-company    (run by you, on infrastructure you choose)

See docs/GLOSSARY.md for every term, docs/ARCHITECTURE.md for the full picture.


What's in this repo

openova/
├── core/              # Catalyst control-plane application (Go) — design-stage; mostly placeholders today
├── platform/          # Component Blueprint folders (one folder per upstream OSS project)
├── products/          # Composite Blueprint folders OpenOva publishes
│   ├── catalyst/      # The Catalyst control plane itself, target umbrella Blueprint
│   ├── cortex/        # AI Hub (LLM serving, RAG, AI safety)
│   ├── axon/          # SaaS LLM Gateway (default upstream for Cortex)
│   ├── fingate/       # Open Banking (PSD2/FAPI sandbox)
│   ├── fabric/        # Data & Integration (event-driven + lakehouse)
│   └── relay/         # Communication (email, video, chat, WebRTC)
│                      # (specter and exodus are deliverable services, not Blueprints in this layout)
└── docs/              # Platform documentation

Each folder under platform/ and products/ is the source of one Blueprint, published from CI as a signed OCI artifact at ghcr.io/openova-io/bp-<name>:<semver> (the bp- prefix is added to the OCI artifact name; folder names stay short). Per-folder isolation is provided at the OCI artifact layer, not the Git repo layer — this is a monorepo with per-Blueprint fan-out, not a meta-repo of separate Git repositories. See docs/BLUEPRINT-AUTHORING.md §2 for the folder layout contract.

Today, the 12-component bootstrap kit (cilium, cert-manager, flux, crossplane, sealed-secrets, spire, nats-jetstream, openbao, keycloak, gitea, powerdns + the bp-catalyst-platform umbrella under products/catalyst/) ships with full chart/ + blueprint.yaml per docs/IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS.md §7, plus products/axon/ and the external-dns leaf chart. The remaining 45 platform components and the cortex / fabric / fingate / relay product folders are design-stage — README only — until each lands its Blueprint manifest, chart, Compositions, and CI fan-out.


Stack at a glance

Layer Technology
Container runtime k3s (k8s-conformant), containerd
CNI / Service Mesh Cilium (eBPF mTLS, L7 policies, Gateway API)
GitOps Flux (per-vcluster, lightweight)
Git Gitea (per-Sovereign, hosts Blueprint mirror + per-Environment repos)
IaC for non-K8s Crossplane (the only IaC; not user-facing)
Bootstrap IaC OpenTofu (one-shot, archived after Phase 0)
Multi-tenancy vcluster (one per Organization per host cluster)
Identity (workloads) SPIFFE/SPIRE (5-min rotating SVIDs, mTLS everywhere)
Identity (users) Keycloak (per-Org for SME, per-Sovereign for corporate)
Secrets OpenBao (Apache 2.0; independent Raft per region, no stretched cluster) + External Secrets Operator
Event spine NATS JetStream (Apache 2.0; pub/sub + KV; per-Org accounts)
TLS cert-manager + Let's Encrypt or corporate CA
Policy Kyverno
Supply chain cosign (Sigstore), Syft + Grype SBOM, Trivy scans
Runtime security Falco (eBPF)
Observability OpenTelemetry → Grafana stack (Alloy + Loki + Mimir + Tempo)
WAF Coraza (OWASP CRS)
DNS PowerDNS authoritative per Sovereign zone + DNSSEC + lua-records (ifurlup, pickclosest); pool-domain-manager allocates pool subdomains and flips parent-zone NS via registrar adapters (Cloudflare / Namecheap / GoDaddy / OVH / Dynadot) — see docs/MULTI-REGION-DNS.md, docs/PLATFORM-POWERDNS.md
Backup Velero (to SeaweedFS, which routes the cold tier to cloud archival S3)
Container registry Harbor

For the full component list and trends see docs/PLATFORM-TECH-STACK.md and docs/TECHNOLOGY-FORECAST-2027-2030.md.


Cloud providers

Provider Status
Hetzner Cloud Available (most-tested path)
AWS / GCP / Azure Crossplane providers available; full path coming
Oracle Cloud (OCI) Crossplane provider available; full path coming
Huawei Cloud Crossplane provider available; full path coming

All providers reach Catalyst via the same Crossplane abstraction; Sovereign provisioning details per provider are in docs/SOVEREIGN-PROVISIONING.md.


Getting started

Try it (managed)

Visit marketplace.openova.io to install Applications on the openova Sovereign without any infrastructure setup. SaaS journey for SMEs and evaluations.

Run your own Sovereign

1. Provision via catalyst-provisioner.openova.io (managed bootstrap), OR
2. Self-host bp-catalyst-provisioner in your own infrastructure (air-gap path).

Then follow the procedure in docs/SOVEREIGN-PROVISIONING.md.

Build a Blueprint

See docs/BLUEPRINT-AUTHORING.md. A Blueprint is a folder under platform/<name>/ (or products/<name>/) in this monorepo containing blueprint.yaml + manifests (Helm chart or Kustomize base) + (optional) Crossplane Compositions. CI signs each folder's contents and publishes to OCI as ghcr.io/openova-io/bp-<name>:<semver>. Catalyst's blueprint-controller picks it up automatically. Org-private Blueprints follow the same shape inside per-Sovereign Gitea repos.


License

All Blueprints and the Catalyst control plane are open source. Each component carries its own upstream license (typically Apache 2.0, MPL 2.0, or BSD-3); see each component's LICENSE file.

OpenOva charges for support, managed operations, and expert services — never for access to code. See docs/BUSINESS-STRATEGY.md §10.


Contributing

PRs welcome. The contribution path for Blueprints (including Crossplane Compositions) is documented in docs/BLUEPRINT-AUTHORING.md §13. Issues and discussions on GitHub.


Cloud-native is the foundation. Catalyst is how you operate it.