e2f8df7430
Phase-8a-preflight live deployments otech1..otech9 (2026-05-01) consistently
flipped status: ready and phase1FinishedAt seconds after Phase-0 completed,
even though no kubeconfig PUT had been received and the new Sovereign was
still mid-cloud-init. The wizard banner read "Sovereign ready" while
catalyst-api had observed precisely zero HelmReleases. The screenshot at
.playwright-mcp/otech9-cluster-bootstrap-2026-05-01.png even logs:
"Phase-1 watch skipped: no kubeconfig is available on the
catalyst-api side."
…on a deployment whose status was simultaneously "ready". The UI lied to
the operator on every iteration today.
Root cause: markPhase1Done(dep, nil, "") was called from two short-circuit
paths (kubeconfig missing + watcher-start failure). Empty outcome fell
through the switch's default branch which set Status="ready". With no
observed components and no terminal classification there is nothing
truthful catalyst-api can say about the new Sovereign except "I don't know"
— which means failed, with an operator-actionable diagnostic.
Fix:
- Add helmwatch.OutcomeKubeconfigMissing + OutcomeWatcherStartFailed
outcome constants.
- Replace the two markPhase1Done(_, nil, "") call sites with explicit
outcomes.
- Add explicit cases in the switch that set Status="failed" with errors
pointing the operator at cloud-init logs / informer factory init.
- Keep a defensive "outcome empty AND len(finalStates)==0" trap so any
future caller that forgets to pass a non-empty outcome surfaces as a
programming-error failure rather than silently flipping ready.
- Strengthen TestRunPhase1Watch_EmptyKubeconfigShortCircuits to assert
Status=="failed", a non-empty Error mentioning kubeconfig, and the
exact OutcomeKubeconfigMissing on Result.Phase1Outcome. Pre-fix the
test only asserted "not stuck at phase1-watching" — too weak to catch
the false-ready regression.
go test ./products/catalyst/bootstrap/api/... — all green.
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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 2027–2030 |
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.mdfor 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 fullchart/+blueprint.yamlperdocs/IMPLEMENTATION-STATUS.md§7, plusproducts/axon/and theexternal-dnsleaf chart. The remaining 45 platform components and thecortex / fabric / fingate / relayproduct 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.