dfd48b1626
Cluster-A (bp-guacamole PVC immutability):
- New pre-install/pre-upgrade Helm hook (Job + per-release SA/Role/
RoleBinding + cluster-scoped CR/CRB for PV cleanup) that detects
when an existing `guacamole-recordings` PVC is bound to a
storageClass different from `.Values.guacamole.recordings.storageClass`
and deletes the PVC + bound PV so the chart-side PVC manifest can
recreate cleanly. Closes the live bp-guacamole HelmRelease wedge on
omantel iter-11 (`PersistentVolumeClaim ... is invalid: spec:
Forbidden: spec is immutable after creation`).
- Operator escape hatch: `.Values.guacamole.recordings.allowMigration:
false` suppresses the hook for Sovereigns with long-lived recording
state.
- Render test extended (15 docs total, plus toggle assertion).
- bp-guacamole chart 0.1.8 → 0.1.9; bootstrap-kit slot pin bumped
in both _template and omantel.omani.works overlays.
Cluster-B (Application phase stuck on Provisioning):
- application-controller now observes the per-region downstream
HelmRelease.status.conditions[Ready] and rolls up
Application.status.phase: any region Ready=True → phase=Ready,
any Ready=False → phase=Degraded, no HR yet → phase=Provisioning.
- Periodic 30s re-list ticker (Run goroutine) so HR readiness flips
reach the Application even though the Application Watch doesn't
fire on sibling HR changes.
- status.lastReconciledAt populated on every reconcile pass for
TC-113.
- application-controller ClusterRole gains
helm.toolkit.fluxcd.io/helmreleases get/list/watch.
- 3 new unit tests (HR Ready=True → phase=Ready, HR Ready=False →
phase=Degraded with verbatim message, no-HR → phase=Provisioning).
Cluster-C (SPA AppDetail + k8s services namespace filter):
- GET /api/v1/sovereigns/{id}/applications/{name} returns full
Application detail (identity + spec + status). The SPA AppDetail
page now falls back to this endpoint when wizard store has no
descriptor for the requested componentId — the typical chroot
Sovereign case where Apps are installed via `kubectl apply` /
catalyst-api install endpoint, NOT via the wizard. Without the
fallback every chroot-installed Application surfaced "App not
found / The component qa-wp is not part of this deployment"
even though the underlying CR was Ready=True. Closes TC-068 /
TC-072 / TC-074 / TC-076 / TC-077 / TC-079 et al.
- GET /api/v1/sovereigns/{id}/k8s/{kind} accepts BOTH `?ns=`
(historic) AND `?namespace=` (kubectl/SPA-canonical). Without
the alias TC-262 / TC-263 returned every namespace's services
instead of qa-omantel-only. New test covers all 4 query
permutations.
Chart bumps:
- bp-catalyst-platform 1.4.116 → 1.4.117 (+ pin in
clusters/_template/bootstrap-kit/13-bp-catalyst-platform.yaml).
- bp-guacamole 0.1.8 → 0.1.9.
Refs: qa-loop iter-11 Fix #45 (Cluster-A + Cluster-B + Cluster-C);
post-merge image SHAs land via the catalyst-api / catalyst-controllers
build workflows + the bp-guacamole / bp-catalyst-platform release
workflows.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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.