Changelog 2026-07-30 (part 3) -- STAGE 5 OPENED: the Juju deployment

Session changelog part 3 (part 1 = changelog-20260730-docfix205-d117-annotation.md, part 2 = changelog-20260730-octavia-reissue-tool.md). Branch dc-dc-stage5-preconditions. Status claims live ONLY in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md.

Trigger. The standing operator directive recorded at the 2026-07-30 part-2 close: "we have to continue to juju deployment next session no matter what". This session opens Stage 5 and runs the deployment.

No new D-number (GA-R3). Opening a stage is OPS; the P5 acceptance is an operational gate disposition against existing SEC rows, not architecture. Next-free UNCHANGED: D 138 / DOCFIX 206 / BUNDLEFIX 053.

Operator rulings recorded (GA-R5, one exchange each, verbatim)

1. P5 GATE -- "Accept and proceed to deploy (Recommended)". Question as presented and the full consequence text are in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md section 1 (the status authority). The six enumerated findings are accepted, known, pre-existing exposure; preflight.sh continues to exit FAIL on P5 for the stage's duration and that RED is ruled-accepted. The acceptance covers those six and nothing else.

Items

1. Stage 5 OPENED; the P5 acceptance ruling recorded; entry gate captured

What. docs/CURRENT-STATE.md section 1 gains the Stage-5 OPEN entry: the branch decision and why, the measured entry gate, the P5 ruling with the question and the operator's exact utterance, and one logged-not-executed finding. New capture docs/audit/stage5-preflight-dc0-20260730.txt (237 lines, DC=vr1-dc0 bash scripts/preflight.sh run ON voffice1, exit 1).

Why (evidence). GA-R1/C1 puts the status change and the document update in one commit; GA-R5 requires the ruling committed and pushed before dependent work. Four read-only checks were made BEFORE putting the question, so it was asked once and asked grounded:

• Both clones at c58bf95, same branch, clean. voffice1 was found on a 105-commit-stale retired branch at the 2026-07-27 close and the "back to main at merge" follow-up never fired, because nothing merged. Verified rather than assumed: a stale clone silently deploys the wrong bundle.
• Preflight run ON voffice1, not here. P5 was found probing the wrong host's filesystem on 2026-07-30 (34 findings vs the true 7), P7 is headend-only, and one gate was found RED on the only host that deploys. A vcloud reading is not the gate reading.
• Deploy artifacts verified as FILES (bundle.yaml VR1 9-node role-separated; both per-DC -vips/-machines/-octavia-pki overlays present, the PKI pair 0600 and gitignored). This is the standing "RULED IS NOT BUILT -- check the artifact" rule applied to the 2026-07-24 committee record, which is now superseded by measurement.
• The deploy-order ruling was READ, not taken from its summary (CURRENT-STATE.md:986). There is no ruled DC ordering; dc1-first artifacts are not a divergence.

Revert. git revert <this commit> -- it removes the Stage-5 OPEN entry, the recorded ruling and the capture reference. The capture file itself can be deleted separately; it is evidence, not configuration, and nothing reads it. Reverting the ruling does NOT un-ask the question: re-asking would need a fresh GA-R5 exchange.

2. LOGGED, NOT EXECUTED -- ceph-osd carries the stale VR0 constraint tags=openstack

What. bundle.yaml:592. Recorded in docs/CURRENT-STATE.md section 1; no edit made.

Why (evidence). ceph-osd is the ONLY application of 56 carrying a tag constraint -- every other reads arch=amd64 alone (parsed from bundle.yaml, not grepped). The tag is measured ABSENT from the VR1 region: maas admin tags read returns virtual, pod-console-logging, serial-console, openstack-vr1-dc0, openstack-vr1-dc1, control, compute, storage, juju-controller-vr1-dc0, juju-controller-vr1-dc1 -- no bare openstack. Neither machines overlay overrides it (vr1-dc0-machines.yaml is applications:-only and says so).

What is NOT measured, and is labelled as such. ceph-osd has explicit placement (to: ["5","6","7","8"]), so the initial deploy is EXPECTED to place by machine id regardless. The reasoned-not-measured exposure is a later unplaced juju add-unit ceph-osd matching no machine. The real impact is observable at Step 4.2's --dry-run and nowhere earlier, which is why it is recorded now and decided there. Hard rule 1 forbids fixing it mid-step, and the standing rule is that a finding is an observation, not a conclusion.

Revert. Nothing to revert -- no artifact was changed.