| 2026-07-14 |

D-119: region-qualify the VR1 DC namespace -- C3 / gap #19 CLOSED (Stage 3 unblocked)
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THE BUG: the token `dc0` meant TWO DIFFERENT CLOUDS depending on the file --
VR0's LIVE testcloud in scripts/lib-net.sh, VR1's FIRST DC in the NetBox
importer. One string, two clouds, one of them in production.
THE RULING (operator): the repo adopts the apex's names verbatim.
vr0-dc0 VR0's DC0 the LIVE testcloud (a DIFFERENT region)
vr1-dc0 VR1's FIRST DC GUA 2602:f3e2:f02::/48
vr1-dc1 VR1's SECOND DC GUA 2602:f3e2:f03::/48
Bare dc0/dc1/dc2 are now REJECTED LOUDLY everywhere.
D-119 COMPLETES D-117, it does not reverse it: it executes D-117's own amendment
across the three surfaces D-117 never touched. ZERO NetBox writes -- the apex was
already correct and self-consistent (MEASURED: f02::/48 -> vr1-dc0, f03::/48 ->
vr1-dc1); the REPO was the only surface out of step. Renaming the apex to match
the repo was considered and REJECTED (production IPAM write; VR1 would become the
only 1-indexed region; and vr1-dc1 would mean VR1's FIRST DC while vr0-dc1 means
VR0's SECOND).
THE PRIZE: the importer's DC->site map is now an IDENTITY -- there is no offset
table left to get wrong, and an assert enforces it. The original defect was
precisely a WRONG LOOKUP TABLE. The bug class is deleted, not defended.
TWO REAL BUGS the naming fix ALONE would NOT have closed (found by review sweep):
- BREAK-1: descriptions were built with f"VR1 {dc.upper()} ..." -- under D-119 that
renders "VR1 VR1-DC0 provider-public" on all 36 prefixes. Same class as the
original bug (deriving a label by munging a token), hidden in the description
field where slug-focused review missed it. Now looked up from SITES[name].
- BREAK-2 (the important one): DC_GUA_PREFIX was NEVER cross-checked against --dc.
`--dc vr1-dc0 DC_GUA_PREFIX=<f03>` was ACCEPTED: it writes the SECOND DC's GUA,
carved with the FIRST DC's ULA nibble, scoped to the FIRST DC's site -- a
silently mis-bound datacenter assembled from two disagreeing sources. Identity-
mapping the slug leaves the ADDRESSING free-floating. Now guarded by EXPECTED_GUA.
ALSO: vdc1/vdc2 -> vvr1-dc0/vvr1-dc1 (D-114 amendment). D-114's own DR primitive is
`virsh destroy vdc1`, which read as "destroy VR1 DC1" while MEANING "destroy VR1
DC0". A mislabelled destroy command in a DR drill is not cosmetic. Neither VM is
built, so it is free. voffice1/Office1 KEEP their number (operator ruling).
Env var: DC1_/DC2_V4_SUPERNET -> VR1_DC1_V4_SUPERNET (both old names rejected).
rbd-mirror's --site-name aligned: `--dc vr1-dc0 --site-name dc1` was a re-created
two-namespace collision on one command line.
TESTS: dc-selector 21->30, prefixes-import 40->82 (identity invariant; EXPECTED_GUA
in BOTH mismatch directions; mismatched run writes NOTHING; matching pair still
succeeds; no munged description). GAUNTLET ALL GREEN (57). repo-lint 0 fail.
The old harnesses PINNED THE WRONG MAPPING -- they would have gone green while
enforcing the bug.
THE tofu apply IS NOT DONE -- IT IS GATED. Plan: 11 to add, 0 to change, 11 to
destroy (libvirt object names are ForceNew; moved{} makes the plan reviewable but
cannot suppress a replace). MEASURED SAFE: all 11 are EMPTY -- no guests, no
volumes, Stage 3 hasn't run. Office1's live objects are not in the plan.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| 2026-07-13 |

D-114: voffice1 is LIVE. cloudinit-vm gains nested virt -- it was silently broken for the model
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APPLIED, operator-approved: 5 added, 0 changed, 0 destroyed. The running OPNsense edge was NOT
touched (confirmed by plan BEFORE apply -- no in-place update, so no repeat of the 2026-07-13
guest bounce).
THE MODULE WAS SILENTLY BROKEN FOR D-114'S ENTIRE MODEL. modules/cloudinit-vm's libvirt_domain
had NO `cpu` block. With none, libvirt renders a GENERIC EMULATED CPU exposing no `svm` -- and
LXD *virtual machines* are qemu/KVM guests, so NO service VM could ever have been composed into
voffice1. D-114 would have failed at its first step with a confusing "KVM not available" that
pointed nowhere near OpenTofu. Measured proof of the masking: host is an AMD EPYC 9965; a
default-CPU guest was handed an "Opteron_G3".
Fix: `cpu { mode = "host-passthrough" }` always, plus a new `expose_nested_virt` variable with NO
default -- a real per-VM decision. true = pass `svm` through (required for D-114's containment
VMs); false = disable it, matching modules/opnsense-edge. The operator asked whether the edge's
`svm` disable was a leftover of the failed OPNsense deploy: it is NOT. It was tried as a
triple-fault fix on 2026-07-12, did NOT resolve it (the real cause was the memory unit), and was
retained on hardening grounds. A router has no business seeing nested virt. It stays disabled there.
voffice1 as built (MEASURED): Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, 16 vCPU / 32 GiB / 600 GiB, single NIC on
office1-local, reports the real EPYC CPU with svm on all 16 cores and /dev/kvm PRESENT, egress to
1.1.1.1 at 4.6ms THROUGH the edge. Cloud-init deliberately MINIMAL (identity + key + guest agent);
MAAS and LXD go in as separate GATED steps rather than buried in a first-boot script that either
silently works or silently does not. The SSH pubkey is read via file(var...) at plan time -- key
material never enters a command line, the repo, or an agent's context; the tfvars holding the path
stays gitignored. network_config matches the NIC by GLOB, not a guessed kernel name (an inferred
value); it came up enp1s0.
TWO GATES CLEARED:
1. KEA HAS SERVED ITS FIRST REAL DHCP LEASE. Standing open item: the daemon was proven, the
SERVICE never was (office1-local had no client). voffice1 -- the first client ever on that LAN
-- took 10.10.0.100, hwaddr 52:54:00:6a:87:e5 (matches its NIC), hostname voffice1, state
active, read back through the D-113(a2) REST API. DHCP now works end to end.
2. D-114's NESTING PROBE PASSES AT L3. Stated honestly: this proves nested KVM is AVAILABLE. The
DEFINITIVE proof is a guest actually booting inside voffice1 -- that lands with the first
composed LXD VM. Not recording L3 as fully proven until then.
FINDING, logged NOT actioned (DC1 is gated behind Office1 per D-114): modules/node-vm has the SAME
missing-cpu-block defect. DC nodes run nova-compute, which needs working KVM -- without the fix
they will come up unable to run a single instance. MUST be fixed before Stage 3.
opentofu-validate PASS, repo-lint 0 fail.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| 2026-07-10 |

DC-DC Stage 1 (dc-dc-phase0): first real execution + scaffold/tooling fixes
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First end-to-end run of a DC-DC runbook against real infrastructure (vcloud host,
OpenTofu v1.12.3). Applied 13 libvirt objects (6 DC1 planes, dc1/office1/dc2
pools, office1-local, 3 mesh legs, all MTU 9000); prior VR0 nets torn down (wan
kept as a gap-#17 model); DC2 planes deferred (NetBox supernet), DC2 storage wired.
DOCFIX-178: scripts/prereqs/ idempotent workstation prereq installers + a
Prerequisites section in the runbook + tests/prereqs/ (25/25). Runbooks must
not assume prereq runtimes.
DOCFIX-179: OpenTofu scaffold first validation + apply. Per-module
required_providers (child modules do NOT inherit provider SOURCE -> OpenTofu
inferred nonexistent hashicorp/libvirt); tofu fmt -recursive; provider "maas"
deferred to Stage 3 (kept a sensitive key out of Stage-1 plan/state);
repo-lint now skips the .terraform/ provider cache; .terraform.lock.hcl added.
DOCFIX-180: dc-dc-phase0 runbook as-executed corrections folded in at phase
close (two MTU domains, non-pristine-host handling, Step-9 13-resource plan,
-input=false, Known-Gap resolved).
repo-lint 0 fail; prereqs harness 25/25; repo-lint harness 34/34.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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DOCFIX-145 + OPNsense deployment research
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opentofu/modules/base-image + modules/cloudinit-vm: the cloud-init/pre-built-
image VM pattern for Office1's own service VMs (MAAS-region, NetBox,
GitBucket), verified against examples/alpine_cloudinit.tf. The base image's
.path is threaded across the module boundary as a real attribute reference
rather than reconstructed from pool+name strings. user_data/meta_data/
network_config are required inputs with no default -- the real Office1 VM
configs aren't designed yet, and a plausible DHCP default would silently
fail anyway since these planes carry no libvirt DHCP.
OPNsense research (no DOCFIX -- research delivery, not code): checked
OPNsense's own docs/forum/GitHub. Confirmed cloud-init is genuinely
unreliable on OPNsense (FreeBSD; OPNsense's own forum consensus), closing
the open question cloudinit-vm's build left. Found the real mechanism: the
Configuration Importer scans an attached volume for /conf/config.xml in a
2-3s boot window; ISO9660 support was added to it specifically for VM/cloud
automation -- mechanically identical to cloudinit-vm's cdrom-attach shape,
different payload. Use the nano image for KVM, not the installer images.
Fully sourced in opentofu/README.md. Not built yet, itemized: a decompress/
convert preprocessing script, an ISO9660 config.xml-seed builder, and the
real config.xml content.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QrcJx8TUar7pYAvpGJw57A
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