Day-Wrap Archive

Chronological index of session-closeout records — the auditable handoff trail that lets the next session resume without reading chat history.

This page is the chronological index of session-closeout records — the auditable handoff trail that lets the next operator resume work without reading chat history. The cadence has two layers:

  1. Per-session reports under opp-full-plat/reports/sessions/<timestamp>-<slug>.md. Every non-trivial session produces one. The scripts/close-session.sh <slug> helper creates a timestamped stub; the operator fills it before final handoff.
  2. Day-wrap issues on GitHub when the day’s work warrants a roll-up summary (multiple operators installed, multiple ADRs accepted, large number of MRs merged). These reference the underlying per-session reports.

The day-wrap convention itself was set during the 2026-05-05 → 2026-05-09 window (session-routines + session-closeout patterns appeared on 2026-05-05 and 2026-05-08). The most explicit roll-up — Session 2026-05-10: day wrap — is issue #159.

This page is the index, not the content. Each entry links to the underlying record. Per the workspace boundary rule, the linked records may discuss internal IPs and credentials in their full form; the published index avoids restating those.

How to read this index

ColumnWhat
DateThe UTC date the session closed. Sessions that span midnight UTC use the close date.
ScopeOne-line headline — what the session was about.
Key decisionsThe 1–3 architectural or operational decisions that came out of the session, often tied to an ADR or runbook.
Follow-ups createdIssues, MRs, or sub-tasks opened during closeout that carried forward.

2026-05-12

DateScopeKey decisionsFollow-ups created
2026-05-12Kafka monitoring Phase 1 closeout — defect foundPhase 1 of OCP-side Kafka monitoring (clusters/spoke-dc-v6/platform-services/kafka-monitoring/) shipped — kafka-exporter Deployment + Service + ServiceMonitor + PrometheusRule + Vault-sourced pull secret — and Argo is Synced/Healthy. Validation found one true-positive defect: namespace.yaml carries openshift.io/cluster-monitoring=true, which hands the namespace to platform Prometheus instead of UWM. KafkaExporterDown fires correctly because the platform scraper can’t reach the pod (NetworkPolicy only allows UWM ingress). Fix is a one-label drop; Phase 2 broker JMX scrape via UWM is parked on #273 because the spoke’s argocd-cm excludes both Endpoints and EndpointSlice from Argo sync.Phase 1 fix MR pending; #273 Phase 2 (broker JMX via UWM, requires relaxing Endpoints/EndpointSlice exclusion or picking a target representation Argo will sync)
2026-05-12jboss-chat OSSM3 ambient mTLS pilot livePod-to-pod mTLS inside jboss-chat enabled via the OSSM3 ambient pattern, mirroring ossm3-demo. Platform GitOps !130/!131/!132 enrolled bank-employees-jboss-chat with istio.io/dataplane-mode=ambient, added ztunnel workload-identity RBAC, allowed ambient control-plane + same-namespace mesh traffic, and granted the tenant Argo RBAC for PodDisruptionBudgets. App-repo !31/!33 converted kubelet probes to localhost exec probes and switched mutable-image demo deployments to Recreate (server-side apply was retaining the old rollingUpdate field). All pods carry ambient.istio.io/redirection=enabled; ztunnel metrics show connection_security_policy="mutual_tls" for BFF→chat-backend and BFF→EAP group connections. Namespace ambient L4 mTLS only — no waypoint, so L7 policy + full Kiali HTTP graph remain future work.Issue #278 (APP-JBOSS-CHAT8) remains open: workload-specific Redis ACL user, Kafka TLS/SASL + ACLs, SigNoz vs platform collector+Tempo decision, CI-automated Playwright login smoke, waypoint decision
2026-05-12JBoss EAP managed-domain split progressingDesired-state split into eap-domain-controller, eap-host-controller-a, eap-host-controller-b Deployments plus controller/group Services is in tree. User-facing path is green (route HTTP 200, Playwright login passes for shaikat and zahid, bff 2/2, chat-backend 1/1, frontend-v{1,2} 2/2). The new host-controller rollout was not fully clean during the day — eap-host-controller-a cycled 0/1 with WFLYHC0052 connection timeouts to remote+http://eap-domain-controller:9990 before the rollout converged.Live state at day’s end: Argo Application/jboss-chat Synced/Healthy after the ambient + Recreate fixes; host-controller rollout converged later in the day
2026-05-12BRAC POC demo liveBRAC engagement POC went live at https://brac-poc.apps.sub.comptech-lab.com/. Single browser SPA + Fastify BFF + dc-lab VM reuse — 8 panels (WSO2 APIM, WSO2 IS, OSSM ambient mTLS, mesh canary, observability + Kafka, Redis HA, SigNoz, Nexus). Deployment surface is Vite dev mode on dl385 (160.30.63.130:5173) fronted by HAProxy edge (brac-poc.apps.sub.comptech-lab.com:443) via SNI passthrough + loopback re-decrypt. New HAProxy backend brac-poc-demo-be and per-frontend rules added; dated cfg backup /etc/haproxy/haproxy.cfg.bak-20260511T134559Z-pre-brac-poc-retry. Demo apps run on OpenShift (spoke-dc-v6) where wired; no docker-runtime-vm involvement.Cluster-side wiring of /demo/mesh, /demo/canary/split, /demo/observability/trigger queued (manifest tree under brac-poc-demo/manifests/); MFE Router + BFF Router as separate Deployments on OCP deferred; Liberty in-mesh services deferred until P5
2026-05-12DefectDojo / Trivy import wiring repaired + historical backfillDD-IMPORT1 (#276) finished for jboss-chat: Jenkins now has secret-text credentials defectdojo-base-url and defectdojo-api-token; jboss-chat-image-build #21/#22 imported five Trivy JSON scans into DefectDojo product team-bank-employees/jboss-chat, engagement main-build-22. DD-IMPORT2 (#277) backfilled 15 historical historical-build-* engagements across chat-app, demo-smoke, liberty-smoke, node-smoke, openliberty-readiness-probe.Latest engagement at session close was main-build-25 (Critical 18 / High 878 / Medium 19395 / Low 16621) — finding triage is the next phase
2026-05-12OSSM3 demo React frontend repair + Kiali inbound wiringOSSM3-DEMO1 (#275) follow-up replaced the inline Node-rendered index with a generated React frontend (web/ source, scripts/build-frontend.js, lucide deps, static serving from dist/); Jenkins build #3 succeeded after fixing a stale trivy-reports/ossm3-demo.tar reuse bug; Kiali now uses OpenShift monitoring Thanos instead of the missing default prometheus.istio-system Service (platform GitOps !121/!123/!124/!126). istio_requests_total{destination_workload_namespace="ossm3-demo"} returned 23 live series; traffic-generator exercises catalog/checkout/demo paths continuously so Kiali shows live service-to-service traffic.none — issue closed
2026-05-12Perses post-login load failure fixedperses-oauth-proxy was failing the upstream TLS handshake to the Perses Service. Platform GitOps !128 projected the OpenShift service CA into the proxy so it trusts the in-cluster cert; the proxy rollout completed, Route/perses is admitted, in-pod OpenSSL verification returned Verify return code: 0 (ok). Console-embedded Perses path still trips invalid CSRFToken because COO 1.4 + monitoring-console-plugin Perses integration is Tech Preview; workaround is the direct route at https://perses-coo.apps.spoke-dc-v6.sub.comptech-lab.com.Console CSRF integration is an upstream COO maturity issue; not actionable from GitOps
2026-05-12Local oc context refreshRefreshed short kubeconfig contexts hub-dc-v6 / hub-dc-v6-admin / spoke-dc-v6 / spoke-dc-v6-admin from per-cluster admin kubeconfigs under /home/ze/.kube/configs/. Current context is spoke-dc-v6; both short contexts validate as system:admin with cluster-admin capability. Direct oc login as ze against the HTPasswd IdP returned the OpenShift token-request URL rather than a CLI token, so the working contexts use the certificate-admin kubeconfigs.Issue #254 OP-HANDOFF3 follow-up: token-request flow for the htpasswd identity is a separate ergonomics task

2026-05-11

DateScopeKey decisionsFollow-ups created
2026-05-11PCI-DSS chain closePCI-0..PCI-5 + PCI-1.13 closed end-to-end on spoke-dc-v6; auditor evidence pack published (reports/pci-dss/spoke-dc-v6-pci-dss-v4-baseline-2026-05-11.md, ~340 lines); MR !53 merged (TailoredProfile + hardening — branch pci-3-hardening-tailored-profile); MR !54 merged (spoke argocd-platform-extensions ClusterRole unblock — single consolidated 16-API-group ClusterRole replaces the per-resource pattern); MR !55 merged (TailoredProfile exclusion for CSO + ingress-ciphers). Final PCI-DSS FAIL counts: 8 platform / 3 master / 0 PCI-1.13. ADR 0026 (IPv6 baseline for OVN-Kubernetes — supersedes the host-kernel-disable language of ADR 0005) was authored under review issue #245 after the 2026-05-10 OVN incident.Sub-issues #246 ClusterLogForwarder, #247 FileIntegrity CR + alert, #248 cert-manager Ingress cert, #249 allowedRegistries, #250 SPO namespace move, #251 Identity Provider, #252 master-node auditd MC (rolling reboot)
2026-05-11RHACS Central admin rotation via Vault + ESOIssue #255 / MR !73: RHACS Central admin password is now Vault-sourced. Vault path secret/ocp/platform/rhacs-admin key password → ExternalSecret renders Secret central-admin-password → Central CR adminPasswordSecret consumes it. Rotation procedure is vault put + ESO refresh + rollout restart deploy/central (htpasswd is cached at startup so a restart is mandatory). central-htpasswd.password is now empty by design. The previous central-htpasswd-only path is retired.Init-bundle generation continues via the Central API pattern (POST /v1/cluster-init/init-bundles); operator handbook updated
2026-05-11Spoke argocd-platform-extensions consolidated to single ClusterRoleAfter Wave 2 churn (multiple per-resource ClusterRoles), !46 (and the follow-up !54 cleanup) collapsed argocd-platform-extensions into one ClusterRole covering 16 API groups including core "" serviceaccounts+secrets cluster-wide. The hub Argo stays cluster-admin per ADR 0019; the spoke now has one canonical extension role to grant when a new operator needs reach beyond the default Argo permissions.Pattern documented in the spoke pull-model RBAC reference
2026-05-11Spoke-dc-v6 Lab CA trust wired into the Proxyopenshift-config/lab-ca-bundle ConfigMap created and Proxy.trustedCA.name=lab-ca-bundle set, which merges the spoke-dc-v6 Lab CA into v4-0-config-system-trusted-ca-bundle so the OpenShift auth-operator trusts cert-manager-issued Ingress certs. Applied directly to the cluster as a break-glass to unblock OIDC redirect validation.Needs GitOps backport into clusters/spoke-dc-v6/openshift-config/ so Argo selfHeal doesn’t revert it on the next reconcile
2026-05-11jboss-chat app scaffold + Jenkins live + WSO2 OIDC registered + frontend functional fixSpoke-dc-v6 scaffold for the JBoss EAP managed-domain demo: namespace bank-employees-jboss-chat, GitLab repo wired, Vault secret/apps/bank-employees/jboss-chat/* paths created, WSO2 IS OIDC client registered for the BFF callback. Jenkins jboss-chat-image-build job is live and pushing to app-registry. Initial frontend was broken on the React assets; fix landed mid-day and Playwright login smoke passed for shaikat and zahid.Issue #278 carried forward (#268 → #272 → #278 chain on R6 milestone)
2026-05-11Spoke compliance baselines added — NIST-High + CISAfter PCI-DSS closed, the spoke ran the NIST-High baseline scan and the CIS baseline scan to record the delta against PCI. Numbers captured under reports/pci-dss/ companion artifacts. Spoke clusterissuer validation passed and route-tls-followup confirmed cert-manager-issued certs are admitted across the platform Routes touched in PCI-3 hardening.Future compliance work tracks the deltas as separate baseline issues if the lab ever pursues NIST/CIS attestation
2026-05-11OP-HEALTH1 spoke cleanupRead-only sweep of leftover state from the PCI-DSS hardening day: stale resources removed from spoke namespaces, parallel commit deconfliction notes captured. The op-health1-spoke-cleanup session is the closeout marker for the PCI-DSS week.none
2026-05-11RHOAI mirror saga closeRHOAI mirror went through five retries on this day. rhoai-direct-retry-20260510-233119 continued in tmux on the mirror VM and reached 572 successes / 1 failure (rhaiis/vllm-cuda-rhel9); the previously-problematic RHOAI images now succeed via the direct Nexus path. Final rhoai-oc-mirror-complete session marks the operator-mirror artifacts as ready; RHOAI install itself remains de-scoped per workspace policy.none — RHOAI install is de-scoped until explicitly named
2026-05-11RHOAI direct mirror progress checkDirect retry status check session — captured 572/1 numbers and the previously-problematic images now succeedingnone (status check only); session report reports/sessions/20260511-004259-rhoai-direct-mirror-progress.md

The 2026-05-11 day did not get its own day-wrap issue (unlike 2026-05-10 #159) because the headline event — PCI-DSS chain close — already has the auditor-facing evidence pack as its durable record. The per-session reports + SESSION_LOG.md carry the rest.

2026-05-10 — the big day-wrap

Issue #159 — Session 2026-05-10: day wrap — 7 operators, 16 MRs, 15 issues closed, 2 ADRs

Headline numbers:

MetricCount
Operators installed end-to-end7 (Compliance, OADP, cert-manager × 2 clusters, FIO, SPO, CSO)
MRs merged to platform-gitops main16
MRs merged to opp-full-plat main2 (ADR 0020, ADR 0022 + pre-v6 purge)
Issues closed15
ADRs accepted0020 (PCI-DSS baseline), 0022 (v6 fleet membership)
Project board #10 cards moved to Validated6 of 22
Cluster-breaking incidents (reverted)2 (both IPv6 forms vs OVN-K)

Issues closed on 2026-05-10: #109 PCI-1 day-zero · #110 PCI-2 Compliance Operator + GitOps · #125 IMG-SUPPLY2 ODF dep coverage · #129 SPOKE-GUARD1 · #130 PCI-HANDBOOK · #132 ADR-0020 review · #133 PCI-1.10 etcd encryption · #134 PCI-1.12 OAuth tokenConfig · #136 IMG-REVIEW1 · #138 IMG-CLEAN1 · #139 IMG-CNV1 OpenShift Virtualization mirror · #152 BACKUP-1 OADP Phase A · #156 OPS-V6-FLEET-1 pre-v6 purge · #157 CERT-MGR-1 cert-manager (both clusters) · #158 PCI-3.A operator-presence batch.

Key learnings captured:

  1. XCCDF rule mismatch is a recurring pattern. Compliance Operator PCI-DSS rules have hardcoded namespace / operand expectations. Hit twice on this day (PCI-3.1 audit/OAuth/TLS variables; PCI-3.A operator namespaces + FileIntegrity operand). Resolution path captured under #111 / #158.
  2. IPv6 cannot be host-disabled on OVN-K. Both ipv6.disable=1 kernel arg AND net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1 sysctl break OVN-K (geneve uses IPv6 link-local even on IPv4-only clusters). ADR 0005 amendment authored under #135 → became ADR 0026.
  3. MCO recovery for stuck nodes: oc annotate node <stuck> machineconfiguration.openshift.io/desiredConfig=<good> --overwrite. Documented in runbooks/mco-stuck-node-recovery.md (REP-6 output).
  4. ACM gitops-addon installs a rogue Routes CRD that collides with the aggregated Route APIService and breaks /openapi/v2. Fix: oc delete crd routes.route.openshift.io. Tracked under #153.
  5. REPRO-HUB-1 (#155, MR !12) closes the “hub operators silently outside GitOps” gap by adopting 15 hub catalog/IDMS/ITMS resources into platform-gitops. Future hub-dr-v6 reproducibility now derives from the same source.

Follow-ups carried forward: #158 (FileIntegrity operand + TailoredProfile for SPO/CSO namespaces) · #154 BACKUP-2 (admin: MinIO oadp-backups bucket + cloud-credentials Secret) · #135 ADR 0005 amendment (became ADR 0026) · #111 PCI-3 continued (11+ remaining FAILs at the time) · REP-1 through REP-7 (#144 - #151) site-replication framework.

Other 2026-05-10 session records

Time (UTC)SlugNotes
06:19active-cluster-health-checkRead-only fleet health check
07:05odf-dependency-catalog-gap-fixedODF dep Subscriptions ResolutionFailed=ConstraintsNotSatisfiable resolved by refreshed mirror catalog
07:19platform-admin-handoffCanonical operator-admin handoff doc written
07:39gitlab-operator-guideGitLab operator handoff doc written
08:06spoke-storage-guardrailsDefault storage + bootstrap guardrails on spoke-dc-v6
08:38compliance-implementor-handbookPCI-DSS-aligned phase-chain handbook authored
10:14oc-mirror-operator-reviewFull review of oc-mirror coverage for upcoming operators
10:20retired-mirror-references-purgedStale mirror references purged from active planning docs
11:01openshift-virtualization-mirrorCNV 4.20.11 mirrored (193/193 release, 481/481 operator)
16:22rhoai-mirror-statusFirst RHOAI mirror status check
16:55platform-gitops-refreshplatform-gitops refresh on workspace clone
19:33latest-shipped-issues-refreshShipped-issues board refresh
19:37rhoai-mirror-retry-startedRHOAI mirror retry kicked off in tmux
20:23blog-cloudflare-pages-auditAudit of blog.comptech-lab.com surface
20:30blog-full-platform-sectionBlog full-platform section design
20:36blog-full-platform-overviewBlog full-platform overview started
20:41blog-wiki-handoffWiki → blog handoff
20:57blog-full-platform-removalOld single-page full-platform removed in favor of /docs/ tree
23:09rhoai-mirror-retry-statusRHOAI retry mid-run status
23:32rhoai-direct-nexus-recoveryDirect Nexus recovery path for stuck RHOAI images

2026-05-09 — v6 fleet install day

This day did not get an explicit “day wrap” issue but is the most significant operationally — hub-dc-v6 and spoke-dc-v6 were both installed. The implicit day-wrap is session-closeout report reports/sessions/20260509-112323-session-closeout.md (closed at 11:23 UTC, mid-day) plus the chain of per-session reports that followed.

Closeout: 11:23 UTCScope: developer readiness + Docker runtime handoff; federated GitOps ADR/milestones/gates + GitLab FG-1 execution; workspace submodule cleanup; spoke-dc-v6 install preflight
Key decisionsADR 0014 developer-readiness contract; ADR 0015 federated GitOps repo architecture; Gate H1 added; FG-1 GitLab group skeleton
Follow-ups created#83 FG-1 (open until CODEOWNERS, CE-compatible merge controls, validation pipelines, runner posture, negative access tests complete); #67 developer-readiness gate (open until sample app/template, Trivy/MinIO evidence, secret custody, OpenShift namespace onboarding, end-to-end smoke evidence complete)
Closing instructionResume with the spoke-dc-v6 install-input package; do not boot anything until inputs reviewed and the user explicitly approves

Selected 2026-05-09 per-session records

Time (UTC)SlugNotes
06:37oc-mirror-partial-completePartial completion of oc-mirror recorded
06:45hub-dc-v6-install-preflightPreflight checks before boot
06:53hub-dc-v6-install-workdir-prepInstall workdir staged on ocp-bootstrap
07:11hub-dc-v6-iso-vm-definitionsAgent ISO + libvirt VM XMLs generated
08:00hub-dc-v6-boot-install-completehub-dc-v6 install complete (OCP 4.20.18)
08:15hub-dc-v6-local-connection-cleanupLocal connection cleanup
08:23hub-dc-v6-day1-checkpoint-baselineDay-1 baseline recorded
08:43hub-dc-v6-disconnected-catalog-baselineIDMS/ITMS, mirrored catalogs, default sources disabled
08:55developer-readiness-trackADR 0014, milestone #23, issue #67
08:57hub-dc-v6-openshift-gitops-installOpenShift GitOps operator v1.20.3 installed
09:01developer-handbook-scaffoldmdBook-compatible handbook scaffolded
09:12hub-dc-v6-minimal-gitlab-gitops-bootstrapFirst Argo Application hub-dc-v6-bootstrap Synced/Healthy
09:14developer-handbook-runtime-scopeHandbook expanded to include Docker runtime path
09:28hub-dc-v6-gitops-appproject-hardeningAppProject hardening
09:34docker-runtime-vmdocker-runtime-vm deployed
09:39hub-dc-v6-bootstrap-namespace-baselinebootstrap namespace baseline
10:08federated-gitops-adr-and-milestonesADR 0015 + milestones
11:17spoke-dc-v6-install-preflightspoke preflight
11:31spoke-dc-v6-install-inputsspoke inputs
11:54spoke-dc-v6-install-workdir-prepspoke workdir
13:02spoke-dc-v6-iso-vm-definitionsspoke ISO + VM definitions
13:25spoke-dc-v6-physical-worker-gatePhysical worker boot safety gate
14:14parallel-agent-worktree-isolationParallel-agent worktree-isolation policy → ADR 0017
15:20spoke-dc-v6-base-install-completespoke-dc-v6 base install complete (3 VM + 3 physical)
15:34spoke-dc-v6-odf-preflight-blockedODF preflight blocked on disks
15:52spoke-dc-v6-odf-disk-remediationODF disk remediation
16:16spoke-dc-v6-odf-lso-gitops-drift-auditODF/LSO drift audit
16:27spoke-dc-v6-manual-odf-lso-removalManual ODF/LSO removal (reset before clean install)
16:32hub-dc-v6-management-gitops-resetHub management GitOps reset
16:49management-gitops-pull-model-baselineADR 0018 pull-model baseline
20:10spoke-dc-v6-acm-registrationspoke-dc-v6 ACM-registered to hub
20:15argo-orphan-warning-reviewArgo orphan warning review
20:42acm-openshift-gitops-pull-starterACM + OpenShift GitOps pull starter
22:13spoke-dc-v6-odf-storage-consumer-cleanupODF StorageConsumer cleanup
22:47spoke-dc-v6-odf-csi-mirror-fixODF CSI image mirror fix (#120)
23:27nexus-image-supply-baselineADR 0019 Nexus-only image supply baseline

2026-05-08 — VM platform rebuild day

Closeout report: reports/sessions/20260508-202806-session-closeout.md — the explicit Session Closeout Handoff for 2026-05-08.

Closeout: 20:28 UTCScope: post-Trivy/DefectDojo import-contracts milestone close
Key decisionsGitHub milestone #22 Trivy/DefectDojo Import Contracts created (tracking-only); resume default = disconnected OpenShift mirror gate
Follow-ups createdIf switching tracks: issue #61 “Define Jenkins → Trivy → DefectDojo import contract”
Closing instructionDefault next: resume disconnected OpenShift mirror gate. Alternative track: GitHub milestone #22.
Residual risksGitHub repo cleanup deleted some repos that may still appear in historical docs; audit before relying on legacy workload automation

Selected 2026-05-08 per-session records

Time (UTC)SlugNotes
07:34branch-protection-milestoneGitHub branch protection milestone
08:22simple-test-app-monorepo-repoint-rollbackSimple test app monorepo repoint rollback
09:05descope-dr-clustersDR clusters de-scoped from active GitOps placement
09:55github-source-of-truth-pivotGitHub-first tracking directive
10:04github-repository-secrets-bootstrapGitHub repository secrets bootstrap
10:29gitlab-and-minio-fresh-start-resetGitLab + MinIO fresh-start reset
10:35gitlab-minio-vm-network-scopeGitLab + MinIO VM network scope check
10:43gitlab-zahid-web-login-fixGitLab zahid web login fix
10:47disconnected-rebuild-gotchas-memoryDisconnected rebuild gotchas captured in memory
11:01rebuild-script-importscripts/rebuild/* imported into workspace
11:19ocp-bootstrap-private-network-golden-imageOCP bootstrap golden image + private network
11:39openshift-rebuild-network-ingress-pkiADR 0005 ingress/PKI decision
11:42openshift-rebuild-gateway-cidrGateway CIDR correction
11:59pdns-readiness-checkPDNS readiness check
12:06roadmap-pdns-dns-gatesRoadmap PDNS + DNS gates
12:14github-planning-pack-trackerGitHub planning pack + tracker created
12:25repeatable-rebuild-documentation-modelRepeatable rebuild documentation model adopted
12:34cluster-names-and-base-domainhub-dc-v6 / spoke-dc-v6 / sub.comptech-lab.com approved
12:46pdns-resolver-and-api-cleanupPDNS resolver + API cleanup
12:57hub-topology-decisionCompact 3-master decision for hub
13:05nic-source-rule-ilo-mac-checkNIC source rule + iLO MAC check
13:14allocation-accepted-dns-records-appliedAllocation accepted, DNS records applied
13:28disconnected-mirror-baselineDisconnected mirror baseline (ADR 0019 emerging)
13:44standalone-mirror-vmsStandalone Nexus + oc-mirror VMs decided
14:09mirror-tls-pullsecret-dryrunMirror TLS, pull secret, dry-run
15:10pinned-fast-mirror-imagesetPinned fast mirror image set
15:44expanded-previous-platform-mirrorExpanded mirror dry-run
15:55full-mirror-startedFull mirror download started
16:39hub-dc-v6-install-inputshub-dc-v6 install inputs prepared
17:04first-run-planning-sequenceFirst-run planning sequence tightened
17:11vault-memory-reset-vm-planVault memory reset + VM plan
17:35kafka-kraft-trackerKafka KRaft tracker created
17:46vault-oss-vm-deployVault OSS VM deployed
18:07redis-sentinel-vm-deployRedis Sentinel VM
18:13kafka-kraft-vm-deployKafka KRaft VM
18:17redis-hardening-adrADR 0006
18:24kafka-adr-production-readinessADR 0007
18:40jenkins-single-vm-deployJenkins VM + ADR 0009
18:41signoz-adr-vm-observabilityADR 0010
18:45trivy-adr-vm-scannerADR 0011
18:55wso2-apim-is-vm-deployWSO2 APIM + IS VMs + ADR 0008
18:58monitoring-observability-vm-adrADR 0012
19:18signoz-vm-deploySigNoz VM
19:24trivy-vm-deployTrivy VM
19:43monitoring-observability-vm-deployMonitoring VM
19:45redis-kafka-wal-utility-vm-deployRedis/Kafka WAL utility VM
20:09defectdojo-vm-deployDefectDojo VM + ADR 0013
20:18trivy-defectdojo-import-contractsTrivy/DefectDojo import contracts milestone
20:28session-closeoutDay closeout report

2026-05-05 → 2026-05-07 — pre-rebuild assessment + bridging

These early days set up the workspace conventions and assessed the pre-v6 fleet. Closeout style was still emerging; the explicit “Session begin/close routines” report on 2026-05-05 18:39 UTC formalized the convention.

Date (UTC)Closeout / key roll-upNotes
2026-05-05 06:54Fleet check, spoke-dc GitOps cleanup, hub backup checkFirst workspace session under ADR 0001
2026-05-05 07:20Session logging baselineCadence formalized
2026-05-05 09:24Session handoff and next order updateFirst explicit handoff record
2026-05-05 11:45Finish remediation queueEnd-of-morning roll-up
2026-05-05 18:39Session begin/close routines (session-routines.md)Added scripts/begin-session.sh and scripts/close-session.sh; the close-session helper auto-creates timestamped report stubs under reports/sessions/
2026-05-06 22:08Live focused cluster checkPre-v6 fleet recheck
2026-05-06 23:29Production readiness milestone and phasesMilestone for production readiness
2026-05-07 20:25GitOps and OpenShift mishap checkEarly GitOps drift recovery
2026-05-07 22:15Open Liberty Jenkins Nexus smoke appFirst end-to-end developer smoke

Reading the underlying records

Every entry above is backed by either an issue, a session report, or both. The general pattern:

  • GitHub issues (https://github.com/zeshaq/opp-full-plat/issues/<N>) carry the durable decision, the MR refs, the gate criteria, and the closeout comment.
  • Session reports (reports/sessions/<timestamp>-<slug>.md) carry the live commands, validation output, files-changed lists, residual risks, and next steps. These are the operator-facing detail.
  • SESSION_LOG.md carries a one-paragraph summary per session and is the chronological flat file.
  • CURRENT_STATE.md is the “fast resume” snapshot. It is rewritten at the top of each session; older content moves down. The very top is always the latest session’s headline.
  • TODO.md is the next-order-of-business queue with status against each gate.

The day-wrap pattern (a GitHub issue summarizing the day) is reserved for days that produced enough churn to warrant the roll-up. Most days don’t need one; the per-session reports + SESSION_LOG.md carry the load.

Why the archive matters

Three operational reasons:

  1. Resume without chat. The next operator starts a session by reading CURRENT_STATE.md, TODO.md, the latest few session reports, and any open day-wrap issue. They never need to read chat transcripts to know where work left off.
  2. Audit trail for the framework. Site Replication Readiness (REP-7) is the dry-run gate; the day-wrap archive is the contemporaneous record that any ad-hoc lookups during a replay are framework gaps, not historical noise.
  3. PCI-DSS / compliance evidence. Closeout records carry “no secrets printed,” “live changes vs read-only,” “files changed,” “follow-ups created” — exactly the audit trail PCI-DSS reviewers expect when reconstructing how a control was put in place.

References

  • Day-wrap issue #159 — Session 2026-05-10
  • opp-full-plat/SESSION_LOG.md — 229 entries from 2026-05-05 to 2026-05-11
  • opp-full-plat/reports/sessions/ — 244 timestamped session reports
  • opp-full-plat/scripts/begin-session.sh and opp-full-plat/scripts/close-session.sh — the helper scripts that formalize the cadence (added 2026-05-05 18:39 UTC under session-routines.md)
  • opp-full-plat/CURRENT_STATE.md — fast-resume snapshot
  • opp-full-plat/TODO.md — next-order-of-business queue
  • opp-full-plat/RUNBOOK.md — the standing operating procedures including Session Begin Routine and Session Close Routine

Last reviewed: 2026-05-12