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TBD-A6: every chart-publishing wave in the 2026-05-17/18 session required a SEPARATE manual collector PR to bump the bootstrap-kit pin so Sovereigns would actually install the freshly published OCI artifact. Without the pin bump, the chart at e.g. bp-catalyst-platform:1.4.166 gets published to GHCR but clusters/_template/bootstrap-kit/13-bp-catalyst-platform.yaml still pins `version: 1.4.165` and fresh Sovereigns silently install the OLD artifact. Manual collector PRs eliminated by this hook (sample from one session): #1676 chart 1.4.162 -> 1.4.163 (Wave 16 collector) #1687 chart 1.4.163 -> 1.4.164 (Wave 17 collector) #1694 bp-guacamole 0.1.21 -> 0.1.22 (TBD-G6) #1695 chart 1.4.164 -> 1.4.165 (Wave 18 collector) #1698 chart 1.4.165 -> 1.4.166 (TBD-E8) #1700 bp-guacamole 0.1.22 -> 0.1.23 (TBD-G4 phase 2) #1706 bp-self-sovereign-cutover 0.1.29 -> 0.1.30 (TBD-C18) #1707 chart 1.4.166 -> 1.4.167 (Wave 24 collector) The fix lives in .github/workflows/blueprint-release.yaml — the single workflow that publishes every chart's OCI artifact. After a successful push + cosign sign + SBOM attest, a new "Auto-bump bootstrap-kit pin" step: 1. Reads ${{ steps.chart.outputs.name }} (e.g. `bp-newapi`). 2. Greps clusters/_template/bootstrap-kit/*.yaml for the canonical ` chart: <name>` line (6-space indent matches every existing slot's HelmRelease.spec.chart.spec.chart shape). 3. If a matching slot file is found, sed-replaces the slot's ` version: <old>` with `version: <new>` and commits + pushes back to main as hatiyildiz <noreply>. 4. If no slot file matches, the chart is an opt-in Application Blueprint (e.g. bp-vllm, bp-temporal) and the step gracefully no-ops. 5. Conflict-tolerant retry up to 3 times with idempotent reset-and-rewrite for the parallel matrix case (multiple charts bumped in the same push). The bot-author commit does NOT re-trigger workflows (GitHub Actions GITHUB_TOKEN convention), so the chain converges in ONE pass: chart bump -> blueprint-release -> publish artifact -> bump pin. No loop. A regression test (scripts/check-bootstrap-kit-pin-sync.sh) asserts the convergence contract: every Chart.yaml in platform/* or products/* whose chart name is pinned in clusters/_template/bootstrap-kit/ MUST have the same version on both sides. The .github/workflows/test- bootstrap-kit.yaml workflow now runs this audit: - On `pull_request`: `--changed-only --base <pr-base>` so a PR is only blocked on chart->pin pairs IT modified. This avoids forcing pre-existing drifts (13 charts as of 2026-05-18, validated via a full sweep against origin/main) to be fixed before any unrelated PR can land. The auto-bump hook will heal those drifts on the next bump of each lagging chart. - On `push` and `workflow_dispatch`: full sweep so post-merge drift is observable on the run summary. Why blueprint-release.yaml is the right insertion point (not each build-bp-<name>.yaml or services-build.yaml or catalyst-build.yaml): - It runs after EVERY chart publish, regardless of upstream trigger. - It already has the canonical chart name + version in ${{ steps.chart.outputs.name }} + ${{ steps.chart.outputs.version }}. - One file changed, one hook covers all 51 bootstrap-kit slots plus future additions. 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.