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shankar0123 082b8cf660 docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 3 — 5 file-based target per-pages 
Extracts the file-based deploy target connectors:

- haproxy.md (107 lines) — combined-PEM (cert+chain+key) deploy with
  haproxy -c validate; multi-frontend + crt-list directory guidance
- traefik.md (105 lines) — file-provider zero-reload deploy; file
  watcher latency notes; mixing with built-in ACME guidance
- caddy.md (100 lines) — admin API mode (recommended) vs file mode;
  admin-API exposure threat model
- envoy.md (112 lines) — file SDS mode (recommended) vs static
  bootstrap; service-mesh interactions
- postfix.md (175 lines) — dual-mode (Postfix MTA / Dovecot IMAPS)
  connector with daemon-specific quirks (STARTTLS chain expectations,
  no shared session cache); Bundle 11 test pins

Index forward-list expanded to enumerate all 10 target connectors
(5 from Phase 4 structural + 5 from this batch) in alphabetical
order.

This is part 3 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 5 files, 599 lines. No content removed from index.md.
 2026-05-05 04:02:25 +00:00
shankar0123 de06141ce5 docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 2 — 8 remaining issuer per-pages 
Extracts the rest of the issuer per-connector deep-dive pages:

- local-ca.md (170 lines) — Local CA self-signed / sub-CA / tree mode,
  CRL+OCSP endpoints, EKU support, MaxTTL enforcement, L-014 file-on-
  disk threat model carve-out
- acme.md (235 lines) — RFC 8555 v2 client (HTTP-01 / DNS-01 /
  DNS-PERSIST-01), ARI per RFC 9773, EAB + ZeroSSL auto-EAB,
  Let's Encrypt profile selection, revoke-by-serial Top-10 fix #7
- step-ca.md (99 lines) — Smallstep JWK-provisioner synchronous
  issuance with MaxTTL enforcement
- openssl.md (157 lines) — script-based shell-out with full
  threat model (what's accepted, what's not, mitigations, V3-Pro
  forward path)
- sectigo.md (98 lines) — Sectigo SCM REST with bounded async polling
- google-cas.md (89 lines) — GCP managed private CA with OAuth2
  service-account auth + IAM-role guidance
- entrust.md (96 lines) — Entrust CA Gateway mTLS-authenticated with
  approval-pending support and mTLS keypair caching
- globalsign.md (122 lines) — Atlas HVCA dual auth (mTLS + API
  key/secret), region-aware base URLs, mTLS keypair caching

Index forward-list expanded to enumerate all 13 issuer connectors
(including the 5 pages from batch 1) in alphabetical order.

This is part 2 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 8 files, 1,066 lines. No content removed from index.md.
 2026-05-05 03:59:35 +00:00
shankar0123 fd94205cfa docs: Phase 4 follow-on batch 1 — 5 issuer per-pages 
Extract the first 5 issuer per-connector deep-dive pages:

- vault.md (128 lines) — Vault PKI synchronous issuance, token TTL +
  auto-renewal loop, MaxTTL enforcement, rotation playbook
- digicert.md (106 lines) — CertCentral DV/OV/EV with bounded async
  polling for vetting workflows
- aws-acm-pca.md (165 lines) — managed private CA on AWS with full
  IAM policy, IRSA wiring, troubleshooting matrix
- ejbca.md (116 lines) — open-source / Keyfactor EJBCA with mTLS or
  OAuth2 auth, mTLS keypair caching, approval-pending guidance
- adcs.md (111 lines) — Active Directory Certificate Services as
  enterprise root via Local CA sub-CA mode, sub-CA rotation playbook

Index updated with forward-list entries and the index-purpose blurb
revised so the index now positions itself as 'navigate from here;
deeper material lives in siblings' rather than 'docs to be extracted
later'.

Each per-page follows the WHAT/HOW/WHY pattern: what the connector is,
how authentication and issuance work, and when to choose this vs an
alternative. Cross-links to the connector index, async-ca-polling
primitive, and adjacent operator runbooks.

This is part 1 of 4 for the Phase 4 follow-on (per-connector page
extraction) tracked in cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-2-restructure-2026-05-04/log.md.

Net add: 5 files, 626 lines. No content removed from index.md (the
index keeps its inline reference; per-pages add operator depth on
top, matching the pattern set by apache/f5/iis/k8s/nginx in Phase 4
structural).
 2026-05-05 03:53:52 +00:00
shankar0123 b452013dd9 docs: Phase 5 — testing-guide.md prune (8268 → 0 lines, content dispersed) 
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/
and the section-by-section plan in testing-guide-tumor.md.

testing-guide.md was 30% of all docs/ content (8268 lines) but was
integration test code written in markdown, not operator documentation.
The audit's tumor analysis disposed of every Part:
  - ~65% DELETE (test cases that already exist in code)
  - ~22% MOVE to inline test code
  - ~8% KEEP-COMPRESSED into focused operator-runbook docs
  - Title + contents + release sign-off ~5% KEEP

This commit ships the KEEP-COMPRESSED dispersal:

  docs/contributor/qa-prerequisites.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Prerequisites" section. Stack boot procedure,
    demo data baseline, reference IDs operators reuse across QA docs.

  docs/contributor/gui-qa-checklist.md (NEW, ~105 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 35: GUI Testing". Manual GUI verification
    pass for release sign-off. 25-row table covering every dashboard page.

  docs/contributor/release-sign-off.md (NEW, ~130 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Release Sign-Off" section (originally 1009
    lines of per-test detail tables). Compressed to a release-day
    checklist organized by gate category: code state, automated gates,
    manual QA passes, release artefact verification, branch protection,
    post-release.

  docs/operator/performance-baselines.md (NEW, ~100 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 39: Performance Spot Checks". Four
    operator-runnable benchmarks (API request handling, inventory list
    pagination, scheduler tick, bulk revoke) with baseline numbers and
    when-to-re-baseline guidance.

  docs/operator/helm-deployment.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 52: Helm Chart Deployment". Operator
    runbook for the bundled deploy/helm/certctl/ chart: prereqs,
    install, four cert-source patterns, verify, upgrade, troubleshooting.

  docs/reference/cli.md (NEW, ~120 lines):
    From testing-guide.md "Part 28: CLI Tool". certctl-cli command
    reference with command-group breakdown, common workflows
    (list/filter, renew, revoke, bulk import, EST enrollment, status),
    output formats, CI/CD integration patterns.

docs/README.md navigation index updated to include the 6 new docs:
  Reference section gains: cli.md, release-verification.md (was added
    in Phase 13)
  Operator section gains: helm-deployment.md, performance-baselines.md
  Contributor section gains: qa-prerequisites.md, gui-qa-checklist.md,
    release-sign-off.md

docs/testing-guide.md deleted. Git history preserves the 8268 lines —
if any specific test case is found missing from inline test code or
the destination docs during future work, lift from `git show
HEAD~1:docs/testing-guide.md`.

Net: docs/ total line count drops by ~7700 lines (28%), from 26,369
to 18,742. testing-guide.md was the single largest doc; pruning it is
the single biggest content-edit win of the entire restructure.

Phase 5 is the last major content phase. Remaining: Phase 4 follow-on
(per-connector page extractions from reference/connectors/index.md),
Phase 15 (WHAT/HOW/WHY remediation), Phase 16 (final acceptance gate).
 2026-05-05 03:38:54 +00:00
shankar0123 fd4eb3b165 docs: Phase 11 follow-on — fix remaining anchor + cross-dir links 
Final cleanup pass after the previous Phase 11 commits. Catches
the anchor-bearing and cross-directory links that earlier sed passes
missed:

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md (3 fixes):
    (./tls.md) → (../../operator/tls.md)
    (./architecture.md) → (../architecture.md)
    (./architecture.md#agents) → (../architecture.md#agents)

  docs/migration/from-certbot.md (1 fix):
    (./quickstart.md#network-discovery-agentless)
    → (../getting-started/quickstart.md#network-discovery-agentless)

  docs/migration/cert-manager-coexistence.md (1 fix):
    (./architecture.md#agents) → (../reference/architecture.md#agents)

After this commit, the Phase 11 sweep is functionally complete for
the operator-facing surfaces. Remaining valid sibling links
(`(./<name>.md)`) within docs/reference/protocols/ and docs/migration/
are intended siblings and resolve correctly.

The remaining open Phase 11 items are:
  - testing-strategy.md → testing-guide.md link, still valid because
    testing-guide.md still exists at top level pending Phase 5
  - any links in docs/compliance/soc2.md and docs/compliance/nist-sp-800-57.md
    if they reference moved docs (low traffic; revisit if Phase 4
    follow-on or Phase 5 work surfaces them)
 2026-05-05 03:32:09 +00:00
shankar0123 a364cd6990 docs: Phase 11 follow-on — fix anchor-bearing + remaining inter-doc links 
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Sweeps the anchor-bearing inter-doc links that the previous Phase 11
sed pass missed (anchors after .md# weren't matched), plus a few
remaining cross-refs in docs/reference/.

Per source file:

  docs/migration/acme-from-caddy.md (1 anchor link):
    (./acme-server.md#certificate-readyfalse-with-rejectedidentifier)
    → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md#certificate-readyfalse-...)

  docs/migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md (3 anchor links):
    Same shape; all (./acme-server.md#...) → (../reference/protocols/acme-server.md#...)

  docs/reference/connectors/index.md (5 walkthrough + reference links):
    (./acme-server.md) → (../protocols/acme-server.md)
    (./acme-server-threat-model.md) → (../protocols/acme-server-threat-model.md)
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-caddy-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-caddy.md)
    (./acme-traefik-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-traefik.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server.md (3 walkthrough links):
    (./acme-cert-manager-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-cert-manager.md)
    (./acme-caddy-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-caddy.md)
    (./acme-traefik-walkthrough.md) → (../../migration/acme-from-traefik.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/acme-server-threat-model.md (1 cross-dir):
    (./tls.md) → (../../operator/tls.md)

After this commit, every grep for old-style `./<old-doc-name>.md` links
returns clean across docs/migration/, docs/reference/, and
docs/operator/.
 2026-05-05 03:31:47 +00:00
shankar0123 19c8fafe84 docs: Phase 14 — Last reviewed line sweep across docs/ 
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Adds a `> Last reviewed: 2026-05-05` line right after the H1 heading
of every doc that didn't already have one (41 files).

This dates the freshness clock for the future Phase 4 per-doc review.
The discipline going forward: when a doc's content gets a meaningful
edit, bump the date. When the date gets old (e.g., >6 months), the
doc earns a freshness-review pass.

Mechanical insertion via awk one-liner, applied to every docs/*.md
that didn't already match `grep -q 'Last reviewed:'`. Files that
already carried the line from earlier Phase 2 work (the navigation
index, the new connector docs, the new SCEP server / legacy-clients-
TLS-1.2 / release-verification docs, and the 5 per-connector deep
dives) were skipped to avoid duplicate insertion.

Net: every doc in docs/ now has a Last reviewed line.
 2026-05-05 03:26:46 +00:00
shankar0123 426760d737 docs: Phase 13 — README rewrite to 250-line target 
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
README went from 457 lines to a target of 250 (operator decision in
Phase 1 conversation). Focus shifts from feature-catalog + landing-page
duplicate to "developer cloning the repo needs orientation + quickstart
+ entry points to docs."

What stayed:
  - Logo + title + badges (~15 lines)
  - Elevator paragraph + 47-day cliff context (3 paragraphs, compressed)
  - Active-maintenance callout
  - Documentation table — restructured from 22 entries linking to flat
    docs/ to ~6 audience-organized rows linking through the new
    docs/README.md navigation index
  - Screenshots grid (4 tiles)
  - "What it does" — compressed from 33 lines of prose to 8 capability
    bullets, each linking to the canonical doc
  - Architecture paragraph — compressed to one paragraph linking to
    docs/reference/architecture.md
  - Quick Start (Docker Compose, Agent install, Helm, container images)
  - Examples table (5 turnkey scenarios)
  - Development commands
  - License paragraph
  - Dependencies block
  - Footer CTA

What got moved out:
  - Cosign verification / SLSA / SBOM section (67 lines) →
    docs/reference/release-verification.md (NEW). README links to it
    in a 3-line "Verifying a release" section.

What got removed entirely:
  - "Why certctl" + "Architecture" + "Security-first" + "Key design
    decisions" prose walls — duplicated landing page + architecture.md +
    security.md content. README no longer wades through 11 dense
    paragraphs.
  - "Supported Integrations" 4 sub-tables (Issuers / Targets / Protocols
    / Standards / Notifiers, ~80 lines of dense per-row marketing
    copy) — content lives at docs/reference/connectors/index.md and
    docs/reference/protocols/. README mentions counts ("12 issuers, 15
    targets, 6 notifiers") with a single link.
  - "Roadmap" section entirely — V1 + V2 history rotted fastest of any
    section; replaced with implicit "see Releases + Issues for active
    work" via the existing footer CTA.
  - "What It Does" 10-subsection wall (33 lines) — replaced with the
    8-bullet capability list, each linking to its canonical doc.
  - CLI section (20 lines of inline command examples) — links to the
    contributor docs.
  - MCP Server section (30 lines of setup) — links to docs/reference/mcp.md.

New surface added:
  - docs/reference/release-verification.md — moved cosign/SLSA/SBOM
    procedure with one expanded "Why this matters" paragraph
    explaining the keyless OIDC trust anchor.

Every docs/ link in the new README verified to resolve to an existing
file. Cross-references from other docs / certctl.io to the deleted
sections (if any) need follow-up Phase 11 sweeps.
 2026-05-05 03:26:05 +00:00
shankar0123 633e440787 docs: Phase 4 (structural) — move connectors.md + 5 deep dives into reference/connectors/ 
Per Phase 1 audit at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.
Phase 4 in the audit recommended a full split of connectors.md (2055
lines) into an index + 27 per-connector pages (12 issuer + 15 target).
This commit lands the structural half of that work; full per-target
page extraction is deferred to follow-up commits.

Renames (all blame-preserving):
  docs/connectors.md         → docs/reference/connectors/index.md
  docs/connector-apache.md   → docs/reference/connectors/apache.md
  docs/connector-f5.md       → docs/reference/connectors/f5.md
  docs/connector-iis.md      → docs/reference/connectors/iis.md
  docs/connector-k8s.md      → docs/reference/connectors/k8s.md
  docs/connector-nginx.md    → docs/reference/connectors/nginx.md

Edits:
  - docs/reference/connectors/index.md gets a top-of-doc note
    explaining the per-connector deep-dive sibling pattern + a forward
    list of the 5 per-target pages.
  - The 5 per-connector deep-dive pages each get a `Last reviewed:
    2026-05-05` header + a back-link to the index.

Deferred to future commits (Phase 4b/c follow-on):
  - Extracting the 12 issuer sections from index.md into per-issuer
    pages at reference/connectors/{acme,awsacmpca,digicert,ejbca,
    entrust,globalsign,googlecas,local,openssl,sectigo,stepca,vault}.md
  - Extracting the 10 remaining target sections from index.md into
    per-target pages at reference/connectors/{caddy,traefik,envoy,
    haproxy,postfix-dovecot,ssh,javakeystore,wincertstore,awsacm,
    azurekv}.md

The pragmatic split makes this Phase 4 work incrementally landable —
each per-connector extraction is a small follow-up commit that doesn't
change the docs/ tree shape further. Cross-references from README.md
and other docs to docs/connectors.md still need fixing in Phase 11.
 2026-05-05 03:14:39 +00:00
shankar0123 e9b15108d9 docs: split legacy-est-scep.md into two purpose-aligned docs 
The 519-line legacy-est-scep.md had a dual personality flagged by the
Phase 1 audit: lines 1-203 were a TLS-1.2 reverse-proxy runbook for
legacy clients, and lines 205+ were the current SCEP RFC 8894 native
implementation reference (mislabeled as "legacy"). Two separate audiences,
two separate purposes.

Split:

  Lines 1-203 (TLS-1.2 reverse-proxy runbook):
    → docs/operator/legacy-clients-tls-1.2.md (NEW)

    Operator runbook for the case where embedded EST/SCEP clients only
    speak TLS 1.2. Covers nginx + HAProxy reverse-proxy patterns, certctl-
    side header-agnostic config rationale, PCI-DSS Req 4 §2.2.5 attestation,
    deprecation timeline. Also got a fresh "What this is" framing.

  Lines 205-end (SCEP RFC 8894 native server reference):
    → docs/reference/protocols/scep-server.md (NEW)

    Generic SCEP server protocol reference: RA cert + key configuration,
    GetCACaps capability advertisement, supported messageTypes, MVP
    backward-compat path, multi-profile dispatch, must-staple per-profile
    policy, mTLS sibling route, Microsoft Intune dynamic-challenge
    dispatcher. Cross-links to scep-intune.md for Intune-specific
    deployment guidance.

Both new docs carry a `Last reviewed: 2026-05-05` line. Internal links
within each new doc updated to the new sibling paths. Cross-references
from other docs to legacy-est-scep.md still need fixing in Phase 11.

Original docs/legacy-est-scep.md deleted (git history preserves).
 2026-05-05 02:55:45 +00:00
shankar0123 3a807ae37e docs: Phase 2 mechanical file moves to subdirectory structure 
Pure git mv operations; no content edits. Internal links remain pointing
at old paths and will be fixed in Phase 11. Per the Phase 1 audit
recommendations at cowork/docs-overhaul-phase-1-audit-2026-05-04/.

35 files moved across 8 audience-organized subdirectories:

  docs/getting-started/ (5):
    quickstart.md, concepts.md, examples.md, advanced-demo.md (was
    demo-advanced.md), why-certctl.md

  docs/reference/ (6):
    architecture.md, api.md (was openapi.md), mcp.md,
    intermediate-ca-hierarchy.md, deployment-model.md (was
    deployment-atomicity.md), vendor-matrix.md (was
    deployment-vendor-matrix.md)

  docs/reference/protocols/ (6):
    acme-server.md, acme-server-threat-model.md, scep-intune.md,
    est.md, crl-ocsp.md, async-ca-polling.md (was async-polling.md)

  docs/operator/ (4):
    security.md, tls.md, database-tls.md, approval-workflow.md

  docs/operator/runbooks/ (3):
    cloud-targets.md (was runbook-cloud-targets.md), expiry-alerts.md
    (was runbook-expiry-alerts.md), disaster-recovery.md

  docs/migration/ (3):
    from-certbot.md (was migrate-from-certbot.md), from-acmesh.md
    (was migrate-from-acmesh.md), cert-manager-coexistence.md (was
    certctl-for-cert-manager-users.md)

  docs/compliance/ (4):
    index.md (was compliance.md), soc2.md (was compliance-soc2.md),
    pci-dss.md (was compliance-pci-dss.md), nist-sp-800-57.md (was
    compliance-nist.md)

  docs/contributor/ (4):
    testing-strategy.md, test-environment.md (was test-env.md),
    ci-pipeline.md, qa-test-suite.md (was qa-test-guide.md)

Deferred to later Phase 2 sub-phases:
  - connectors.md split (Phase 4): docs/connectors.md +
    docs/connector-{apache,f5,iis,k8s,nginx}.md still at top level
  - testing-guide.md prune (Phase 5): docs/testing-guide.md still
    at top level
  - features.md disperse (Phase 6): docs/features.md still at top
    level
  - legacy-est-scep.md split (Phase 7): docs/legacy-est-scep.md
    still at top level
  - ACME walkthrough re-homing (Phase 8): three
    docs/acme-*-walkthrough.md still at top level
  - Upgrade docs archive (Phase 3): two docs/upgrade-*.md still
    at top level

Cross-reference updates (Phase 11) will happen after all moves and
content edits land. Internal links to docs/* paths are temporarily
broken until that phase completes.
 2026-05-05 02:49:28 +00:00