CI run on the ecb8896 push surfaced two real failures rooted in the
2026-05-04 docs overhaul:
1. G-3 env-docs-drift caught two phantom CERTCTL_* env vars I'd
introduced in the Phase 4 follow-on connector pages
(CERTCTL_CA_CERT_PATH_NEW in adcs.md was a placeholder I made
up; CERTCTL_EJBCA_POLL_MAX_WAIT_SECONDS in ejbca.md does not
exist in source). Both removed.
2. QA-doc Part-count drift guard tried to grep
docs/qa-test-guide.md and docs/testing-guide.md, both of which
were renamed/deleted in Phase 2/Phase 5. The Part-count drift
class died with testing-guide.md (Phase 5 prune dispersed its
content); the seed-count drift class is still live but pointed
at the wrong path.
Fixes:
- Removed the QA-doc Part-count drift guard from ci.yml (premise
dead) plus its standalone scripts/qa-doc-part-count.sh peer.
- Retargeted the QA-doc seed-count drift guard from
docs/qa-test-guide.md → docs/contributor/qa-test-suite.md (the
Phase 2 target). Updated both ci.yml inline copy and
scripts/qa-doc-seed-count.sh.
- Updated Makefile qa-stats: target to drop the testing-guide.md
Parts metric (file is gone).
- Updated Makefile verify-docs: target to drop the part-count step.
G-3 was also failing in the second direction (env vars defined in
config.go but never documented anywhere). 16 vars surfaced —
features.md (deleted Phase 6) and testing-guide.md (deleted Phase 5)
had been their canonical home. Created
docs/reference/configuration.md as the new home: a compact
operator-facing env-var reference covering scheduler intervals, job
lifecycle, rate limiting, audit, deploy verify, database,
agent-side, and SCEP profile binding. Added to docs/README.md
Reference table.
Doc-side updates to qa-test-suite.md to reframe its references to
the deleted testing-guide.md (it's now self-contained: the
Part-by-Part Coverage Map IS the canonical Part inventory).
Cosmetic comment-only updates in ci.yml + scripts/ci-guards/*.sh +
scripts/dev-setup.sh to point at the new audience-organized doc
paths (docs/operator/security.md, docs/operator/tls.md,
docs/reference/architecture.md, etc.) instead of the pre-Phase-2
flat layout.
Verified: all 24 ci-guards/*.sh pass locally; qa-doc-seed-count.sh
clean. Net diff: 178 additions / 112 deletions across 13 files.
One file deleted (qa-doc-part-count.sh) and one file added
(docs/reference/configuration.md).
Phase 4 structural (commit 633e440) moved 6 connector files into the
new docs/reference/connectors/ subdirectory but didn't update all
inter-doc references for the new path layout. Phase 11 caught the
high-traffic ones; this sweep gets the rest, found by the Phase 4
follow-on verification pass.
Mappings applied (relative to docs/reference/connectors/):
deployment-atomicity.md → ../deployment-model.md
deployment-vendor-matrix.md → ../vendor-matrix.md
architecture.md → ../architecture.md
est.md → ../protocols/est.md
scep-intune.md → ../protocols/scep-intune.md
async-polling.md → ../protocols/async-ca-polling.md
quickstart.md → ../../getting-started/quickstart.md
demo-advanced.md → ../../getting-started/advanced-demo.md
legacy-est-scep.md → ../protocols/scep-server.md
connectors.md → index.md
Plus prose backtick references (`docs/architecture.md` etc.) updated
to the new subdirectory paths.
Files touched: apache, f5, iis, k8s, nginx, index. 33 line changes.
Full link-check across docs/reference/connectors/*.md is now clean
(0 broken inter-doc references).
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).
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.
shankar0123