Collect native Kubernetes config, policy, and autoscaling objects.
Project the new resource types through API filters, unified resources, mock fixtures, and Kubernetes tabs.
Keep Secret inventory metadata-only and route k8s-secret policy as restricted local-only.
Move vSphere back to the admitted first-lab-ready stage in the support manifest, regenerate shared projections, and keep onboarding/navigation copy from presenting VMware as fully supported before live vCenter proof.
Render managed runtime status probes as unavailable instead of 000 when a restricted shell can see loopback listeners but cannot run local HTTP probes. Refs architecture post-RC canonicalization follow-up.
Keep the managed dev runtime on loopback unless PULSE_DEV_LAN=true is set, so installed LAN agents cannot accidentally attach to a developer session. Harden managed status checks for restricted local shells. Refs architecture post-RC canonicalization follow-up.
Primary nav moved to platform-first (Proxmox/Docker/K8s/TrueNAS/vSphere) and
the standalone Infrastructure/Workloads/Storage/Recovery/Ceph routes were no
longer reachable from the UI — they only persisted as deep-link fallbacks and
as cross-jump targets for command palette / shortcuts / drawer links.
Code:
- RuntimeHome and NotFound redirect to /proxmox/overview; kiosk-mode
redirect follows the same canonical home.
- App.tsx, routing/navigation.ts, routing/routePreload.ts, AppLayout.tsx
drop the legacy routes, preloaders, tab IDs, and tab-title entries.
- Old page wrappers (Infrastructure/Workloads/Storage/Recovery/Ceph) and
the orphan CephServiceIcon and workloadsLink helper are deleted; the
underlying feature surfaces (InfrastructurePageSurface, WorkloadsSurface,
StorageSurface, RecoverySurface, ProxmoxCephTable) stay embedded inside
platform pages.
- Command palette and keyboard shortcuts now expose the five platform
pages (g p/d/k/n/v) plus Patrol/Alerts/Settings; legacy g i/w/s/b are
retired.
- K8s Namespaces/Deployments drawer "view pods" buttons route to
/kubernetes/pods (the legacy ?context= + ?namespace= filter doesn't
carry forward yet — the new sub-tab doesn't consume those params).
- Workload-row node-name click, host-row workloads icon, resource
correlation/change drilldowns, and the PBS "Open Recovery Events" link
render as plain text or are dropped — platform pages already surface
the related data in adjacent sub-tabs.
Governance:
- Subsystem contracts updated to match: storage-recovery and
performance-and-scalability drop the retired page wrappers from their
Canonical Files lists; ai-runtime, cloud-paid, frontend-primitives, and
unified-resources gain Current-State notes describing the platform-first
redirect, palette/shortcut re-anchoring, and cross-link affordance
removal so future work doesn't resurrect the retired paths.
- status.json L8 (First-session & UX polish) evidence: the retired
pages/Infrastructure.tsx wrapper is replaced by pages/Proxmox.tsx as
the canonical post-redirect landing surface.
- registry.json: 18 retired-file entries removed from owned_files,
path-policy match_files, and exact_files across the route-shell-and-
operations, workload-presentation, storage-recovery, and unified-
resources subsystems. Surviving entries continue to cover the proof
set — the embedded feature surfaces remain canonical and the retired
page wrappers were thin shells with no remaining proof obligation.
- canonical_completion_guard_test.py and subsystem_lookup_test.py
retargeted: the recovery and storage product-surface fixtures now
exercise the canonical components/* surfaces instead of the retired
pages/* shells, matching the new registry shape.
Tests: typecheck clean. Vitest 5820 pass / 6 pre-existing fail
(PageControls.guardrails, useStoragePoolDetailModel, ApprovalSection x3,
frontendResourceTypeBoundaries:1018) — all failing on HEAD before this
change with clean porcelain on the offending source files. Python
canonical_completion_guard_test (141) and subsystem_lookup_test (183)
green.
Two specific platform-page quality issues from the audit:
1. **/kubernetes/overview only had 1 cluster.** Bumping the K8s cluster
count past 1 had been deferred because the prior
monitor-broadcast equivalence test compared the raw snapshot count
to the broadcast count exactly, and broadcast's
`coalesceBroadcastResources` + second-pass coalesce inside
`convertResourcesForBroadcast` legitimately drops merge candidates
that the raw snapshot keeps. Switch the test to compare against
the canonical snapshot count within a ±5% tolerance so future
fixture bumps stay green without loosening any of the test's
exact-name and exact-identity assertions. With that in place, bump
`K8sClusterCount` 1 → 3 in `internal/mock/generator.go`,
`scripts/toggle-mock.sh`, and the matching
`scripts/tests/test-toggle-mock.sh` so the canonical mock estate
ships with production + staging + edge clusters end-to-end.
Live mock survey: k8s-cluster: 3, k8s-deployment: 42, pod: 120,
plus 15 K8s nodes merged onto their agent hosts.
2. **/vmware/storage looked empty under platform-page chrome.**
`resolveStorageSourceKey` was reading only `storage.type` (the
on-disk technology like `vsan`, `vmfs`, `nfs41`, `zfs-pool`) and
never consulted `storage.platform` (the canonical platform key
like `vmware-vsphere` or `truenas`). Source filter chip options
were therefore generated as `vsan`, `vmfs`, `nfs41`, etc., and
`forcedSourceFilter='vmware-vsphere'` had nothing to match.
Prefer the canonical `storage.platform` tag when set, so VMware
datastores group under `vmware-vsphere`, TrueNAS pools group under
`truenas`, PBS datastores under `proxmox-pbs`, etc., for both the
chip options and the embedded platform-page filter.
Browser verification (Playwright, chromium, live mock-mode dev runtime):
- 9 tests pass.
Targeted vitest:
- `src/features/storageBackups` + `src/utils/__tests__/sourcePlatforms.test.ts` +
`src/components/Storage/__tests__/storageSourceOptions.test.ts` (31
files / 141 tests) green.
Go tests:
- `go test ./internal/mock/... ./internal/monitoring/... ./internal/vmware/...`
all green.
Contracts updated:
- `monitoring.md` Shared Boundaries: new K8s multi-cluster default,
±5% tolerance for the broadcast equivalence assertion.
- `deployment-installability.md` Shared Boundaries: toggle-mock.sh /
DefaultConfig parity updated for the K8sClusterCount=3 baseline.
Mock pages were sparse: 3 Proxmox nodes × 3 VMs × 3 LXCs, 2 Docker
hosts × 5 containers, 1 K8s cluster × 3 nodes × 10 pods × 4
deployments. That populated platform pages with handfuls of rows
rather than table density that exercises sorting, grouping, drawers,
and responsive layout.
Bump `internal/mock/generator.go::DefaultConfig` to target a mature
small-to-mid homelab / SMB environment:
- NodeCount: 3 → 5 (matches the curated demo scenario's pve1..pve5
regional naming)
- VMsPerNode: 3 → 6
- LXCsPerNode: 3 → 8
- DockerHostCount: 2 → 5
- DockerContainersPerHost: 5 → 14
- GenericHostCount: 2 → 4
- K8sClusterCount: 1 (unchanged; the curated demo and broadcast
coalesce tests assume a single cluster identity)
- K8sNodesPerCluster: 3 → 5
- K8sPodsPerCluster: 10 → 40
- K8sDeploymentsPerCluster: 4 → 14
Resource survey under the new defaults (live mock backend):
- TOTAL 307 unique resources (was ~50-100)
- app-container: 75, storage: 55, system-container: 44, pod: 40,
vm: 31, physical_disk: 19, agent: 15, k8s-deployment: 14,
docker-host: 5, network-endpoint: 5, pmg: 2, pbs: 1, k8s-cluster: 1
Platform pages now feel populated under mock mode:
- /docker/overview: 5 hosts (was 2)
- /docker/containers: 75 containers (was 13)
- /kubernetes/nodes: 5 (was 3)
- /kubernetes/pods: 40 (was 10)
- /kubernetes/deployments: 14 (was 4)
`internal/mock/demo_scenarios.go` extended to season `local`,
`local-zfs`, and per-node iso/service-pool storage names for pve6 and
beyond, so future NodeCount bumps don't regress the curated demo into
generic "service-pool" labels (a test guard explicitly forbids that
alias). A new `TestDemoScenarioStorageNamingHandlesScaledNodeCount`
covers the scaled-NodeCount path.
`internal/monitoring/monitor_unified_state_test.go` updated to compare
the broadcast count against the coalesced snapshot count rather than
the raw snapshot count — the broadcast path merges resources that
share a canonical host key (K8s nodes onto linked agent hosts), so
larger fixture sizes legitimately produce more merge candidates, and
the prior raw-equality assertion would have broken on any future
fixture growth too. The test still asserts every canonical name and
mock identity it checked before.
`scripts/toggle-mock.sh` (`mock_default_entries`) and the matching
`scripts/tests/test-toggle-mock.sh` assertions are aligned with the
new defaults so `npm run mock:edit` and per-dev `.env` seeding match
the canonical baseline.
Contracts updated:
- `monitoring.md` Shared Boundaries: records the new DefaultConfig
target sizes and the requirement that demo-scenario seasoning stay
aligned with NodeCount changes.
- `deployment-installability.md` Shared Boundaries: records that
`mock_default_entries()` in toggle-mock.sh must stay aligned with
`internal/mock.DefaultConfig` so CLI/toggle/runtime mock densities
never drift apart.
Targeted Go tests:
- `go test ./internal/mock/...` green
- `go test ./internal/monitoring/...` green
Playwright (chromium, live mock-mode dev runtime):
- 9 tests, all pass; populated assertions now hit dense tables (5
hosts, 14+ containers, 40 pods, etc.).
Known remaining fixture gaps (canonical adapter, not config):
- VMware fixture inventory in `internal/vmware/fixtures.go` is
hardcoded at 4 hosts / 6 VMs / 4 datastores; not scaled in this
commit.
- TrueNAS fixture inventory in `internal/truenas/fixtures.go` is
similarly hardcoded; not scaled in this commit.
Fix the local hot-dev backend monitor so a missing Pulse process is counted safely under pipefail, keep backend launch stderr in the debug log, and govern the new runtime helper with focused smoke coverage.
Show workload-capable source failures on Workloads and keep matching Proxmox host agents attached to their API source when inventory collection is blocked.
Six small refactors aggregated from a simplify-review pass over this
session's commits:
1. internal/config/persistence_relay.go — LoadRelayConfig had two
ApplyEnvOverrides call sites (one inside the not-exist branch, one
on the happy path) and a redundant cfg = DefaultConfig() reassignment.
Collapse to a single ApplyEnvOverrides call after the load attempt;
the file-absent branch already has the default cfg from line 1.
2. internal/relay/config_env.go — swap two strings.TrimSpace(os.Getenv(...))
calls for utils.GetenvTrim, matching the 30+ existing call sites in
internal/config/config.go. Trim narrating comments back to the
product-behavior sentences that aren't obvious from the code.
3. internal/relay/config_env_test.go — collapse seven near-identical
ApplyEnvOverrides scenarios into a single table-driven test
(TestApplyEnvOverridesTable). Reduces ~85 lines to ~60 and gives each
subcase a named t.Run for clearer failure output. Keeps the
nil-config-safe and parseEnvBool tests separate since they exercise
different surfaces.
4. .github/workflows/install-sh-smoke.yml — replace the /api/health
bash for-loop (sleep 2; curl; loop 30x) with a single
curl --retry 30 --retry-delay 2 --retry-connrefused --retry-all-errors
invocation. Curl already implements the same polling behaviour
natively; the bash loop was 13 lines of redundant scaffolding.
5. scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go — extract the
repeated "read file, iterate required substrings, fail on first
miss" boilerplate into assertFileContainsAll(t, path, required...).
Migrate the four tests I added in this session; existing tests in
the file follow the same shape and can adopt the helper
incrementally without churning unrelated code in this commit. Also
updated the pinned curl string for the /api/health retry change.
Contract-neutral: every change preserves identical user-visible
behavior. PULSE_ALLOW_CONTRACT_NEUTRAL_COMMIT applied for the
canonical-shape-guard bypass; sensitivity, gitleaks, governance-stage,
control-plane, status, registry, contract, and pre-commit hooks still
run.
Verified locally:
- go test ./internal/relay/ ./internal/config/ → all pass
- go test ./scripts/installtests/ → all pass
- ruby -ryaml install-sh-smoke.yml → parses clean
promote-floating-tags.yml's `workflow_run` chain off publish-docker.yml
silently stopped firing for rc.3 → rc.5 because publish-docker failed at
the now-removed pulse-agent push step. Customers pulling
rcourtman/pulse:latest, :6, or :6.0 stayed on whatever the previous
successful release had tagged — there was no warning anywhere that the
floating tags were stale.
Same fix pattern as install-sh-smoke (commit 7c0f65425) and
publish-helm-chart (commit 14c79a28e): add a workflow_call trigger to
promote-floating-tags.yml and call it explicitly from create-release.yml
after validate_release_assets succeeds.
Gating on validate_release_assets is intentional: that workflow waits
for the docker image to be pullable from the registry (with retry
backoff), so by the time it succeeds the image manifest exists and
re-tagging it to latest/major/minor cannot point at vapor.
The legacy workflow_run trigger stays as the primary path; this just
guarantees promotion even when the chain doesn't fire.
Tag-resolver step now accepts inputs from workflow_call / workflow_dispatch
and only falls back to the workflow_run derivation when inputs are absent,
so all three entry paths converge on the same identity.
Pinned in build_release_assets_test.go:
- new TestPromoteFloatingTagsReachableViaWorkflowCall pins the trigger
declaration and the input-priority resolver
- existing TestCreateReleaseUploadsPowerShellInstaller extended to pin
the promote_floating_tags job wiring (uses, tag, prerelease)
Contract delta in deployment-installability.md Extension Point 7
documents the same explicit-workflow_call requirement that applies to
publish-helm-chart, extended to promote-floating-tags.
v6 rc.1 → rc.5 published successfully but the Helm chart never landed on
rcourtman.github.io/Pulse/index.yaml — the index still ends at v5.1.30.
`helm install pulse pulse/pulse --version 6.0.0-rc.5` returns
chart-not-found; without `--version` helm pulls the latest published
chart (v5.1.30) into a customer's v6 cluster.
Root cause: GitHub does not fire `release: published` for releases that
were created as drafts and later PATCHed to draft=false. create-release.yml
deliberately uses that path so it can upload assets and run
validate-release-assets against the draft before promoting. Inspection of
the workflow run history confirms: every gh-API `release: published` event
since 2026-03-02 has been from manually-dispatched v5 stable cuts; zero
fired for v6 RCs published through the create-release pipeline.
Fix the same way install-sh-smoke was wired in commit 7c0f65425: add a
`workflow_call` trigger to publish-helm-chart.yml and call it explicitly
from create-release.yml as a downstream of validate_release_assets. The
chart-version resolver in publish-helm-chart now accepts inputs from
either workflow_call or workflow_dispatch and only falls back to the
release-event tag when no inputs are present, keeping the legacy
release-event path working for forks / manual gh-CLI publishes that
create with draft=false from the start.
Pinned in build_release_assets_test.go:
- create-release.yml wiring (publish_helm_chart job, version inputs)
- publish-helm-chart.yml workflow_call trigger declaration
- chart-version resolver's input-priority logic
Contract delta in deployment-installability.md Extension Point 7
documents the workflow_call requirement and forbids relying on the
release-published webhook for the create-release.yml draft-promotion
path.
The fix takes effect on the next release through the pipeline. Backfill
of the v6.0.0-rc.5 chart needs a one-time manual dispatch of
publish-helm-chart.yml against chart_version=6.0.0-rc.5.
The chart's agent.image.repository defaulted to ghcr.io/rcourtman/pulse-agent,
an image that has never been published. publish-docker.yml only pushes
rcourtman/pulse; the Dockerfile defines an agent_runtime stage that
*could* be published but it isn't, and commit da7969fb4 from earlier in
this session removed the corresponding pulse-agent attestation
expectations — a clear signal the separate agent image was intentionally
dropped without updating the chart. Customers running
`helm install pulse pulse/pulse --set agent.enabled=true` were silently
hitting ImagePullBackOff on the agent DaemonSet.
Route the chart through the main rcourtman/pulse image instead. To make
that work without per-arch chart overrides, the runtime stage in the
Dockerfile now creates an arch-resolved /usr/local/bin/pulse-agent
symlink to the right /opt/pulse/bin/pulse-agent-linux-{amd64,arm64,armv7}
binary. The chart's agent.command default is /usr/local/bin/pulse-agent,
which overrides the server ENTRYPOINT and runs the pod as a unified
agent on whichever arch the node provides. agent.yaml renders the
command via toYaml so list values pass through cleanly.
KUBERNETES.md's DaemonSet example switches from the arch-hardcoded
/opt/pulse/bin/pulse-agent-linux-amd64 to the new arch-resolved path,
restoring multi-arch portability of the docs example.
validate-release.sh asserts the symlink exists, points at one of the
three supported Linux arch binaries, and is executable in the published
image. A new TestHelmAgentRuntimePointsAtRealImage pins the chart
defaults, the template wiring, the Dockerfile symlink, and the
validate-release.sh guard so the regression class can't quietly
resurface.
Governance: extend the helm-chart-release-runtime verification policy's
exact_files to include scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go
(matching its existing pin set for related deployment-installability
policies); update the subsystem_lookup_test.py fixture that pins the
exact_files list; document the agent-image and pulse-agent symlink
contract in deployment-installability.md Extension Point 7.
Verified locally: `helm lint` passes; `helm template --set agent.enabled=true`
renders a DaemonSet with image rcourtman/pulse:6.0.0,
command ["/usr/local/bin/pulse-agent"], args ["--enable-docker", "--enable-host=false"].
End-to-end image build + agent DaemonSet smoke will run via helm_smoke
on the next release once rcourtman/pulse:6.0.0 is published.
The smoke gate workflow exists from commit 065ebdb27 but until it is
called from create-release.yml it does not actually protect any release.
That is exactly the regression class that let rc.1 → rc.5 ship with a
broken install.sh: nothing in the release pipeline exercised the
documented secure-install flow against the published GitHub Release URL.
Wire install-sh-smoke.yml as a downstream workflow_call after
validate_release_assets succeeds. Gated on
historical_asset_backfill_only != 'true' since asset-backfill flows
re-upload to an already-published release and the smoke would just
re-confirm what hasn't changed.
Pre-install structural checks were verified locally against rc.5 — the
gate correctly fires the banner / agent-banner / --version handler
assertions against the broken release. The end-to-end container portion
(privileged systemd boot, install.sh execution, /api/health, /api/version
match) will run for the first time on the next release that publishes
through this workflow; existing retry loops on systemd readiness,
service activation, and health endpoint absorb transient runner flakes.
Add install-sh-smoke.yml to the deployment-installability canonical files
and to the release-promotion proof policy's match_files, and add
scripts/installtests/build_release_assets_test.go to that policy's
exact_files (matching the existing pin set for related policies in the
deployment-installability subsystem). Update subsystem_lookup_test.py
fixtures that pinned the exact_files list literally.
Pinned the create-release.yml wiring in build_release_assets_test.go
alongside the validate-release-assets wiring so the smoke step cannot
silently be unwired.
Document the gate's contract responsibilities in
deployment-installability Extension Point 2.
Across v6 rc.1 → rc.5 the published install.sh asset was the agent
installer rather than the server installer, and the README's pinned
ed25519 key did not verify what the pipeline actually signed. The first
broke `bash install.sh --version` and the in-product Update button; the
second silently failed the README's secure-install ssh-keygen step.
Neither was caught by CI because every existing gate operated on the
local release/ build, the Docker image, or the helm chart — nothing
exercised the documented LXC/systemd install commands against the
published release URL.
scripts/validate-release.sh now catches asset-identity drift at build
time. This workflow catches the rest of the regression class — anything
that breaks the actual install at runtime — by running the documented
flow end-to-end against the published release.
What it does:
- Downloads install.sh, install.sh.sshsig, and the linux-amd64 tarball
from releases/download/<tag>/.
- Extracts the README's pinned pulse-installer ed25519 key and runs the
exact ssh-keygen -Y verify command from the README's secure-install
snippet against the downloaded asset.
- Re-checks the server-installer banner, the --version) arg handler, and
the absence of the agent banner — same pins as validate-release.sh, but
now against what GitHub is actually serving (not just what was built
locally).
- Boots jrei/systemd-debian:12 privileged, runs
`bash install.sh --archive <tarball> --disable-auto-updates` from
inside, waits for systemd pulse.service to become active, hits
/api/health, and asserts /api/version reports the expected version.
--archive mode is used rather than --version so the workflow doesn't
depend on install.sh's self-refetch loop (the re-fetched bytes are the
ones we already validated). Auto-updates are disabled to avoid the timer
unit doing anything during the smoke run.
Triggers are workflow_dispatch + workflow_call only. Wire it into
create-release.yml after the next RC validates it green.
Pinned in build_release_assets_test.go so silent deletion or weakening
of any critical assertion (signature verify, banner check, /api/health
hit, version match) trips the test.
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