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Nova Onboarding — No-Humans Request Path (v1.16, REQ-182..184)

The v1.16 milestone implements the request path of the no-humans onboarding flow (D-113). A consumer can submit an onboarding request without contacting the platform team; the platform generates an environment binding + (in a future milestone) provisions the AWS resources.

The 3-step request path

Step 1 — Submit an onboarding request (P18, REQ-182)

A consumer submits an onboarding request to the Nova platform Lambda:

# Via the Lambda Function URL (IAM auth):
curl -X POST "$NOVA_LAMBDA_URL" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "action": "onboard_consumer",
    "consumerRepo": "acdl/my-app",
    "requestedEnvironment": "dev",
    "ownerId": "team-x",
    "billingTag": "cost-center-x"
  }'

The Lambda validates the payload against schemas/onboarding.schema.json, then writes a pending row to the nova-contracts DynamoDB table (D-119). No AWS resources are created by this action (D-113).

Step 2 — Generate an environment binding (P19, REQ-183)

The platform (or the consumer locally) generates an environment binding file from the request:

python3 core/onboarding.py --request '{
  "consumerRepo": "acdl/my-app",
  "requestedEnvironment": "qa",
  "ownerId": "team-x",
  "billingTag": "cost-center-x"
}' --out core/environments/qa.json

This produces a <env>.json from the dev.json template, filling in the ownerId + billingTag + a description. The account_id is a placeholder (000000000000) for the platform team to fill with the real account. The generated file validates against schemas/environment.schema.json.

Step 3 — Cross-account role + ABAC tag grant (P20, REQ-184)

The platform authors the consumer deploy-role + nova:owner ABAC tag grant via Terraform:

cd terraform/onboarding
terraform init -backend=false
terraform validate
NOVA_AWS_ACCOUNT_ID=123456789012 terraform plan \
  -var consumer_repo=acdl/my-app \
  -var owner_id=team-x

Offline-proven only (D-114): terraform validate + terraform plan pass; no live apply in v1.16. The live apply (creating the real cross-account role + OIDC trust) is deferred to a future feature milestone (D-113).

What is NOT automated (deferred)

  • Real AWS account/network/state provisioning — the request path generates a binding file with a placeholder account_id; the actual AWS account creation + VPC + state backend is a future feature (D-113).
  • Live cross-account role apply — the Terraform is offline-proven only (D-114); live apply is deferred.
  • OIDC trust policy — the onboarding Terraform uses a placeholder OIDC provider; real OIDC federation is blocked on go-gitea/gitea#36988 (carries forward from v1.1).

See also