Jon Chery
63f3a2b66c
Rebrand ACDL/Agentic Cloud Delivery Platform → Nova across README, docs/, decks (markdown + mermaid .mmd + HTML), pyproject.toml name/description, schema $id URLs (acdl.cloudinit.dev→nova.cloudinit.dev), release.yml title/workflow-name. Nova tagline added to README header + both deck title slides + docs/vision.md (alongside existing North Star, D-106). S&P theme untouched (D-107). New docs/NOVA_MIGRATION.md consumer guide. Data values (env vars, resource names, tag keys, SSM/consumer paths) left for P2-P4. ---ci--- project: acdl phase: 1 milestone: v1.15 status: execute ---/ci---
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# Nova
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> **Nova — The New Dawn of DevSecOps.** Security as a seamless enabler of fast deployments — not a bottleneck, not a "no" department.
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Consumers declare intent; the platform delivers safe production deployment
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through an agentic stack — automatically, safely, and with a complete audit
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trail. A merged change progresses through lower environments end-to-end
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without a platform engineer joining a thread; a non-technical consumer ships
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a production deployment by declaring intent, without authoring a workflow,
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a configuration file, or an infrastructure module.
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## Two repositories
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There are two kinds of repository in the Nova model:
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- **Platform repo (this one).** The source code of the platform. It owns
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`modules/`, `adapters/`, `core/`, `schemas/`, `pipelines/`, `scripts/`,
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and the reusable workflow files. Platform engineers work here. A consumer
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never clones it.
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- **Consumer repo (yours).** A consumer repo contains only its application
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code, one or more contracts (`.acdl/contract.yml`), and one or more CI
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definitions (a thin `.github/workflows/deploy.yml` that `uses:` the central
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reusable workflow, pointing at the appropriate environment + contract).
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The consumer does not write infrastructure modules, workflow YAML, or
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adapter code.
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## Documentation
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| Section | Audience | What it covers |
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| [Consumer Guide](consumer-guide) | Consumers | Step-by-step: create a repo, write a contract, reference the central pipeline, ship a deployment. |
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| [Modules](modules/) | Consumers + platform engineers | The module catalog — primitives and modules, their inputs/outputs, and usage. |
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| [Contracts](contracts/) | Consumers | The contract schema, fields, and a worked sample. |
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| [Pipeline](pipeline/) | Consumers + platform engineers | The central CI + deployment pipeline and its stages. |
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| [Versioning](pipeline/versioning) | Consumers + platform engineers | Module versioning + deploy-pipeline versioning (the `uses:` tag). |
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| [Environments](environments/) | Consumers | Platform-managed environments and the first-run onboarding flow. |
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| [Architecture](architecture) | Platform engineers | The current architecture — layers, cross-cutting concerns, the engine abstraction. |
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| [Vision](vision) | All | The why — the friction the platform absorbs and the north star. |
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## Features
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- **Contract-driven deploys** — a consumer writes a YAML contract; the
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platform resolves it to a stack, compiles it, and deploys it.
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- **Reusable versioned deploy workflow** — consumer repos `uses:` a
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versioned central workflow; no platform code is cloned by the consumer.
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- **Module catalog** — primitives (single resources) and modules (patterns
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of primitives) with self-documented inputs/outputs.
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- **Zero-trust credentials** — OIDC federation + attribute-based
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authorization (ABAC) by default; no long-lived keys in consumer repos.
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- **Security + policy checks** — a security-check stage and a policy-check
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stage run before any infrastructure is created.
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- **Confidence signal** — a computed, explainable score gates promotion.
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- **Evidence outbox** — every deployment writes a hash-chained evidence
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event to an audit outbox.
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- **Shell reproducibility** — `scripts/run_ci.sh` mirrors the CI pipeline
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locally; `scripts/run_platform.sh --check-only` runs offline.
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- **Platform-managed environments** — consumers provide no AWS account,
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VPC, subnet, or state bucket; the platform manages environments.
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## Roadmap
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Planned future features (no dates; tracked in the internal roadmap):
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- **Dynamic module creation from a contract** — an agentic flow where a
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consumer creates a module directly from the contract file (the "composition"
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mechanism, redesigned).
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- **Compliance milestone** — per-module compliance extension points (GDPR,
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SOX, SOC2, DORA) wired into the pipeline.
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- **Additional engine adapters** — beyond the Terraform adapter.
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- **Environment self-service** — a consumer-facing flow to request and
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provision a new platform-managed environment.
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- **HITL gates for qa / prod / dr** — human attestation + higher confidence
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thresholds for higher environments.
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- **OIDC for all platform runners** — zero-trust credentials everywhere.
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## Quick links
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- [Consumer Guide](consumer-guide) — start here if you are a consumer.
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- [Architecture](architecture) — start here if you are a platform engineer.
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- The [README](https://github.com/nova/nova) describes the platform repo.
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> **Note:** The product brand is **Nova** (formerly ACDL — Agentic Cloud
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> Delivery Platform). The Gitea repository name (`continuous-intelligence/acdl`)
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> and the GitHub `uses:` reference (`acdl/.github/workflows/deploy.yml@…`)
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> are unchanged during the rebrand transition; only the product name is
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> changing. See the [Nova migration guide](NOVA_MIGRATION) for the
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> scheduled breaking changes. |