Jon Chery 3c0ac65dc6 docs(P00): plan v0.9 — reordered 13-phase v0.9 + 19-phase v1.0 plan with grill gates
Records the reordered phase plan (already committed to ROADMAP.md in the
specify stage). v0.9 = 13 phases (P00 deprecation/migration/test-infra
pre-phase + P0a1 path-resolver + P0a2 namespace-CRUD + P0b parser +
P0c schemas+emitter + P01-P10 workloads + P0X ship). v1.0 = 19 phases
(P00 cache + P01 metrics + P01.5 SPIFFE spike + P02 ACL + P03 secrets +
P04 backup + P05 drain + P06 history + P07 recovery + P08 integration +
P09 collector + P10 transactional + P11 lint + P12 verify + P13 ns +
P14a/b/c migration split + P15 README + P15.5 threat-model + P16 final).
All 19 grill binding conditions (C-01..C-19) adopted as phase gates.
Note: C-04 sizing must run before P00 execution; current count is 40
phases across v0.9+v1.0, which exceeds the 35-phase split threshold —
C-04 may require splitting into v0.9 + v0.10 + v1.0.

---ci---
project: orca
phase: 0
milestone: v0.9
status: plan
---/ci---
2026-08-05 16:01:41 +00:00

Orca

Offline/CLI-first orchestration engine inspired by HashiCorp Nomad, far simpler than Kubernetes.

Status

v0.1: Foundation — see .ciagent/ROADMAP.md for the 6-phase plan.

Pillars

  • Simplicity — single binary, minimal dependencies
  • AI-first — CLI designed for both humans and AI agents
  • Offline-first — no cloud dependencies
  • CLI-first — primary interface is the command line
  • Security before features — NFRs ship before new functionality
  • Bug fixes before features — stability is paramount
  • NFRs before features — observability and auditability first

Quickstart

Install (1-liner)

# User-level install (binary at ~/.local/bin/orca, state at ~/.orca)
curl -fsSL https://git.cloudinit.dev/coreci/orca/raw/branch/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

# System-level install (binary at /usr/local/bin/orca, state at /root/.orca)
curl -fsSL https://git.cloudinit.dev/coreci/orca/raw/branch/main/scripts/install.sh | sudo bash -s -- --system

# Pin a specific version
curl -fsSL https://git.cloudinit.dev/coreci/orca/raw/branch/main/scripts/install.sh | bash -s -- --version v0.4.2

Then initialize local state and verify:

orca init          # creates ~/.orca/ (or /root/.orca with --system)
orca version       # prints version info
orca --help        # show all subcommands

Build from source

make build         # Build binary to ./bin/orca
./bin/orca init    # Initialize local state
./bin/orca version # Verify

Update in place

Re-running the installer updates the binary while preserving your config, database, and certificates in the namespace dir:

curl -fsSL https://git.cloudinit.dev/coreci/orca/raw/branch/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
# → "updated orca from v0.4.1 to v0.4.2"

Subcommands

Command Description Status
orca version Print version info Phase 1
orca init Initialize local orca state Phase 1 (stub)
orca status Show orca daemon status Phase 1 (stub)
orca node Node management (join, leave, list) Phase 2
orca job Job management (run, list, stop, logs) Phase 3

Development

make build      # Build binary to ./bin/orca
make test       # Run tests with race detection
make lint       # Run golangci-lint
make fmt        # Format code
make release    # Build + create Gitea release (Phase 6)

Architecture

See .ciagent/ARCHITECTURE.md for full architecture details.

License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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