Implementation Log

Current entries

2026-07-26 — Pre-hardware design and validation hardened

Status: completed repository work; no Proxmox hardware claim

Purpose:

• align the Proxmox-side VLAN design with the Cisco lab
• separate guest restore from host reconstruction
• formalize the public synthetic inventory boundary
• make the validator repeatable through unit tests and CI

Actions:

• required a physical or independent console recovery path
• documented access-port-first networking and later VLAN roles 20, 30, 99, 998 and 999
• separated the backup target from the active guest datastore in the topology
• refined privilege-separated API-token, ACL and expiration principles
• limited schema 0.1 to nodes and guests
• hardened timestamp, status, relationship and numeric validation
• added standard-library unit tests and GitHub Actions
• added official Proxmox reference links

Validation:

• committed synthetic sample must pass the validator
• unit tests exercise valid and invalid schema behavior
• GitHub Actions runs syntax checks, tests and sample validation
• documentation continues to state that no live Proxmox host exists

Result:

• pre-hardware planning is internally consistent and executable where hardware is not required
• storage, network-assignment and backup-run entities remain deferred
• the next substantive milestone requires dedicated x86 hardware

Rollback or recovery:

• repository changes are isolated in a pull request and remain reversible through Git history

Public-safe evidence:

• source, tests, CI workflow and documentation only

Open questions:

• final host model and storage layout
• final separate backup target
• exact API paths and ACL roles after live field review

2026-07-21 — Repository foundation prepared

Status: planning only

Completed:

• project scope defined
• hardware criteria drafted
• architecture phases defined
• network design prepared
• storage and backup questions documented
• access-control and API principles documented
• validation checklist created
• synthetic inventory sample and validator prepared

Not completed:

• hardware purchase
• Proxmox installation
• VM or LXC creation
• backup or restore test
• live API collection

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