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Credentials: the TerdutServer controller generates <name>-operator-key in
the server's own namespace (owned by it) and hands it to the pods as
TERDUT_OPERATOR_KEY; the server creates its instance-scoped account from it
at every start. A replaced Secret rolls the pods. The bootstrap handshake,
the checkpoint Secret, per-team service accounts and credentials Secrets,
BootstrapStateLost and credentials.deletionPolicy are gone.

CRDs: TerdutServer, TerdutTeam and TerdutAlertSource. TerdutEscalationRule
and TerdutDeadmanSwitch become spec.escalation and spec.deadmanSwitches[]
on the team (matched by name, extras removed); team invites are removed.
A team is created under the identity <namespace>/<name> (external_id), so a
retry, a lost status or a deleted team heal by repeating the same call, and
a display name owned by another team is TeamNameTaken instead of an
adoption. The server resolves escalation usernames (UnknownUser condition).
OIDC claim names and trustEmail are spec fields.

Fixes: query values are URL-escaped; every delete treats 404 as success;
deleting a team no longer depends on allowedTeams consent; a switch or
integration deleted on the server is recreated; unnamed switches take the
CR's name.

Cleanup: scaffold e2e test, AGENTS.md, devcontainer, unused config/ pieces
and Client.Version() removed; DESIGN.md, README, ROADMAP and the demo
(run-demo.sh, manifests) rewritten for the new design. Secret RBAC stays
cluster-wide, now stated in DESIGN.md section 9.

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# Demo
Every CRD this operator reconciles, wired into one working install: one
`TerdutServer`, two `TerdutTeam`s (Platform and Payments), each carrying its
own escalation ladder and dead man's switches, and a `TerdutAlertSource` per
team, plus a script that fires synthetic Alertmanager webhooks at it so you can
watch real incidents appear, escalate and resolve.
This is a demo kit, not a reference deployment: `00-postgres.yaml` runs
Postgres with `emptyDir` storage and a password committed in this
directory. Throw the whole namespace away when you're done.
**Want this fully automated instead of walking through it by hand?**
`./run-demo.sh` does everything below itself, against a fresh (or
already-set-up) `kind` cluster — creates the cluster, installs the
operator, applies every CR here, creates `alice` as the first user, and fires a
few alerts. `./run-demo.sh --help` for the knobs, `./run-demo.sh
--teardown` to tear it back down. The rest of this file is the manual
walkthrough it automates.
## Prerequisites
- The operator and its CRDs installed and running (`make install
deploy IMG=...`, or `charts/terdut-operator` — see this repo's own
README.md/DESIGN.md), pointed at a cluster you're fine creating
throwaway resources in. A `kind` cluster is the easy choice.
- `kubectl`, `jq`, `curl` on your path.
**Apply this into a namespace of its own.** Every object name in this
directory is prefixed `terdut-operator-demo` specifically so applying it
by mistake into some other namespace that already has unrelated objects
doesn't collide with them -- but that only helps if this directory's own
objects don't collide with *each other* across two applies. Applying it
twice into two different namespaces is fine; applying it a second time
into a namespace that already has something else named `terdut-demo` (a
real install from following `terdut-operator`'s own repo along, say) is
exactly the mistake this prefix exists to avoid, and it only works if you
don't override these names yourself.
## Apply it
```sh
kubectl create namespace terdut-operator-demo
kubectl apply -n terdut-operator-demo -k .
```
Listed and applied in dependency order (server → team → alert source), but
you don't have to preserve that order yourself: every controller here
re-queues and waits rather than failing when a ref isn't resolvable yet
(`kubectl describe` shows `Reason: WaitingForServer` / `WaitingForTeam` while
that settles). Platform stays at `Reason: UnknownUser` until `alice` exists:
its escalation ladder names her.
Watch it converge:
```sh
kubectl get terdutservers,terdutteams,terdutalertsources \
-n terdut-operator-demo
```
The operator's own Deployment template now carries a `wait-for-postgres`
init container (same fix as `charts/terdut-server`'s chart as of v0.33.2),
so `terdut-operator-demo`'s pod should come up clean even against this brand-new
Postgres doing its very first boot — no `CrashLoopBackOff` expected here.
Once `terdut-operator-demo`'s own `Ready` condition is `True`, everything downstream
of it should settle within a reconcile interval or two.
## See the web UI
The operator never creates any external exposure for a `TerdutServer` --
that's a permanent non-goal (DESIGN.md §1), not a missing feature, so this
demo just reaches it the simplest way there is:
```sh
kubectl -n terdut-operator-demo port-forward svc/terdut-operator-demo 8080:8080
```
and open http://localhost:8080. See `../networking` for worked examples of
exposing it for real (Gateway API, Istio, or a plain `Ingress`) instead.
### First login
The operator authenticates with a key of its own (the `TerdutServer`'s
`<name>-operator-key` Secret, handed to the server as `TERDUT_OPERATOR_KEY`) and
never creates a user. A person gets in the way anyone does on a fresh
terdut-server: `/api/bootstrap` creates the first user, an administrator,
while no user exists yet:
```sh
curl -sS -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/bootstrap -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{"username":"alice","email":"alice@example.com","password":"a-long-demo-password"}'
```
The response carries an API key, shown once. An administrator can manage any
team, so add `alice` to both teams with it (`POST /api/teams/{teamID}/members`;
`kubectl get terdutteam -o jsonpath='{.status.teamID}'` gives the ids), or just
use the UI's team pages. `run-demo.sh` does exactly this for you.
## Fire some alerts
In another terminal, with the port-forward above still running:
```sh
export NAMESPACE=terdut-operator-demo
./fire-alerts.sh platform high-cpu
./fire-alerts.sh platform disk-full
./fire-alerts.sh payments pod-crash
# Watch it open an incident, escalate per the escalation ladders in
# 02/03-team-*.yaml, and show up on the Platform/Payments team's own incident list.
./fire-alerts.sh platform high-cpu resolve
```
`fire-alerts.sh -h` (or any bad argument) prints the full scenario list.
Each `(team, scenario)` pair is one stable fingerprint, so firing the same
one twice updates the same alert (a real re-fire) and `resolve` closes
exactly that one.
Set `CLUSTER` to send the alert as if it came from one of several clusters:
```sh
CLUSTER=prod-eu ./fire-alerts.sh platform high-cpu
CLUSTER=prod-us ./fire-alerts.sh platform high-cpu # a second incident, not a join
CLUSTER=prod-eu ./fire-alerts.sh platform high-cpu resolve
```
It stands in for a Prometheus external label plus `cluster` in Alertmanager's
`group_by` (terdut-server's README, "Several clusters, one team"): the web UI
then shows the cluster chip on each incident and a cluster filter in the
queue. `CLUSTER` is part of the fingerprint, so resolve with the same value you
fired with. `./run-demo.sh` fires its alerts across `prod-eu` and `prod-us`.
### Dead man's switches
The `deadmanSwitches` in `02-team-platform.yaml` / `03-team-payments.yaml` expect a heartbeat
alert on a 15-minute timeout:
```sh
./fire-alerts.sh platform heartbeat
```
Keep sending that (e.g. a `watch -n 60`) and nothing happens — that's the
point. Stop sending it and, 15 minutes after the last one, terdut-server
opens a `critical` incident on its own, with no webhook involved: proof
the switch is watching for silence, not for a signal.
## Tear down
```sh
kubectl delete namespace terdut-operator-demo
```
The operator's finalizers delete each team on the server (with its
escalation, switches and integrations) before this namespace's objects
actually disappear — give it a few seconds past the `kubectl delete`
returning. A team with open incidents is not deleted until they are resolved.