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# Decisions
Every direction chosen, rejected or reversed, newest at the bottom. Rows are never rewritten:
a reversal is a new row, and the old row's status becomes `superseded by #N`. Status is
`active`, `proposed` (not yet confirmed by lab work) or `superseded by #N`.
Rows 1–9 were back-filled on 2026-09-26 from the README, `versions.md`, the phase docs and the
image-builder fixes log; their dates are when the decision was recorded, not necessarily made.
| # | Date | Decision | Alternatives considered | Why | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | 2026-09-24 | Pin CAPI core to 1.12.x ([versions.md](versions.md)) | latest CAPI 1.14.x | CAPMOX v0.9.x is only tested against CAPI 1.11/1.12; caps workload Kubernetes and cluster-autoscaler at 1.35 | active |
| 2 | 2026-09-24 | Management cluster is k3s on a Proxmox VM | kind on a workstation | CAPI controllers and the autoscaler must run permanently | active |
| 3 | 2026-09-24 | Node images built with kubernetes-sigs/image-builder (Ubuntu 24.04, Proxmox builder) | — | upstream-maintained CAPI images | active |
| 4 | 2026-09-24 | image-builder overrides go in a `PACKER_VAR_FILES` JSON | `PACKER_FLAGS` | flags were silently lost when `PACKER_FLAGS` was re-exported ([fixes log #4](image-builder-proxmox.md#fixes-log)) | active |
| 5 | 2026-09-24 | Cilium installed by Helm with `ipam.mode=kubernetes`, pod CIDR `10.244.0.0/16` | ClusterResourceSet CNI flavors; pod CIDR `192.168.0.0/16` | keeps the CNI version under our control; `192.168.0.0/16` overlaps the lab LAN | active |
| 6 | 2026-09-24 | Scale-from-zero via `capacity.cluster-autoscaler.kubernetes.io/*` annotations on the MachineDeployment | infrastructure provider publishing `status.capacity` | CAPMOX does not publish `status.capacity` on `ProxmoxMachineTemplate` | active |
| 7 | 2026-09-24 | Template only on `pv1-1`, `ALLOWED_NODES=[pv1-1]` | template on every node; shared storage | `local-lvm` is node-local and there is no shared storage yet | active |
| 8 | 2026-09-26 | Phase 2: spike CAPLV first; own provider if insufficient; KubeVirt as fallback ([phase-2](phase-2-kvm-provider.md#suggested-approach)) | CAPK + KubeVirt, Metal3, own provider from the start | CAPLV shares CAPI 1.12 with CAPMOX and fits plain libvirt hosts directly | proposed |
| 9 | 2026-09-26 | Phases 2 and 3 are independent and can be done in either order | strict sequence | no technical dependency between the KVM provider and hosted control planes | active |
| 10 | 2026-09-26 | Keep project history in the repo: plans, execution logs, session notes, decisions, prompts, reviews, changelog ([session](sessions/2026-09-26-2355-history-conventions.md)) | chat history only; raw transcripts committed | research repo, reasoning must outlive sessions; transcripts are noisy and may contain secrets | active |
| 11 | 2026-09-27 | Cluster inspection by agents only via read-only ServiceAccount kubeconfigs minted by `.claude/cluster-inspector/make-kubeconfig.sh` (short-lived TokenRequest tokens, gitignored) | admin kubeconfig + permission allowlist; long-lived SA token Secret; RBAC under `configs/` | RBAC (`view`, no Secrets) enforces read-only regardless of which kubectl verb an agent runs — also closes the `kubectl get secret` gap from the history-conventions session; short-lived tokens limit leak impact | active |
| 12 | 2026-09-27 | Management cluster built by one idempotent Ansible playbook, `ansible/mgmt.yml`, run from the laptop ([plan](plans/2026-09-27-0058-mgmt-cluster-ansible.md)) | cloud-init + k3s auto-deploy manifests; bash scripts with guards; OpenTofu + Helm | owner's choice; idempotent modules, one tool; only `ansible.builtin`, charts through k3s's helm-controller so nothing extra on the VM | active |
| 13 | 2026-09-27 | CAPI providers installed by cluster-api-operator 0.28.0 (Provider CRs), cert-manager v1.21.2 pre-installed | guarded `clusterctl init` | declarative; re-apply is a no-op; upgrade = `spec.version` bump; 0.28.0 built against CAPI 1.12.10. Consequence: no `clusterctl init/upgrade/move/delete` | active |
| 14 | 2026-09-27 | Management VM created by the playbook from the pinned Ubuntu 24.04 cloud image (VM 201, 192.168.4.21) | hand-made VM; the image-builder node template | reproducible from the repo; the image-builder template is a kubeadm node image, not meant for k3s | active |
| 15 | 2026-09-27 | `lab1` workers 4 vCPU / **4 GiB** (not 8 GiB); inflate test pods request 1500m / 1Gi so they stay CPU-bound at 2 per worker | 8 GiB workers with 2Gi inflate pods | owner's choice to save hypervisor RAM; scale tests keep the 1 → 3 worker shape ([configs/capi/lab1.yaml](../configs/capi/lab1.yaml)) | active |