# RUNBOOK — Appliance deployment (Felhom-owned box, "bare" hardware) ## 0. Prerequisites (operator, before touching the hardware) 1. **Hub customer exists** (Customers → create): customer-id, display name, domain, email. Note the **retrieval passphrase** (shown once at creation — this authenticates the day-0 artifact/config fetches; you'll type it at a no-echo prompt during install). 2. **Cloudflare**: tunnel token + API token on the customer's config (Infrastructure section) so the generated controller.yaml carries them — the dashboard goes public on the customer domain at first boot. 3. **Day-0 artifacts current** (Configuration page): agent + golden vouched at the intended versions, global floor set. (The install fetches ANONYMOUSLY and verifies the hub-vouched sha256 — no Gitea credential is needed on the box; registry pulls are likewise anonymous since controller v0.112.0.) 4. **Operator keys file** at hand (`/path/to/operator-keys` pubkeys) — appliance boxes should arm operator-signed agent self-update from day 0 (pass `--operator-pubkey-file`); this is what lets you ship agent updates later without touching the box. 5. If the box will run the PBS DR tier (recommended for appliances): plan the PBS storage entry — note the ACL gotcha in Step 3. ## 1. Proxmox VE install (the "no OS" step) - Boot the official Proxmox VE ISO (USB), install with defaults: **ext4/LVM on the system disk** → this yields the `local` + `local-lvm` storages the Felhom defaults expect. Set the root password (it will be ROTATED by the installer to a vaulted recovery credential — don't invest in it), hostname, static IP or DHCP reservation. - Post-install: ensure internet egress + DNS work (`ping felhom.eu`). No other preparation — do NOT pre-create users/storage; the installer owns that. ## 2. Preflight (always, before the real run) Generate the command on the hub customer page (Setup Command → **APPLIANCE** mode) with `--preflight-only` ticked, run it as root on the box: ``` curl -fsSL https://felhom.eu/scripts/felhom-host-install.sh -o felhom-host-install.sh \ && sudo bash felhom-host-install.sh --customer-id --mode appliance --preflight-only [--acl-storages "local local-lvm"] ``` - Appliance mode takes the whole box — no `--cores/--memory` caps (those are the BYO containment knobs). - **ACL gotcha:** the default ACL storage list includes `felhom-pbs`; on a fresh box that storage doesn't exist yet → preflight fails by design. Either pass `--acl-storages "local local-lvm"` now and rescope later when PBS is added (`--rescope-acl`), or configure the PBS storage first. - Preflight is READ-ONLY (installs nothing) and dies with the exact remedy on any finding. ## 3. Install Same command without `--preflight-only`. The retrieval passphrase is asked at a no-echo prompt. What it does (the full host-mutation list is printed and requires typed consent): creates the non-root agent user + narrow sudoers; PVE user/token/roles/ACLs (write only on the named storages; VM privileges only in the `/pool/felhom` pool) + the pool; **rotates root@pam to a strong generated recovery password and vaults it to the hub** (never logged — retrievable from the customer page's Credentials card); fetches + sha-verifies the agent and the golden; provisions the LXC guest (default vmid 9201) from the golden; installs the guest hook; the in-guest controller pulls its own controller.yaml. `--dry-run` prints every mutating command without executing, if you want the paper trail first. ## 4. Verify (all remote, hub-side) Within one report cycle: the host appears under Hosts/Customers with the guest; controller version = the floor; Cloudflare tunnel Healthy; the customer dashboard serves on the domain. The Credentials card holds the vaulted root recovery password. Agent capabilities: expect 56/56 (a `wg-handshake-read` degradation is normal until/unless the WG offsite tier is configured). ## 5. Post-install tiers (each its own flow, in order) 1. **Offsite (restic → Storage Box):** enable on the customer config (shared/dedicated + quota) — the controller self-applies (verify-pin → consume-once → key install) → `pending`. 2. **Escrow ceremony** → see RUNBOOK-escrow-ceremony (auto-confirm flips `pending → escrowed`; offsite runs start). 3. **PBS DR tier (optional but recommended on appliances):** PBS storage entry over the WG tunnel (hub-assigned peer, agent-reconciled `wg-felhom` unit) — see documentation/runbooks/offsite-endpoint.md; then `--rescope-acl` to include the PBS storage. 4. Drive enrollment / NAS shares per the customer's data plan. ## 6. Rollback `sudo bash felhom-host-install.sh --uninstall --customer-id ` — destroys the Felhom guest, removes the agent + config (+ `.bak` siblings), optional `--remove-golden`. The box returns to a plain PVE. ## Roadmap sketch — the true zero-touch ISO (NOT BUILT) The productized appliance image = the official PVE ISO repacked with `proxmox-auto-install-assistant`: an `answer.toml` (disk layout, network via DHCP, a throwaway root password) + a **first-boot systemd unit** that runs the host-install in appliance mode with a per-box provisioning token (the customer-id + retrieval passphrase must NOT be baked into a generic image — the unit should fetch its assignment from the hub using a one-time enrollment code printed on the box/label, which is a small hub feature). Deliverables when we build it: the repack script in `felhom.eu/scripts/`, the first-boot unit, the hub one-time enrollment-code endpoint, and a burn-in checklist. Until then: Steps 1–3 above are ~20 minutes of operator time per box, which is acceptable at pilot scale.