🛡️ IRONVAULT: Strategy & Governance

Sovereign, High-Availability Bare-Metal Infrastructure.

This repository serves as the central Source of Truth for the IRONVAULT project's architecture, strategic mandates, and risk management framework.

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🎯 Executive Vision

IRONVAULT is a mission-critical infrastructure designed to host sovereign services (FinTech, HealthData, and State Systems). By rejecting public cloud dependencies, it ensures total hardware-to-software control, high-availability through 3-node clustering, and immutable security.

🛠️ Core Technology Stack

• Operating System: NixOS (Declarative & Immutable)
• Provisioning: Nix Flakes (Hermetic Reproducibility)
• Orchestration: K3s / Kubernetes (Self-healing Cluster)
• Storage: ZFS / Ceph (Data Integrity & Snapshots)
• Security: LUKS (Encryption at Rest) & WireGuard (Zero-Trust Networking)

🏗️ Architecture Governance

This project follows the ADR (Architecture Decision Record) standard to document every strategic pivot:

• /docs/adr: Rationale behind infrastructure, networking, and security choices.
• /docs/risk-analysis: Threat modeling and mitigation strategies (MRI).
• /docs/compliance: Roadmap for ISO/IEC 27001 and GDPR alignment.

🗺️ Strategic Roadmap

• Phase 1: Governance (ADR-001, Risk Matrix, Repo Structure)
• Phase 2: Core Hardening (NixOS Bare-metal, Disk Encryption, SSH Zero-Trust)
• Phase 3: Cluster Formation (Multi-node Networking, K3s Orchestration)
• Phase 4: Service Deployment (High-Availability Database, Private Cloud API)

🚀 Associated Repositories

• Implementation (IaC): IRONVAULT-infra

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