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RAILIANCE-WP-0008 workplan Add friendly landing pages for S5 service endpoints railiance railiance-apps finished codex railiance 2026-06-15 2026-06-15 41b9deea-a935-4372-8916-b3981336f597

Add friendly landing pages for S5 service endpoints

Create a small, reusable landing-page pattern for public S5 application endpoints. The page should give humans a clear next step without changing the machine-facing API contract:

  • UI-backed applications may show a friendly page with a short redirect notice and a visible Continue button to the correct login or application route.
  • API-only services should show a proper no-login informational page at /, with links to health/status/runbook documentation where appropriate.

First rollout target: https://reuse.coulomb.social, which hosts the reuse-surface federation API and intentionally has no browser login UI.

Current Context

RAILIANCE-WP-0007 deployed the reuse-surface Helm release and runbook for reuse.coulomb.social. The release is useful to machines and operators, but a human visiting / should not be left with an API-shaped response or a dead end.

The implementation must preserve the existing CLI/API surface:

  • /health remains suitable for Kubernetes probes and external smoke checks.
  • /v1/* API routes continue to reach the reuse-surface service.
  • Authenticated federation operations continue to use REUSE_SURFACE_TOKEN and must not expose token material in the landing page, chart values, or logs.

Design Constraints

  • Keep the page static and non-secret.
  • Prefer explicit Ingress path routing over changing API semantics when a service has no upstream web UI.
  • Use exact / routing for the landing page when possible, so API prefixes are unaffected.
  • Add noindex metadata for operator/service landing pages that are not meant to be public marketing surfaces.
  • Keep the pattern reusable for later services with login destinations.

Define Landing Page Contract

id: RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T01
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "ca47efdb-ed0e-47bf-90f3-5a78c6861ebf"

Document the endpoint contract in docs/s5-app-onboarding-checklist.md or a small companion doc:

  • API-only service: static informational page at /, no login claim, no token hints, links to health/status and operator runbook.
  • UI-backed service: landing page may auto-forward after a short delay and must include a visible button to the canonical login/application route.
  • All variants must preserve health, API, OAuth callback, and asset paths.

Done when future S5 app workplans can cite a single landing-page rule instead of rediscovering the behavior per service.

Add Reusable Helm Support

id: RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T02
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "44dfe49f-a3f4-4381-a4ca-eb9218099868"

Add a reusable Helm pattern for a static landing page, either as shared snippets or as chart-local templates following one documented convention. The pattern should support:

  • enable/disable flag in values;
  • static HTML content from a ConfigMap;
  • a lightweight static HTTP container or equivalent service;
  • exact / Ingress path to the landing service;
  • prefix routes for API and app paths to the existing backend;
  • optional redirect target and button label for UI-backed applications.

Done when helm template can render both disabled and enabled landing-page variants without changing non-landing deployments.

Implement API-Only Landing Page For reuse.coulomb.social

id: RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T03
status: done
priority: high
state_hub_task_id: "4e90315d-f0f0-49ca-b44f-533c23a44e96"

Enable the landing-page pattern in charts/reuse-surface and helm/reuse-surface-values.yaml for reuse.coulomb.social.

Content should make clear that this endpoint is the Railiance REUSE capability federation service, not a login application. Include non-secret operator links or text for:

  • service purpose;
  • /health;
  • /v1/federated;
  • docs/reuse-surface-on-railiance01.md;
  • noindex metadata.

Done when a browser request to / receives the landing page while /health and /v1/federated still reach the API service.

Add Login-Forward Variant For UI Applications

id: RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T04
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "80c843b2-68d0-4f8a-aba6-39db1a2a6f70"

Prepare the values contract and at least one documented example for services that do have a browser UI. The page should explain that the user is being sent to the application and include a visible button to the configured login or application route.

Done when a future UI-backed app can set only values such as redirectTarget, buttonLabel, and explanatory copy, without editing templates.

Verify, Deploy, And Update Runbook

id: RAILIANCE-WP-0008-T05
status: done
priority: medium
state_hub_task_id: "0fc250a8-8fea-4c88-bd81-ad7ecf6143a1"

Render, deploy, and smoke-test the reuse landing page on railiance01:

  • make reuse-dry-run;
  • deploy with pinned image and non-secret landing values;
  • verify /, /health, and /v1/federated over the public hostname;
  • confirm no secret values appear in manifests or rendered HTML;
  • update docs/reuse-surface-on-railiance01.md with the landing-page behavior and rollback notes.

Done when the public browser experience is friendly and the existing machine-facing API checks still pass.

Completed 2026-06-15: deployed Helm revision 5 to namespace reuse. reuse-surface-landing is Running, HTTP / redirects to HTTPS, HTTPS / returns 200 text/html, /health returns 200 application/json, /v1/federated returns 200 application/json with 12 capabilities, and the fetched landing page contains no token references. Follow-up fix separated the API and landing Service selectors with app.kubernetes.io/component labels and changed ingress routing to explicit API paths (/health, /v1) plus landing fallback /.