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Railiance Documentation

Welcome to Railiance — an opinionated framework for Infrastructure-as-Code.
Think of it as Rails for Ops: convention over configuration, productivity first, reproducible everywhere.


🚀 What is Railiance?

Railiance is the self-reliant infrastructure bootstrap for Coulomb and beyond.
From two bare Linux servers, a Git repo, and valid credentials, you can rebuild a full Kubernetes-based environment with:

  • Automated provisioning (Ansible, Helm, k3s)
  • Git-driven state (ArgoCD / Flux)
  • AI-ready automation with OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act)
  • End-to-end reproducibility — no hidden steps, no snowflake servers

🌱 Core Principles

  1. Convention over configuration
    Opinionated defaults remove friction.

  2. Dont repeat yourself (DRY)
    Single source of truth in Git, reused everywhere.

  3. Automated OODA

    • Observe: collect telemetry.
    • Orient: AI interprets state.
    • Decide: human reviews & authorizes.
    • Act: automation applies changes.
  4. Self-Reliance
    Everything can be rebuilt from scratch, with no external dependencies beyond Git + credentials.

  5. Calm Ops
    Systems should be simple, resilient, and predictable.


📂 Repo Layout

  • ansible/ — bootstrap playbooks (OS setup, k3s install, etc.)
  • helm/ — Helm charts for services
  • k8s/ — raw manifests & overlays
  • tests/ — automated validation of infra steps
  • docs/ — documentation & contributor guides
  • tools/ — helper scripts (e.g. repo bootstrap)

🛠 Getting Started

  1. Clone the repo

    git clone <your-gitea-url>/railiance-bootstrap.git
    cd railiance-bootstrap
    
    
  2. Prepare your config Edit ~/.railiance_gitea.conf with your Gitea URL, user, and token. (Never commit this file!)

  3. Run bootstrap Use the playbooks in ansible/ to turn a bare Ubuntu server into a Kubernetes host.

  4. Deploy services Install baseline services via Helm from the helm/ directory.

Incidents

👥 Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md for rules, coding style, and workflow.

🌍 Vision

Railiance is more than infra scripts: its the foundation of self-empowering infrastructure, where humans and AI agents collaborate to manage systems with trust, clarity, and calmness.

From bare metal to resilient clusters, in one repo.