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hermes a6fb61d0ea feat: provision Alpine LXC 136 running Atheos, wired to Gitea
Provisions a LAN-only browser code editor (Atheos) in an Alpine 3.23 LXC on the
scotty PVE node, with armistace/blog cloned and ready to edit. Built via the
AI-DLC workflow; the full process trail is in aidlc-docs/.

Deliverables
- scripts/provision.sh          rebuild the guest from scratch (re-runnable)
- scripts/update-atheos.sh      move Atheos to latest upstream and RE-PIN
- scripts/build-and-test.sh     captures evidence for every acceptance criterion
- files/atheos.conf             nginx vhost (socket path byte-matches the FPM pool)
- files/ssh-config              ~atheos/.ssh/config deploy-key alias
- RUNBOOK.md                    operational guide (START AT STEP 1)
- docs/security-notes.md        credential model + wider-web hardening TODOs
- docs/resiliency-notes.md      what a non-PoC deployment would need

Design decisions
- D1 no git identity is configured by the agent; the operator sets it. Git will
  refuse the first commit until then, which is deliberate (requirement FR-11).
- D2 Atheos pinned to commit f90cd18 (build 611) with a verified tarball sha256,
  plus update-atheos.sh as the deliberate escape hatch.
- D3 nginx :80, web root /var/www/atheos, php-fpm over a unix socket.
- D6 git auth is a per-repository DEPLOY KEY scoped to armistace/blog, not a
  personal access token (a PAT's write:repository scope reaches every repo the
  account can write).

Verified on the live guest (40 checks, 0 failures)
- AC-2  Atheos served over HTTP 200 by nginx+php-fpm; socket paths byte-match
- AC-3  20 posts + themes/cleanblog present; owned by the php-fpm user
- AC-4  all five writable paths writable as the service user
- AC-5  remote targets armistace/blog; deploy key authenticates over SSH
- AC-6  survival proven with a real container restart, marker byte-identical
- AC-8  no python/pelican/pip/make and no DB engine - scope boundary enforced
- FR-11 git identity is empty; deploy key mode 600 owned by the service user

Traps documented in the RUNBOOK (each cost real debugging time)
- The Gitea SSH user is `gitea`, NOT `git` (app.ini SSH_USER=gitea). With `git`,
  sshd answers "Invalid user git" and rejects before reading authorized_keys,
  which is indistinguishable from a bad key.
- The Gitea SSH endpoint is the LAN address (:22 is not forwarded publicly).
- `uptime` and `free` report the PVE HOST inside an LXC without lxcfs, so a
  container that just restarted can claim days of uptime.
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# Requirement Verification Questions — atheos-blog-lxc
**Project**: Alpine LXC running Atheos, wired to Gitea, with `armistace/blog` cloned and ready.
**Stage**: INCEPTION — Requirements Analysis
**Date**: 2026-09-29
Answer each question by writing your choice after the `[Answer]:` tag (e.g. `[Answer]: B`).
Option **X) Other** is always available — describe it after the tag.
---
## 0. CRITICAL FINDING — please read before answering Q1
Reconnaissance found that **`armistace/blog` is a Pelican static site, not a folder of markdown**:
```
src/content/*.md ← ~20 posts (the actual writing)
src/themes/cleanblog/ ← theme
src/pelicanconf.py ← build config
src/Makefile ← `make html`, `make serve-global`, `make github`
requirements.txt ← pelican[markdown], markdown-markup-emoji
```
So there are two different needs, and they need different tools:
- **Atheos** = a browser editor. It edits files and does git (its `codegit` component).
It can edit the `.md`, commit and push — but it **cannot build or publish** the site.
- **Publishing the site** = running `make html` (+ `make github` / `pelican`), which needs
**Python + pelican**, not PHP.
**Q1. How important is it that this box can also BUILD/PUBLISH the site?**
- A) **Editor only** — I'll build/publish elsewhere (CI or another box). Atheos just edits + commits.
- B) **Also include Pelican** — install Python + pelican + make so I can run `make html` /
`make serve` on this box to preview and regenerate the site.
- C) **Also include Pelican AND a local preview server** — so I can click through the built site
from the browser on this LXC before pushing.
- X) Other (please describe after [Answer]: tag below)
[Answer]:
---
**Q2. Does Atheos's git integration need to work non-interactively (credentials pre-wired),
or will you supply them when you first push?**
- A) **Bake in the git identity + let me push over HTTPS with a Gitea token** (I'll give you /
you use an existing scoped token) so push works immediately without a prompt.
- B) **Clone read-only / leave push to me** — set up the clone and git config, but leave the
credential to me (e.g. via SSH key I install myself, per my point 4).
- C) **Use SSH from the start** — configure the remote as `git@git.aridgwayweb.com:armistace/blog.git`
and just wait for the key I'll add.
- X) Other (please describe after [Answer]: tag below)
[Answer]:
---
**Q3. Which PVE node should host the LXC, and on which storage?**
- A) **janeway (.225)** — 3.3 GB RAM free, `extra` storage 874 GB free. (Recommended: roomy.)
- B) **data (.42)** — only ~0.95 GB RAM free and no swap; a 20 GB guest is fine on disk but the
node is tight. (Not recommended.)
- C) **You pick** whatever is healthiest at build time.
- X) Other (please describe after [Answer]: tag below)
[Answer]:
---
**Q4. Should the container be reachable only on the LAN, or exposed via NPM
(nginx proxy manager) with a hostname like `blog-ide.aridgwayweb.com`?**
- A) **LAN only** — browse to `http://<lxc-ip>/`. Simplest, nothing new exposed.
- B) **Add an NPM proxy host** — I get a hostname; you add the proxy host + DNS (you own NPM).
- C) **LAN now, NPM later** — build LAN-only, leave a RUNBOOK section for adding NPM.
- X) Other (please describe after [Answer]: tag below)
[Answer]:
---
**Q5. Extensions (AI-DLC security/resiliency baseline). Your usual choice is to opt OUT for a
LAN-only PoC, and I document the "what to do if this ever moves external" TODOs instead. Confirm?**
- A) **Opt out of both, document the TODOs** (your standing preference).
- B) **Enable security-baseline** too.
- C) **Enable resiliency-baseline** too.
- D) **Enable both.**
- X) Other (please describe after [Answer]: tag below)
[Answer]:
---
## Notes / assumptions I'll carry unless you say otherwise
- **Q6 (implicit, shout if wrong):** "downloads … ready for me to use" = the repo is cloned to a
path Atheos can open as a **project**, on the correct branch, with git identity configured —
not that the container does anything to the blog's remote. The blog stays a separate repo; this
project's repo holds the **provisioning**.
- LXC defaults I propose: **2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB root**, Alpine 3.23, `onboot=1`, unprivileged.
- I will **not** touch `armistace` SSH keys — that's your point 4.