Stack Status
High-level infrastructure health, service status, and selected project milestones. Enough context to show the work without exposing administrative detail.
Security posture: Internal hostnames, addresses, and administrative surfaces are not published here. Administration remains private, while public services enter through a controlled edge layer.
Trust Plane Model
Everything operates within one of four trust planes. Plane membership determines access rules, not role, not convenience.
Core Platform Services
Cross-domain infrastructure supporting shared workloads through controlled access paths.
Domain VM Inventory
Each domain follows a minimum four-service model. Business and personal automation remain strictly separated, and the public inventory uses role-based aliases.
SKALD / Intelligence Layer
A logical layer spanning the infrastructure, not a VM but a system-of-systems. Memory, reasoning, automation, and awareness are independently deployed and coordinated.
Project Milestones
Selected outcomes that materially changed TekForge, its tools, or the way the environment operates.
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ForgeWorx released as a local-first open-source toolkitCompass, Vault, and Ember turn the action, memory, and health boundaries proven inside Norn into a portable toolkit that can be used without carrying personal data or infrastructure-specific state.
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Sportsball released after real tournament useThe offline-first Android bracket manager supports single elimination, double elimination, pool play, and round robin. It ran a fifteen-team event from check-in through the final match before release under the MIT license.
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Norn unified six personal-operations pillarsAtlas, Mimir, Fountain, Shop, Vault, and Ledger now operate as one suite for action, memory, health, procurement, inventory, and finance, with shared navigation across web and Android.
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Duties deployed as a managed daily-support applicationA purpose-built Android application now supports daily tasks, planning, check-ins, and review on a managed device, reducing friction between the plan and the place where it is used.
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UPS-backed graceful shutdown establishedThe primary virtualization host now monitors battery state and shuts workloads down in a defined order before power exhaustion, replacing a full-stack hard outage with a controlled stop.
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Managed network segmentation introducedPublic, administrative, virtualization, server, and untrusted traffic now have explicit trust boundaries instead of sharing one flat network. Routing policy is being centralized at the firewall.
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ForgeMind publishing surface launchedA separate public publishing environment created a home for Open Wavelength while keeping its identity and content distinct from TekForge and other operated domains.
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React2Shell exposure reviewed and ruled outProbe activity against a critical React vulnerability triggered a full review of public services. The traffic was blocked at the edge, and the affected technology was not present in the exposed stack.
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ForgeHound MDM enrolled its first managed endpointSelf-hosted Android management now provides device-owner enrollment, policy enforcement, application delivery, and a custom launcher for a real family support use case.
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TekForge Commons launchedA private, invite-only community space now runs on TekForge infrastructure, giving collaboration and discussion a home without depending on a public social platform.
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Ansible baseline extended across the VM fleetPackages, time synchronization, SSH hardening, connectivity checks, and firewall expectations now share one repeatable baseline across in-scope systems.
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Backup recovery verified through restorationRecovery moved beyond having backup files: a restore test proved that protected systems could be brought back and their primary services validated.