# DriveDesk 70 Percent DevOps Platform Milestone

This document records the public-safe completion model for the DriveDesk
DevOps/platform milestone.

It does not claim that DriveDesk is a finished commercial SaaS product. It
claims that the project has reached a serious DevOps/platform foundation: code,
tests, CI, release gates, recovery evidence, observability,
infrastructure-as-code evidence, GitOps evidence, and a repeatable public
engineering surface.

## Evidence Snapshot

Machine-readable evidence:

```text
docs/public/evidence/platform-maturity-70.sanitized.json
```

Source contract:

```text
infra/platform-maturity/platform-maturity-70.sanitized.json
```

Executable check:

```bash
bash scripts/check_public_platform_maturity_70.sh
```

## Completion Model

The milestone is split into seven equal evidence groups. Each group is worth ten
points. All seven groups are present and validated, which gives a 70-point
DevOps/platform milestone.

| Group | Points | What It Proves |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Core platform foundation | 10 | API, worker, modular monolith, tenants, RBAC, audit, outbox, workflow, and integration primitives exist. |
| Public engineering surface | 10 | Safe demo, OpenAPI schema, generated clients, docs, and release gate are available. |
| CI and release safety | 10 | Changes are tested, promoted, blocked, rolled back, and checked on schedule. |
| IaC, packaging, and GitOps | 10 | Docker, Helm, OpenTofu, Kubernetes packaging, and Git-owned desired state are represented. |
| Observability and SRE | 10 | Health, metrics, logs, alert names, runbooks, and evidence are part of the project. |
| Security and data boundary | 10 | Public/private split, tenant isolation, auth audit, redaction, and secret scanning exist. |
| Recovery and drift operations | 10 | Backup/restore, drift detection, remediation planning, reviewed execution, and recheck are documented and checked. |

## Technology Notes

- Kubernetes is the container platform target. In simple terms, it is the place
  where the API, worker, jobs, and services can run as managed containers.
- Helm is the packaging layer for Kubernetes. It turns the app into a reusable
  deployment package with values, probes, services, and jobs.
- OpenTofu is an infrastructure-as-code tool in the same family as Terraform.
  In this public surface it is used as plan evidence only: it shows intended
  infrastructure shape without applying changes to a real provider.
- GitOps means Git stores the desired deployment state. Tools such as Argo CD
  can compare the cluster with Git and show drift or sync status.
- Prometheus collects metrics, and Grafana is the dashboard layer used to read
  those metrics.

## Verified Outcomes

This records the current DriveDesk engineering state:

- the platform can be built and tested;
- the public version can be exported repeatedly;
- the public export has its own gate and secret scan;
- releases have rollback, canary, and staged-promotion evidence;
- infrastructure has packaging, plan evidence, drift evidence, and GitOps
  evidence;
- scheduled validation has an alerting path and runbook keys;
- public artifacts avoid customer data, private hosts, raw logs, and runtime
  secret material.

## What Is Not Claimed

This milestone is honest about the remaining work.

Not claimed yet:

- finished commercial SaaS;
- mobile applications;
- real provider integrations;
- live production cluster operation as a public artifact;
- paid onboarding and billing;
- long production incident history.

## Engineering Summary

DriveDesk is no longer only an idea or a simple bot. It has a platform
foundation and a public-safe proof chain covering build pipelines,
infrastructure, rollout safety, observability, recovery, security boundaries,
and public/private separation.

This milestone is not the end of the product. It is the point where further work
can move from DevOps/platform foundation toward product maturity.