foundation/documentation/decisions/ADR_005_repo_topology.md
Andreas Niemann f18676e6b3 chore: scaffold olsitec-foundation mono-repo
Repo topology, baseline overlay, planning docs (PLAN-001/002), ADR-004/005,
and the bootstrap/packages/documentation skeleton. Implementation (T00+) not started.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ADR-005 — `olsitec-foundation` Repository Topology & Module Distribution
**Date**: 2026-06-30
**Status**: Accepted
## Context
`~/work/olsitec-foundation` is the home for the foundation platform. We must decide repo boundaries:
what is one mono-repo vs. separate repos, where shared Pulumi modules live, and how they are consumed
both at day-zero (no registry yet) and in steady state (by downstream projects). Constraints:
- The egg must be recoverable from `{VM + repo + passphrase}` (PLAN-002 §6) → favours **few repos**.
- Shared modules must be **independently consumable** by other projects, hosted via the foundation →
favours **independent versioning/publishing**.
- The module registry is itself part of what the foundation builds → **day-zero registry paradox**.
## Decision
**Two git repositories under a non-git workspace root.**
1. **`foundation/` — a mono-repo** (Bun workspaces) containing `bootstrap/` (the egg Pulumi project),
`packages/pulumi-*` (shared modules), and `documentation/`. This is the DR unit.
2. **`ai-baseline/` — a single small repo** for the cross-project agentic workflow pattern
(ADR-003), re-homed from gitlab.com to foundation-Forgejo.
Downstream consumer projects (the K8s platform, products) stay **outside** this workspace and consume
the foundation's **published** packages.
**Module lifecycle:** Vendor (copy into `packages/`, consumed locally via Bun workspace) → Publish
(`@olsitec/pulumi-*` to the foundation npm registry once it exists) → Consume (downstream switches
imports to the published versions; old `olsicloud4/pulumi/modules/*` frozen then removed).
## Consequences
**Easier**:
- Day-zero needs no registry: `bootstrap/` resolves modules from `packages/*` on disk (resolves the
registry paradox, PLAN-002 §5.2).
- DR = one clone of `foundation` → egg + exact module sources together.
- Shared modules still get independent semver + publishing (semantic-release-monorepo, Conventional
Commits — see memory `olsitec-charts-conventional-commits`), so downstream pins versions.
- `ai-baseline` stays light and on its own cadence for all projects.
**Harder**:
- A mono-repo needs workspace tooling (Bun workspaces) and per-package release config.
- Two consumption paths for a module during transition (local workspace for the egg, published
registry for downstream) — must be documented per package.
## Alternatives Considered
- **One giant mono-repo** (foundation + ai-baseline + everything): rejected — couples the
every-project baseline to the platform's weight and release cadence.
- **Polyrepo** (each module its own repo): rejected — day-zero would need to clone N repos before the
registry exists; DR friction; over-fragmentation at this scale.
- **Keep modules in olsicloud4, reference from there**: rejected — the foundation must own its inputs
for DR-from-nothing; it cannot depend on a Layer-1 repo.
## Confidence
**High** — directly addresses the registry bootstrap paradox and the user's stated intent (vendor a
copy now, host via the foundation later, downstream switches to the foundation-hosted module).
Companion: [000_TOPOLOGY.md](../000_TOPOLOGY.md).