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docs: make the contribution path and directory guides match the source - #4804

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Why

A first-time contributor had no worked example of a change they could check on their own machine, and several directory guides no longer matched what the platform runs. One described a disabled device-management app as running with three database copies, and another said runtime enforcement was off although an opt-in enforcement policy exists.

What

The contribution guide gains a small first change with the exact checks to run, none of which needs a cluster or a credential. The directory guides now say what each folder holds and which apps are active or only retained, and the scripts guide separates checks that are safe to run locally from operator procedures that are not. Documentation only; nothing deployed changes.

Fixes #4783

Add a first contribution that can be checked without a cluster or
credentials, rewrite the directory overviews from the kustomizations,
mark FleetDM as retained and correct its replica description, correct
the Tetragon enforcement and log-export statements, and index the
scripts by whether they are safe to run locally.

Fixes #4783

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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Adds a first-contribution guide and organizes script and operator documentation by prerequisites and operational scope. Expands Kubernetes base and provider guides with layer order, deployment inclusion, and local validation details. Updates component documentation with FleetDM status and configuration, Tetragon event handling and enforcement details, and Cilium terminology.


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The PR remains mergeable with bounded follow-up, but readers could be misled about local file writes, runnable disaster-recovery procedures, deployed apps, and live policy status.

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Description check Passed The description accurately summarizes the documentation-only changes, their purpose, and the absence of deployed behavior changes.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely identifies the main change: aligning contribution guidance and directory documentation with the source.
Linked Issues check Passed The changes address the coding requirements in #4783. CONTRIBUTING.md adds an isolated first contribution with prerequisites and credential-free checks. The updated directory guides describe active …
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Inline comments:
Review comments at @CONTRIBUTING.md:
- Around line 49-50: Update the contribution guidance around the statement that
commands write only temporary build files: clarify that checks may populate the
persistent Go module cache, while generated build artifacts are temporary.

Review comments at @docs/dr/README.md:
- Around line 24-25: Update the statement in the DR documentation to identify
CNPG and OpenBao as operator documents requiring production access, while
clarifying that SPIRE is an unimplemented design rather than a runnable operator
runbook.

Review comments at @k8s/bases/apps/README.md:
- Line 8: Update the sentence in the apps base README to say that an unlisted
folder is not included by this base, rather than making a claim about whether it
is deployed.

Review comments at @k8s/bases/infrastructure/controllers/tetragon/README.md:
- Line 7: Update the enforcement statement in the README to say that no workload
manifest in the repository opts into the policy, and clarify that live cluster
enforcement state is not established by repository manifests.

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k8s/bases/README.md (1)

3-30: LGTM!

k8s/providers/README.md (1)

3-19: LGTM!

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36-41: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The concern is refuted. k8s/bases/apps/fleetdm/helm-release.yaml defines standalone and replica defaults of 2 for both MySQL and Redis through the documented variables. No correction is required.


28-29: 🎯 Functional Correctness

The load-balancer concern is refuted. The production patch targets Gateway/platform and states that Cilium propagates its annotations to cilium-gateway-platform, which the Hetzner Cloud Controller Manager provisions as a Cloud Load Balancer. The README path is accurate.

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The documented Tetragon outputs are supported. The Helm values identify process_exec and process_exit events, stdout export to Coroot’s node agent, and enabled Prometheus metrics. No documentation change is required.

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Evaluation at 385358d130fbb2fac5e638dd23fdc2a55e5503da

This change is documentation only, so there is no runtime surface to exercise. What a reader does with it was tried instead.

Followed as a first-time contributor. At 68703328 a separate reader with no prior context followed the new first-contribution section from the repository root and ran every check the scripts guide lists as safe to run locally. All exited 0:

Command Result
bash scripts/validate-homepage-bookmarks.sh (after adding a bookmark) 27 bookmarks in 8 groups valid
kubectl kustomize k8s/bases/apps/homepage/ builds; the new entry is in the output
bash scripts/validate-embedded-json.sh 3 embedded JSON values parse
go run ./scripts/validate-feature-flags no flags; empty coverage reported
go run ./scripts/validate-talos-kubernetes-compatibility ksail.prod.yaml versions compatible
go run ./scripts/guard-bash-local-initialization scripts .github/scripts 323 files examined, 0 findings
bash scripts/guard-consumer-discovery-conservation.sh 4 consumers match the production render (23 s)
bash scripts/tests/test-guard-consumer-discovery-conservation.sh 0 failures (about 3 minutes)
kubectl kustomize k8s/providers/hetzner/apps/ builds

I also ran the negative case: a bookmark with an http:// link makes the first check exit 1 and name the entry. The example file was restored afterwards.

Checked against the source. The same reader compared each changed statement with the manifests and scripts and resolved all 83 relative links and anchors. It found six inaccuracies in the first version (a check listed as covering a file it never reads, two missing tool prerequisites, apps marked active that cannot run locally, and three over-general sentences). All six are corrected at this head, together with CodeRabbit's four findings and Codex's one. The later commits change wording only; the commands above are unchanged in them.

Not exercised. Forking and opening a pull request; the statement that a first run may download Go modules (the module cache was already populated); and every operator procedure the guides describe (disaster-recovery runbooks, the FleetDM secret rotation, the standby replacement, the emergency-access check). Those need production access and were read, not run. The FleetDM page describes configuration that is not deployed, so nothing in it could be observed running.

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