Enclave Ground

premises Where the metal lives, and who provides it metal The boxes themselves — cores, memory, disks frames What turns one box into many zones The logical rooms laid over the metal

Four layers, ground up

Ground read as a stack, bottom to top: the premises it sits in, the metal it runs on, the frames that turn one box into many, and the zones laid over that metal.

Each door opens onto the rooms that make up that layer. Step into any to go deeper, or read the columns first.

Documented first, in the most detail

Ground is the layer everything else stands on, so it's written down before anything else and in the most detail. The full as-built record — every node, spec, and allocation — is the [Hardware Manifest](/governance/charter/), part of the Opplet Charter.

The premises

Where the metal lives and who provides it: the cloud tier hosting the Den, the dedicated and auction boxes behind the cluster, and the private network that joins them.

The ground beneath the ground — site and provider.

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The metal

The boxes themselves: cores, memory, and the disks beneath them — from a pair of cloud VPSs to the three-node cluster and the standalone hosts.

Physical silicon, whatever rents it.

:/metal

The frames

What turns one box into many: the hypervisors and container managers that carve hosts into rooms, and the bare OS where there's no layer at all.

The framing that makes the rooms possible.

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The zones

The logical rooms laid over the metal: who lives where, what each holds, and why a directory sits in the most-protected zone and authenticates outward.

Rooms, not racks — the map of what runs where.

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