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+# Forge v1.1 Release Manifest
+
+## Product
+
+**Forge** is Symcrest's managed application hosting service.
+
+Forge provides cloud-native hosting, GitOps delivery, persistent storage, platform services, secure secret synchronization, and operational tooling for customer and internal workloads.
+
+## Release
+
+| Field | Value |
+|---|---|
+| Release | Forge v1.1 |
+| Status | In Development |
+| Release Theme | Observability Foundation |
+| Company | Symcrest |
+| Primary Region | AWS us-east-1 |
+| Operating System | Debian GNU/Linux 13 |
+| Kubernetes Distribution | kubeadm |
+| Kubernetes Version | v1.34.8 |
+| Container Runtime | containerd |
+| Default StorageClass | longhorn |
+| GitOps Controller | ArgoCD |
+| Gateway | Envoy Gateway |
+| Network Plugin | Cilium |
+
+## Forge v1.0 Foundation
+
+Forge v1.0 includes:
+
+- Debian-based Kubernetes cluster
+- kubeadm control plane
+- Cilium networking
+- Envoy Gateway
+- Gateway API
+- NGINX reverse proxy
+- ArgoCD GitOps
+- Longhorn distributed storage
+- Forgejo
+- OpenProject
+- pgAdmin
+- PostgreSQL
+- RabbitMQ
+- Redis
+- MinIO
+- Microsoft Graph email integration
+- AWS Secrets Manager integration
+- External Secrets Operator
+- Cilium network policies
+
+## Forge v1.1 Scope
+
+Forge v1.1 adds the observability foundation:
+
+- Prometheus
+- Grafana
+- Alertmanager
+- Loki
+- Grafana Alloy
+- Longhorn-backed observability persistence
+- Gateway API route for Grafana
+- Initial dashboards
+- Initial observability network policies
+
+## Release Notes
+
+Forge v1.1 establishes the monitoring and logging foundation required before onboarding customer workloads or adding identity services such as Keycloak.