# 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.