k8s-platform/docs/releases/forge-v1.1-manifest.md

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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.