This page explains how the repository was built and why its issue and pull request history is short.

How the project was built

Work was done in stages, each as a pull request with one commit per change and a linked issue.

1. Foundation. Repository files, issue forms, pull request template, contribution rules, license, code of conduct and security policy. Branch protection on main.
2. Design. The architecture document and the first decision records (ADR 0003 to 0012): region, naming, state backend, networking, environments, the first AKS plan.
3. Azure infrastructure. A Terraform folder layout, format and validate checks on pull requests, a state backend created with the Azure CLI, the session network design, and a first cluster that was created, recorded and destroyed.
4. Kubernetes platform. ADR 0013 to 0021, a sample service in Go, a Helm chart, namespaces, quotas and network policies, a GitOps layout, image publish to ghcr.io, a workflow that opens a pull request for the image tag, the network policy and ingress settings, and an Argo CD bootstrap step.

Why the repository was recreated

On 2026-11-06 a pull request branch was found to contain commits with metadata that did not follow the project’s rules. Commits that have been pushed cannot be edited in place. A force push replaced the branch, but the old commits stayed reachable by their hashes, and a pull request timeline links to them. The only way to remove them completely was to create a new repository.

What was kept and what was not

• Kept: every file and the full commit history of main, up to the last merged pull request.
• Not kept: issues, pull requests, review discussion and the open branch. The open branch added the persistent monitoring layer, a Key Vault and the identity for pull request plans. That work is planned again.
• Issue numbers changed. A number such as (#43) in an older commit message refers to the earlier repository, not to the issue with that number here.

Why most epics were recreated

The old issues were lost with the repository. Epics 1 and 2 and most of Epics 3 and 4 were recreated and closed, so the issue list matches the work that is already on main. Epics 5 to 8 and the live cluster session are open, because that work has not been done.