TechOps Full Court Press — September 2026 Plan of Record [#446]

TechOps Full Court Press — September 2026 Plan of Record

Owner: Charles Wyble (founder) + agent stack. Established 2026-08-26 at PFV.
Discussion artifact — will be synthesized into Redmine tickets as work firms up.

Mission frame

  • 9/1 – 10/1: Full court press. Founder (deep techops expertise) hands off work — what, how, division of labor — to the Hermes-orchestrated COO agent stack (TSGCOO/TSGBOD/TSGCTO screen sessions live on the ultix-streaming VM; agent identity provisioning = Redmine #442).
  • 10/1 – 1/1: De-emphasis / grind phase. Long-tail chores, low human steering, loop-till-green with AWX / Kali / OpenVAS / Wazuh flowing through the sectestbed-* fleet.
  • Redmine version Potential to Kinetic Ready (due 2026-09-30) is the September container.

The four pillars → ticket map

Pillar Tickets (existing) Status
1. Physical plant solid (hardware+software) #341 TEMPer · #372 Tripp Lite · #431 Cisco fan · #414 tsys5 nic2 · #374 PDU renaming · #439 UPS integration · #345/#356 badge · #350/#351 subopi/rack gear · #432/#433/#434 RackRental network · #436 router→Oxidized All dated Sat 2026-08-29 — founder onsite Thu–Sat
2. OAM via AWX as IaC (inventory, monitoring, syslog, hardening) #435 Kuma (ICMP 100% done) · #420 DHCP/PTR (85%) · #449 DNS clustering (60%) · #425 phpIPAM (90%) · #437 switch strings (90%) · #337/375 LibreNMS tooling · #438 Wazuh rebuild · #314 alerts umbrella · #371 AWX TLS · #447 Rundeck · #428 Beszel · #429 SNMP traps · #427 creds · #450 kcpfv · #451 CLI tokens Active cluster — this week’s sessions cleared the foundation (naming, DNS, access, monitoring)
3. k8s in place (RackRental.net + internal R&D) #367 cluster rebuild (25%) · #368 workers join · #206 OpenSearch Blocked on hardware/network from pillar 1
4. CMMC/ITAR compliance → TS/SCI path NEW (see link in replies) Zero footprint — umbrella created today

Division of labor

  • Charles (onsite Thu–Sat, then steering): physical plant execution, approvals, UAT, policy decisions, customer/business interface.
  • COO agent stack (Hermes): intake, coordination, reporting. Agent identity provisioning #442, credentials #440.
  • TechOps agent (this session line): remote execution, audits, loop-till-green automation, ticket/Discourse gardening, Saturday console support (ZOC paired).
  • Q4 grind: security tooling (Kali/OpenVAS/Wazuh) pipelines through sectestbed-* snapshots → preprod → prod via AWX.

Sequencing (Sept)

  1. Week 1: physical batch done+dusted (onsite); OAM foundation tickets closed out (naming/DNS/monitoring work from this week is UAT-ready).
  2. Week 2–3: AWX as the IaC delivery mechanism (playbooks for the OAM cluster), k8s rebuild unblocked.
  3. Week 4: compliance framework stood up (gap analysis → SSP outline), version Kinetic Ready closed out.
  4. Oct 1: switch to grind mode.

Pillar 4 umbrella now exists: Redmine #452 — CMMC/ITAR gap analysis → SSP/POA&M → facility-clearance path. All four pillars now have ticket coverage.