docs(platform): document ephemeral lab architecture

- docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md — the full ephemeral-per-student design: two-VM
  production topology (Platform VM / Lab Host VM, correction A), lifecycle,
  data model, networking/egress model (correction B), resource model,
  routing/auth model, security boundaries, failure/recovery behavior,
  migration path from the current single container, and the lab-host
  abstraction (correction D). Status updated to reflect Phase 1 is now
  implemented, pointing at the two docs below for specifics.

- docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md — the Phase 1 build plan: exact Postgres
  schema, service boundaries, API routes, lifecycle state machine, Docker/
  firewall commands, security assumptions, file layout, and a 12-test plan.
  Updated with "Implementation notes" at the points where testing surfaced
  real deviations from the original design: the per-network (not static)
  egress-proxy address resolution, the COALESCE reaper fix, and the
  provisioning-failure cleanup fix.

- docs/ENGINEERING_SOP.md — new §8 mapping the platform/provisioner/ and
  platform/egress-proxy/ components, what's built vs. not (no Gateway, no
  frontend wiring — internal API only), and where identity still lives
  (unchanged: Lab image's own SQLite). Roadmap item 5 (per-student isolation)
  updated from "not started" to "Phase 1 done, not yet cleared for minors."

- README.md — Multi-Student Deployment section rewritten: the old per-student-
  volume persistence model is superseded by the Platform's registry (progress
  already lives outside the disposable container as of the prior curriculum/
  roster work); points at docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md and platform/provisioner/
  for the real architecture instead of describing three delivery modes that
  were never actually built out.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <[email protected]>

.gitignore

@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+node_modules/
+frontend/dist/
+*.db
+*.db-journal
+/data/
+.env

README.md

@@ -127,22 +127,30 @@ Everything runs inside one image managed by `scripts/entrypoint.sh`.
 
 ## Multi-Student Deployment (RootNode Academy addition)
 
-The upstream project assumes one learner, one container. RootNode Academy runs it across three
-delivery modes. **Never publish the raw privileged container** — front it with isolation.
+The upstream project assumes one learner, one container — this image is still exactly that,
+unmodified. RootNode Academy multiplies it into a real platform via a separate provisioning
+layer rather than changing the image itself: see `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` for the
+architecture and `platform/provisioner/` for the Phase 1 implementation (Postgres-backed
+environment registry, per-student Docker networking, firewall-enforced egress, idle reaper —
+see `platform/provisioner/README.md` for how to run it).
 
-| Mode | Provisioning | Isolation |
-| ---- | ------------ | --------- |
-| In-person camp | Pre-spun container per seat, torn down after | Lab VLAN, no public ingress |
-| Live cohort | Container per enrolled student for the session window | Per-student auth at the proxy |
-| Self-paced | On-demand spin-up per session, idle-timeout teardown | Per-user volume + auth + resource limits |
+**Never publish the raw privileged container** — front it with isolation. The one-container
+`docker run --privileged -p 7554:80 ...` command above stays supported for local development
+and scenario authoring; it is not how this gets deployed to real students.
 
-Hardening checklist for shared infra:
+Key properties of the Phase 1 platform (not this image):
 
-- One container **per student** — never share a cluster between learners.
-- Apply CPU/memory limits so one runaway pod can't starve a host.
-- Put authentication in front (proxy-level), never expose `:7554` to the internet.
-- Persist each student's `/data` to a dedicated volume.
-- Idle-timeout + auto-teardown for self-paced sessions to control cost.
+- One container **per student**, its own Docker network, its own firewall chain — never a
+  shared cluster between learners.
+- Progress/identity live outside the disposable container (currently this image's own SQLite,
+  moving to the Platform's PostgreSQL in a later phase) — destroying a student's environment
+  never loses their academic record.
+- CPU/memory/PID/storage limits are enforced per container, config-driven.
+- Egress is restricted to an allowlisted proxy at the firewall layer, not left open.
+- Idle/abandoned environments are automatically cleaned up.
+
+Production topology and what's built vs. not yet: `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` and
+`docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md`.
 
 ---
 

backend/server.js

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, '../frontend/dist')));
 
 const SCENARIOS_DIR = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/data');
 const BUNDLES_DIR   = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/bundles');
+const CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE = path.join(__dirname, '../scenarios/rootnode-path.json');
 const DB_FILE = process.env.PROGRESS_DB || '/data/progress.db';
 
 // ── SQLite progress store ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -55,6 +56,51 @@ function getDb() {
     console.error('Failed to run schema migrations on progress table:', e.message);
   }
 
+  // ── Students / roster ────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+  // ponytail: pick-your-name login, no password — instructor adds students to the
+  // roster, student just selects their name. Trust model is "supervised classroom
+  // device", same as Clever/ClassLink instant login. Upgrade to per-student PIN
+  // if remote/unsupervised access is ever needed.
+  _db.exec(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS students (
+      student_id     TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+      display_name   TEXT NOT NULL,
+      cohort         TEXT NOT NULL,
+      created_at     TEXT NOT NULL,
+      last_active_at TEXT
+    )
+  `);
+
+  // Migrate progress table to a per-student composite key (student_id, scenario_id).
+  // SQLite can't ALTER a primary key, so this rebuilds the table. Rows that predate
+  // student accounts are kept under student_id='unassigned' rather than dropped.
+  try {
+    const progressCols = _db.prepare("PRAGMA table_info(progress)").all().map(c => c.name);
+    if (!progressCols.includes('student_id')) {
+      console.log('Migrating progress table to per-student schema...');
+      _db.exec(`
+        CREATE TABLE progress_new (
+          student_id         TEXT NOT NULL DEFAULT 'unassigned',
+          scenario_id        TEXT NOT NULL,
+          status              TEXT,
+          attempts            INTEGER DEFAULT 0,
+          last_validated      TEXT,
+          completed_at        TEXT,
+          started_at          TEXT,
+          notes               TEXT,
+          time_spent_seconds  INTEGER,
+          PRIMARY KEY (student_id, scenario_id)
+        );
+        INSERT INTO progress_new (student_id, scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
+          SELECT 'unassigned', scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds FROM progress;
+        DROP TABLE progress;
+        ALTER TABLE progress_new RENAME TO progress;
+      `);
+    }
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error('Failed to migrate progress table to per-student schema:', e.message);
+  }
+
   _db.exec(`
     CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS sessions (
       id            TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
@@ -75,6 +121,9 @@ function getDb() {
     if (!cols.includes('scenario_ids')) {
       _db.exec(`ALTER TABLE sessions ADD COLUMN scenario_ids TEXT`);
     }
+    if (!cols.includes('student_id')) {
+      _db.exec(`ALTER TABLE sessions ADD COLUMN student_id TEXT`);
+    }
   } catch (e) {
     console.error('Failed to migrate sessions table:', e.message);
   }
@@ -94,9 +143,26 @@ function getDb() {
   return _db;
 }
 
-function loadProgress() {
+// Resolves the acting student for a request. No session tokens yet (see students
+// table comment) — frontend just sends back the student_id it got from /api/login.
+// Falls back to 'unassigned' so the app still works before any student logs in
+// (dev/test use, and pre-migration progress lives there too).
+function getStudentId(req) {
+  return req.get('x-student-id') || req.query.studentId || 'unassigned';
+}
+
+function touchStudent(studentId) {
+  if (!studentId || studentId === 'unassigned') return;
   try {
-    const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT * FROM progress').all();
+    getDb().prepare(`UPDATE students SET last_active_at = datetime('now') WHERE student_id = ?`).run(studentId);
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error('Failed to update student last_active_at:', e.message);
+  }
+}
+
+function loadProgress(studentId = 'unassigned') {
+  try {
+    const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT * FROM progress WHERE student_id = ?').all(studentId);
     return Object.fromEntries(rows.map(r => [r.scenario_id, {
       status: r.status,
       attempts: r.attempts,
@@ -109,13 +175,13 @@ function loadProgress() {
   } catch { return {}; }
 }
 
-function saveProgress(progress) {
+function saveProgress(studentId, progress) {
   try {
     const db = getDb();
     const upsert = db.prepare(`
-      INSERT INTO progress (scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
-      VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
-      ON CONFLICT(scenario_id) DO UPDATE SET
+      INSERT INTO progress (student_id, scenario_id, status, attempts, last_validated, completed_at, started_at, notes, time_spent_seconds)
+      VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
+      ON CONFLICT(student_id, scenario_id) DO UPDATE SET
         status = excluded.status,
         attempts = excluded.attempts,
         last_validated = excluded.last_validated,
@@ -127,6 +193,7 @@ function saveProgress(progress) {
     const tx = db.transaction((entries) => {
       for (const [id, p] of entries) {
         upsert.run(
+          studentId,
           id,
           p.status || null,
           p.attempts || 0,
@@ -153,11 +220,15 @@ function loadJsonDir(dir) {
 
 let scenariosCache = [];
 let bundlesCache = [];
+let curriculumPathCache = null;
 
 function reloadCache() {
   try {
     scenariosCache = loadJsonDir(SCENARIOS_DIR);
     bundlesCache = loadJsonDir(BUNDLES_DIR);
+    curriculumPathCache = fs.existsSync(CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE)
+      ? JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(CURRICULUM_PATH_FILE, 'utf8'))
+      : null;
     console.log(`Loaded ${scenariosCache.length} scenarios and ${bundlesCache.length} bundles into cache.`);
   } catch (e) {
     console.error('Failed to reload cache:', e.message);
@@ -175,6 +246,10 @@ function loadBundles() {
   return bundlesCache;
 }
 
+function loadCurriculumPath() {
+  return curriculumPathCache;
+}
+
 async function runCommand(cmd, timeoutMs = 15000) {
   try {
     const { stdout } = await execAsync(cmd, {
@@ -223,31 +298,77 @@ function refreshPrompt(delayMs = 80) {
 
 // ── Routes ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+// ── Roster / student login ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+// POST /api/roster — instructor adds a student to a cohort
+app.post('/api/roster', (req, res) => {
+  const { display_name, cohort } = req.body;
+  if (!display_name || !cohort) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'display_name and cohort are required' });
+  }
+  try {
+    const db = getDb();
+    const count = db.prepare('SELECT COUNT(*) AS n FROM students').get().n;
+    const studentId = `student-${String(count + 1).padStart(3, '0')}`;
+    db.prepare(`INSERT INTO students (student_id, display_name, cohort, created_at) VALUES (?, ?, ?, datetime('now'))`)
+      .run(studentId, display_name.trim(), cohort.trim());
+    res.json({ student_id: studentId, display_name: display_name.trim(), cohort: cohort.trim() });
+  } catch (e) {
+    res.status(500).json({ error: e.message });
+  }
+});
+
+// GET /api/roster/cohorts — distinct cohort names, for the login cohort picker
+app.get('/api/roster/cohorts', (req, res) => {
+  const rows = getDb().prepare('SELECT DISTINCT cohort FROM students ORDER BY cohort').all();
+  res.json(rows.map(r => r.cohort));
+});
+
+// GET /api/roster?cohort=root-fall-2026 — student names for the pick-your-name dropdown
+app.get('/api/roster', (req, res) => {
+  const { cohort } = req.query;
+  const db = getDb();
+  const rows = cohort
+    ? db.prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort, last_active_at FROM students WHERE cohort = ? ORDER BY display_name').all(cohort)
+    : db.prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort, last_active_at FROM students ORDER BY cohort, display_name').all();
+  res.json(rows);
+});
+
+// POST /api/login — student picks their name; no password (see students table comment)
+app.post('/api/login', (req, res) => {
+  const { student_id } = req.body;
+  const student = getDb().prepare('SELECT student_id, display_name, cohort FROM students WHERE student_id = ?').get(student_id);
+  if (!student) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Student not found' });
+  touchStudent(student.student_id);
+  res.json(student);
+});
+
 // POST /api/progress/reset — reset progress for scenario | category | bundle
 app.post('/api/progress/reset', (req, res) => {
   const { scope, scenarioId, category, bundleId } = req.body;
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
   const db = getDb();
   const resetProgressStmt = db.prepare(`
-    UPDATE progress 
-    SET status = 'not_started', 
-        attempts = 0, 
-        completed_at = NULL, 
-        last_validated = NULL 
-    WHERE scenario_id = ?
+    UPDATE progress
+    SET status = 'not_started',
+        attempts = 0,
+        completed_at = NULL,
+        last_validated = NULL
+    WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?
   `);
 
   try {
     if (scope === 'scenario') {
-      resetProgressStmt.run(scenarioId);
+      resetProgressStmt.run(scenarioId, studentId);
     } else if (scope === 'category') {
       const scenarios = loadScenarios();
       const ids = scenarios.filter(s => s.category === category).map(s => s.id);
-      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id)));
+      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id, studentId)));
       tx(ids);
     } else if (scope === 'bundle') {
       const bundle = loadBundles().find(b => b.id === bundleId);
       if (!bundle) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Bundle not found' });
-      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id)));
+      const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => resetProgressStmt.run(id, studentId)));
       tx(bundle.scenario_ids);
     } else {
       return res.status(400).json({ error: 'Invalid scope' });
@@ -285,9 +406,10 @@ app.post('/api/sessions', (req, res) => {
   db.prepare(`UPDATE sessions SET status='abandoned', submitted_at=datetime('now')
               WHERE status='active'`).run();
   const id = `sess_${Date.now()}_${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 8)}`;
-  db.prepare(`INSERT INTO sessions (id, bundle_id, started_at, status, exam_minutes, scenario_ids)
-              VALUES (?, ?, datetime('now'), 'active', ?, ?)`)
-    .run(id, bundleId, mins, JSON.stringify(sessionScenarioIds));
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  db.prepare(`INSERT INTO sessions (id, bundle_id, started_at, status, exam_minutes, scenario_ids, student_id)
+              VALUES (?, ?, datetime('now'), 'active', ?, ?, ?)`)
+    .run(id, bundleId, mins, JSON.stringify(sessionScenarioIds), studentId);
   res.json({ id, bundleId, status: 'active', exam_minutes: mins, scenario_ids: sessionScenarioIds });
 });
 
@@ -380,7 +502,8 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/submit', (req, res) => {
   for (const r of examProgressRows) examProgressMap[r.scenario_id] = r;
 
   // Also pull time_spent_seconds from global progress (tracked per scenario during the exam)
-  const globalProgress = loadProgress();
+  // Use the session's own student, not whoever's request is submitting it.
+  const globalProgress = loadProgress(session.student_id || 'unassigned');
 
   const snapshot = bundleScenarios.map(s => ({
     id: s.id, title: s.title, weight: s.weight,
@@ -396,9 +519,10 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/submit', (req, res) => {
               duration_secs=?, snapshot=? WHERE id=?`)
     .run(durationSecs, JSON.stringify(snapshot), req.params.id);
 
-  // Reset timers of all scenarios in this bundle
-  const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ?`);
-  const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id)));
+  // Reset timers of all scenarios in this bundle, for this session's student only
+  const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?`);
+  const sid = session.student_id || 'unassigned';
+  const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id, sid)));
   tx(bundle.scenario_ids);
 
   res.json({ ok: true, snapshot, durationSecs });
@@ -416,8 +540,9 @@ app.post('/api/sessions/:id/abandon', (req, res) => {
                              WHERE id=? AND status='active'`).run(req.params.id);
 
   if (bundle) {
-    const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ?`);
-    const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id)));
+    const clearTimer = db.prepare(`UPDATE progress SET started_at = NULL, time_spent_seconds = 0 WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?`);
+    const sid = session.student_id || 'unassigned';
+    const tx = db.transaction(ids => ids.forEach(id => clearTimer.run(id, sid)));
     tx(bundle.scenario_ids);
   }
 
@@ -475,7 +600,7 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/context', async (req, res) => {
 app.get('/api/bundles', (req, res) => {
   const bundles   = loadBundles();
   const scenarios = loadScenarios();
-  const progress  = loadProgress();
+  const progress  = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
   const result = bundles.map(b => {
     const total     = b.scenario_ids.length;
     const completed = b.scenario_ids.filter(id => progress[id]?.status === 'completed').length;
@@ -484,10 +609,47 @@ app.get('/api/bundles', (req, res) => {
   res.json(result);
 });
 
+// GET /api/curriculum/path — the guided RootNode learning path, staged with completion status
+app.get('/api/curriculum/path', (req, res) => {
+  const path = loadCurriculumPath();
+  if (!path) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Curriculum path not found' });
+  const scenarios = loadScenarios();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
+
+  let firstIncompleteStage = null;
+  const stages = path.stages.map(stage => {
+    const scenarioList = stage.scenario_ids.map(id => {
+      const s = scenarios.find(x => x.id === id);
+      return {
+        id,
+        title: s?.title || id,
+        difficulty: s?.difficulty || null,
+        status: progress[id]?.status || 'not_started'
+      };
+    });
+    const total = scenarioList.length;
+    const completed = scenarioList.filter(s => s.status === 'completed').length;
+    const isComplete = total > 0 && completed === total;
+    if (!isComplete && !stage.locked && firstIncompleteStage === null) {
+      firstIncompleteStage = stage.id;
+    }
+    return {
+      id: stage.id,
+      name: stage.name,
+      icon: stage.icon,
+      locked: !!stage.locked,
+      scenarios: scenarioList,
+      stats: { total, completed }
+    };
+  });
+
+  res.json({ id: path.id, name: path.name, tagline: path.tagline, stages, next_stage: firstIncompleteStage });
+});
+
 // GET /api/scenarios — list scenarios; optional ?bundle=<id> and ?session=<id> filter
 app.get('/api/scenarios', (req, res) => {
   const scenarios = loadScenarios()
-  const progress  = loadProgress()
+  const progress  = loadProgress(getStudentId(req))
   const { bundle, session: sessionId } = req.query
 
   // Session-scoped: return only session scenario_ids in their shuffled order
@@ -531,7 +693,7 @@ app.get('/api/scenarios/:id', (req, res) => {
   const scenarios = loadScenarios();
   const scenario = scenarios.find(s => s.id === req.params.id);
   if (!scenario) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'Scenario not found' });
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
   res.json({
     ...scenario,
     progress: progress[scenario.id] || { status: 'not_started', attempts: 0 }
@@ -556,7 +718,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/setup', async (req, res) => {
   }
 
   // Mark scenario as in-progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
   if (!progress[scenario.id] || progress[scenario.id].status === 'not_started') {
     progress[scenario.id] = {
       ...progress[scenario.id],
@@ -564,7 +727,7 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/setup', async (req, res) => {
       attempts: (progress[scenario.id]?.attempts || 0),
       started_at: progress[scenario.id]?.started_at || new Date().toISOString()
     };
-    saveProgress(progress);
+    saveProgress(studentId, progress);
   }
 
   res.json({ setup_results: results });
@@ -602,7 +765,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/validate', async (req, res) => {
   }
 
   // Update global practice progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
   const prev = progress[scenario.id] || { attempts: 0 };
   progress[scenario.id] = {
     ...prev,
@@ -611,7 +775,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/validate', async (req, res) => {
     last_validated: new Date().toISOString(),
     completed_at: allPassed ? new Date().toISOString() : prev.completed_at
   };
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
+  touchStudent(studentId);
 
   // Also update exam_progress if there's an active session
   const db = getDb();
@@ -649,7 +814,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/answer', (req, res) => {
   const correct = selected === scenario.correct_option;
 
   // Update global practice progress
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
   const prev = progress[scenario.id] || { attempts: 0 };
   progress[scenario.id] = {
     ...prev,
@@ -659,7 +825,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/answer', (req, res) => {
     last_validated: new Date().toISOString(),
     completed_at: correct ? new Date().toISOString() : prev.completed_at
   };
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
+  touchStudent(studentId);
 
   // Also update exam_progress if there's an active session
   const db = getDb();
@@ -702,7 +869,8 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/time', (req, res) => {
   if (!activeSession) {
     return res.json({ ok: true, message: 'No active session' });
   }
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const studentId = getStudentId(req);
+  const progress = loadProgress(studentId);
   if (!progress[req.params.id]) {
     progress[req.params.id] = {
       status: 'in_progress',
@@ -714,14 +882,14 @@ app.post('/api/scenarios/:id/time', (req, res) => {
     progress[req.params.id].started_at = new Date().toISOString();
   }
   progress[req.params.id].time_spent_seconds = time_spent_seconds;
-  saveProgress(progress);
+  saveProgress(studentId, progress);
   res.json({ ok: true });
 });
 
 // GET /api/progress — full progress summary
 app.get('/api/progress', (req, res) => {
   const scenarios = loadScenarios();
-  const progress = loadProgress();
+  const progress = loadProgress(getStudentId(req));
   const total = scenarios.length;
   const completed = Object.values(progress).filter(p => p.status === 'completed').length;
   const totalWeight = scenarios.reduce((sum, s) => sum + (s.weight || 0), 0);
@@ -740,13 +908,13 @@ app.post('/api/progress/reset/:id', (req, res) => {
   try {
     const db = getDb();
     db.prepare(`
-      UPDATE progress 
-      SET status = 'not_started', 
-          attempts = 0, 
-          completed_at = NULL, 
-          last_validated = NULL 
-      WHERE scenario_id = ?
-    `).run(req.params.id);
+      UPDATE progress
+      SET status = 'not_started',
+          attempts = 0,
+          completed_at = NULL,
+          last_validated = NULL
+      WHERE scenario_id = ? AND student_id = ?
+    `).run(req.params.id, getStudentId(req));
     res.json({ ok: true });
   } catch (e) {
     res.status(500).json({ error: e.message });

docs/ENGINEERING_SOP.md

@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+# RootNode Academy — Engineering SOP
+
+Living doc. Covers the "how" of building this platform — the "why" and business/curriculum
+process live in the Business Pack (`~/Documents/CDAA Technologies/07 RootNode academy/RootNode_Academy_Business_Pack/`),
+this doc doesn't duplicate that. Update this file in the same commit as the change it describes.
+
+## 1. Where this actually lives
+
+- **Repo:** `~/Dev/Gitea/ced4568/rootnode-academy` — remote is **Gitea**
+  (`git.synthossystems.com/ced4568/rootnode-academy`), not GitHub.
+- **Gotcha:** `~/Dev/GitHub/ced4568/kubekosh` is a *different* clone of the same original
+  upstream fork, still pointed at GitHub, and it's behind (missing the RootNode logo commit
+  and the Real Ops enforce-limits scenario as of this writing). It's not deployed anywhere.
+  Don't edit it by mistake — always confirm `git remote -v` shows `gitea:` before making changes.
+- Known-good baseline as of this doc: commit `6ddfb1c` ("add probe-port-mismatch and
+  enforce-limits to rootnode-real-ops bundle"). Everything below builds on top of that,
+  clean working tree.
+
+## 2. Architecture at a glance
+
+```
+backend/server.js      Express API + SQLite (better-sqlite3) + WebSocket PTY terminal — the
+                        "Lab image," single-tenant, unmodified by the Platform work below
+frontend/               Vite + React SPA, built to frontend/dist and served by nginx
+scenarios/data/         One JSON file per scenario (task or MCQ)
+scenarios/bundles/      Flat scenario_id lists grouped by cert track (basics/appdev/admin/security/real-ops)
+scenarios/rootnode-path.json   The RootNode guided learning path (staged, see §4)
+scripts/entrypoint.sh   Container boot: starts k3s, nginx, node backend, sets the shell banner/PS1
+Dockerfile              ubuntu:22.04 + k3s + node20 + nginx, single image, one port (80)
+
+platform/provisioner/   Phase 1 Platform Provisioner — disposable per-student Lab lifecycle,
+                        PostgreSQL registry, egress firewall. See §8 and
+                        platform/provisioner/README.md.
+platform/egress-proxy/  Shared allowlisting egress proxy every Lab environment's traffic must
+                        pass through.
+```
+
+Single Express process, single SQLite file at `/data/progress.db` (or `$PROGRESS_DB`),
+single embedded k3s cluster **per Lab environment**. The Lab image itself is still
+single-tenant by design — see §5 for identity, and §8 for how Phase 1 multiplies it into a
+real multi-student platform without modifying it.
+
+## 3. Local dev / safe smoke-testing
+
+Never test schema changes against the real `/data/progress.db` first. Point at a scratch file:
+
+```bash
+cd backend && npm install   # first time only
+node --check server.js      # syntax check, catches typos fast
+PROGRESS_DB=/tmp/scratch/progress.db node server.js &
+curl -s http://localhost:4000/api/health
+# ...exercise the endpoints you changed...
+fuser -k 4000/tcp            # stop it
+```
+
+To test a migration against **real prior data** without touching prod: copy the actual
+`/data/progress.db` out of the running container/volume, point `PROGRESS_DB` at the copy,
+boot, and verify the data you expect is still there before ever pointing at the real file.
+
+kubectl/k3s-backed endpoints (`/setup`, `/validate`, `/context`, the WS terminal) won't work
+outside the container — that's expected. API-and-DB-only endpoints (roster, login, progress,
+curriculum, bundles, scenarios list) all smoke-test fine on a bare host.
+
+## 4. Curriculum content
+
+Two separate structures, don't confuse them:
+
+- **Bundles** (`scenarios/bundles/*.json`) — flat scenario_id lists, one per cert track.
+  Loaded by `loadBundles()`/`GET /api/bundles`. Adding a bundle file here = adding a new
+  cert-track library. Every scenario referenced must have a matching file in `scenarios/data/`.
+- **RootNode path** (`scenarios/rootnode-path.json`) — the guided onboarding sequence,
+  separate from bundles on purpose (it's *staged*, bundles are *flat*, and the bundle loader
+  would choke on a staged file if it were dropped in `scenarios/bundles/`). Loaded by
+  `loadCurriculumPath()`/`GET /api/curriculum/path`. Stages are Foundation → Workloads →
+  Networking → Configuration → Troubleshooting → Real Ops → Capstone, currently built by
+  reusing existing `1-k8s-basics` and `rootnode-real-ops` scenarios grouped by their existing
+  `category` field — no new scenario content was written for this. **Capstone stage is a
+  locked placeholder** (`"locked": true`, empty `scenario_ids`) — the capstone engine itself
+  is a separate, not-yet-built roadmap item (see §7, item 6). Do not put real scenarios in it
+  until that engine exists, or you'll reproduce the "duplicate beginner scenarios as capstone"
+  anti-pattern this path was built to avoid.
+
+To add/reorder a stage: edit `rootnode-path.json` directly, referencing existing
+`scenarios/data/*.json` ids. No backend code change needed — it's read fresh via
+`POST /api/cache/reload` or on server restart.
+
+## 5. Student identity — what's built, what isn't
+
+**Built (backend only, as of this doc):**
+- `students` table: `student_id` (`student-NNN`, sequential), `display_name`, `cohort`,
+  `created_at`, `last_active_at`.
+- Login model: **instructor roster, pick-your-name, no password.** `POST /api/roster` adds
+  a student (instructor-only action, currently unauthenticated at the API level — see
+  "not built" below). `GET /api/roster?cohort=X` lists names for a dropdown.
+  `POST /api/login` just validates the id exists and returns it; the frontend is expected to
+  hold onto `student_id` and send it back as an `X-Student-Id` header on every request.
+- `progress` table now keyed on `(student_id, scenario_id)` instead of `scenario_id` alone —
+  each student's completion/attempts/hints are isolated. Verified by smoke test: two students
+  answering the same scenario don't affect each other's state, and pre-migration data was
+  preserved under `student_id = 'unassigned'`.
+- Exam `sessions` now carry `student_id` (set at session start), so exam history and the
+  timer-reset-on-submit logic are correctly scoped per student instead of leaking across
+  whoever's browser hits the API next.
+
+**Not built yet — do not assume these exist:**
+- **No frontend UI.** No login screen, no name picker, no roster-add form. The API works;
+  nothing calls it yet. This is the next slice.
+- **No auth on `/api/roster` POST.** Anyone who can reach the API can add a "student."
+  Fine for a dev instance, not fine once this is reachable by actual students — needs an
+  instructor-only gate before that happens (ties into the instructor dashboard, roadmap
+  item 3).
+- **No concurrency / isolation.** Exam sessions are still global-single-active
+  (`WHERE status='active' LIMIT 1` — see `server.js`), and there is one shared k3s cluster
+  for the whole instance. Per-student identity ≠ per-student environment. **Multiple students
+  cannot yet use this platform at the same time without stepping on each other.** That's
+  roadmap item 4 (isolation) and it gates real classroom/minors use, same as the plan called
+  out — this SOP is not claiming that gate is cleared.
+
+## 6. Schema migration pattern
+
+SQLite can't `ALTER` a primary key. The codebase's existing convention (see `progress` table
+history) is:
+
+1. `PRAGMA table_info(<table>)` → check if the new column/shape is already there (idempotent,
+   safe to run on every boot).
+2. Simple new nullable column → `ALTER TABLE ... ADD COLUMN`.
+3. Primary-key or structural change → build `<table>_new` with the new shape, `INSERT ...
+   SELECT` the old data across with sane defaults for new required columns, `DROP TABLE`,
+   `RENAME TO`. Never drop data — give it a legacy/default value (`'unassigned'`, etc.)
+   instead of discarding rows.
+4. Test the migration against a **copy of real data** (§3) before it ever runs against
+   `/data/progress.db` in the container.
+
+## 7. Roadmap status
+
+Order agreed 2026-08-17/18. Status as of this doc:
+
+1. RootNode identity/branding pass — **partial.** Shell banner fixed
+   (`⎈ RootNode Academy Lab — node: k8s-lab`). Upstream KubeKosh attribution left untouched in
+   footer/README/LICENSE. Broader "make Real Ops first-class" UI work not started.
+2. RootNode curriculum mode — **backend done** (§4), frontend not started.
+3. Student accounts / persistent progress — **backend done** (§5), frontend not started,
+   no instructor auth yet.
+4. Instructor dashboard — not started.
+5. Per-student isolation — **Phase 1 (platform foundation) done**, see §8. Ephemeral
+   per-student Lab environments with Postgres-backed lifecycle, per-environment Docker
+   networking, and firewall-enforced egress restriction are implemented and tested on a single
+   dev machine. **Still not cleared for minors** — no Gateway/frontend wiring yet (environments
+   are only reachable via the internal Provisioner API), no instructor auth on top of it, and
+   the production two-VM Proxmox split this depends on doesn't exist yet. See
+   `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` final report for exactly what's verified vs. not.
+6. Scenarios → teaching modules (incident context/investigation/prevention) — not started.
+7. Capstone/exam engine — not started (placeholder stage only, see §4).
+8. Progressive hint levels — not started.
+9. Production observability — not started.
+10. CI scenario testing — not started.
+11. Container/build optimization — explicitly deprioritized by design (platform works, not urgent).
+
+Next slice: either the deferred frontend login (name picker → `X-Student-Id` header, curriculum
+view), or the Phase 2 platform work (Gateway, frontend wiring to the Provisioner, instructor
+auth) — see the Phase 1 final report for the concrete Phase 2 list. Not decided here.
+
+## 8. Platform Provisioner (Phase 1)
+
+Full design: `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` + `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md`. Operational
+reference (config, local dev, known limitations): `platform/provisioner/README.md`. This
+section is just the map.
+
+- **What it is:** an internal-only service that provisions a disposable, fully isolated Lab
+  environment per student — its own Docker network, its own container running the existing,
+  unmodified Lab image, its own firewall-enforced egress. Postgres-backed registry
+  (`environments`, `environment_events`, `lab_hosts`), idle reaper, startup reconciliation.
+- **What it is not (yet):** reachable by a student. There's no Gateway and no frontend wiring
+  — it's exercised directly via its internal API (shared-secret auth) or
+  `platform/provisioner/test/run.js`. Nothing here is a live feature.
+- **Where identity lives:** unchanged from §5 — `students`/`progress` are still on the Lab
+  image's own SQLite. `environments.student_id` is deliberately opaque (no FK) until a later,
+  separate migration puts roster/progress on the same Postgres instance as the environment
+  registry.
+- **Local dev:** `platform/provisioner/docker-compose.dev.yml` runs Postgres + the egress
+  proxy + the Provisioner on one machine — the documented Phase 1 dev exception. Production
+  is a two-VM Proxmox split (Platform VM / Lab Host VM); the dev compose file is explicitly
+  not that.
+- **Test procedure:** `platform/provisioner/test/run.js` — 12 automated integration tests
+  against a live dev stack (isolation, firewall ordering, reset/destroy cleanup, audit
+  events). Some properties (idle reaper timing, remote TLS lab-host, reconciliation-on-crash,
+  real-image k3s behavior) were validated manually during implementation rather than
+  automated — see the Phase 1 final report for what and why.

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+# RootNode Academy — Ephemeral Lab Architecture
+
+Status: **Phase 1 (platform foundation) IMPLEMENTED 2026-08-18** — see
+`docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` for the concrete schema/API/test results, and
+`platform/provisioner/README.md` for how to run it. This document remains the architecture
+record for the full ephemeral-lab direction; later phases (Gateway, frontend wiring, instructor
+dashboard, production Proxmox deployment — see the Phase 1 report's "Future Phase 2 items")
+build on it but aren't built yet. Supersedes the namespace-isolation
+(`shared_namespace`/`ephemeral_cluster`) approach that was in flight before this redirect — see
+`scenarios/SCHEMA.md`'s `isolation_type` note for the pointer back here.
+
+Committed direction: **one fully isolated, disposable environment per student. No shared
+Kubernetes control plane, ever.** This is the long-term architecture, not a stopgap.
+
+**Decisions locked 2026-08-18** (resolves the four open questions this doc originally ended
+with — see §2–§5 below for where each lands, and `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` for the
+Phase 1 build plan against these decisions):
+1. **Egress:** restricted, explicit allowlist. No unrestricted internet egress, ever. No route
+   to trusted RootNode management/CDAA/home/business networks, under any allowlist entry.
+2. **Platform DB:** PostgreSQL. The Platform control plane is not built around SQLite. The
+   existing single-container local dev mode keeps using its own local SQLite as today —
+   unaffected, unrelated database.
+3. **Suspend/resume:** experimental only, not load-bearing. The guaranteed lifecycle is
+   `provision → run → destroy → recreate`. Persistent academic state lives outside the Lab
+   specifically so destroying one never loses student progress — suspend/resume is a possible
+   future optimization, not something correctness depends on.
+4. **Resource sizing:** not hard-coded. Quotas are policy/config-driven. Target host class is
+   ~16 cores/32 threads, 128GB RAM, SSD/NVMe — actual per-lab limits and concurrency get set
+   by benchmarking against that class, not guessed up front.
+
+**Corrections locked 2026-08-18** (round 2 — architectural fixes required before Phase 1
+implementation begins; folded into §1, §4, §7, §9 below, not just listed here):
+
+- **A. VM boundary.** Privileged Lab containers must never share an OS/VM boundary with the
+  Platform (Postgres, control-plane) in production — separate VMs under Proxmox, connected by
+  a Provisioner-initiated control channel only. The Lab Host is a *configured target*, not an
+  assumption that Docker is local. Single-machine is still fine for Phase 1 development — see §1/§9.
+- **B. Egress is a firewall control, not an app convention.** `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY`
+  configure well-behaved apps for convenience; they enforce nothing. The firewall is the
+  control, and rule *ordering* matters — required infrastructure (proxy, DNS) must be
+  explicitly permitted before the blanket RFC1918 drops, or those drops shadow the allow
+  rules and nothing works. See §4 — this also corrects a real ordering bug in the original
+  design (explained there).
+- **C. `student_id` is opaque in Phase 1.** No real foreign key to a `students` table —
+  students/progress stay on SQLite until a later, separate Platform DB migration. Documented,
+  not silently assumed. See §3/§9.
+- **D. Lab host is an abstraction from day one**, even with exactly one configured host in
+  Phase 1 — the Provisioner is never allowed to hard-code "Docker is local." See §4.
+
+---
+
+## 0. What already exists (grounding, not invention)
+
+The current repo (`~/Dev/Gitea/ced4568/rootnode-academy`) already documents almost this exact
+intent in its own README, just never built out:
+
+> "The upstream project assumes one learner, one container. RootNode Academy runs it across
+> three delivery modes... One container **per student** — never share a cluster between
+> learners... Put authentication in front (proxy-level)... Idle-timeout + auto-teardown."
+
+And the existing image already **is** a complete single-student lab: nginx + React frontend +
+Node/Express backend + `node-pty` WebSocket terminal + a single-node k3s cluster, all in one
+`--privileged` container (confirmed required — k3s needs kernel namespaces/cgroups, per
+`README.md:52`). That container is the unit this design multiplies, not something it replaces.
+
+What changes: today that one container also owns identity/progress (SQLite at
+`/data/progress.db`, one volume per student, mounted by hand). This design pulls that
+ownership out into a persistent Platform, and makes the container itself fully disposable.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Proposed architecture
+
+Two roles — and in production, on **two separate VM/OS boundaries**, not just two logical
+components sharing a box. Correction A drives this: `--privileged` Docker containers are not
+a security boundary from their own Docker host, so the boundary has to be a real VM boundary,
+not a process boundary.
+
+**Production topology:**
+
+```
+Proxmox VE (or equivalent hypervisor)
+│
+├── RootNode Platform VM   (trusted — never runs student code)
+│   │
+│   │  Platform API   roster · login · progress · curriculum · exam records ·
+│   │                 environment registry · instructor controls
+│   │  Platform DB    PostgreSQL — environments + audit log now;
+│   │                 students/progress join later (§3/§9, correction C)
+│   │  Provisioner    talks OUT to a *configured* Lab Host endpoint —
+│   │                 never assumes Docker is local (§4, correction D)
+│   │  Gateway        opaque-token routing to student lab containers;
+│   │                 only component with a leg in both worlds
+│   │
+│   ▼ (Provisioner-initiated control channel only — TCP+TLS to the Lab
+│      Host's Docker API. Nothing on the Lab Host VM ever initiates a
+│      connection back. See §4/§7 for why this direction matters.)
+│
+└── RootNode Lab Host VM   (untrusted — this is where privileged student
+    │                       containers actually run; holds nothing the
+    │                       Platform needs protected)
+    │
+    ├── Student A's LAB ── own private network, own nested k3s, no identity
+    ├── Student B's LAB ── own private network, own nested k3s, no identity
+    └── Student C's LAB ── own private network, own nested k3s, no identity
+```
+
+Each Lab is **today's `Dockerfile` and `entrypoint.sh`, functionally unchanged** — still runs
+k3s + the terminal + scenario setup/validate/teardown exactly as now. The only change inside
+it: it stops being the system of record for who's using it or what they've completed (§3, §9).
+
+A compromised student container's worst case is the Lab Host VM — never Postgres, never the
+Platform API, because there is no network path from that VM back to the Platform VM at all
+(§4, §7). That containment is the actual point of the two-VM split, not a deployment nicety.
+
+**Phase 1 development exception:** running the Platform and a Lab container on one machine is
+fine for local testing (§9) — the Provisioner just gets configured with a single `lab_host`
+pointing at the local Docker socket instead of a remote TLS endpoint. The *code* never
+special-cases "local" vs "remote" — same abstraction either way (§4/§9 of
+`docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md`).
+
+---
+
+## 2. Environment lifecycle
+
+State machine per environment, tracked in the Platform DB (`environments` table, §3):
+
+**Guaranteed path** (what correctness depends on): `requested → provisioning → running →
+resetting → running` (reset loop, same route) and `(provisioning|running|error) → destroying
+→ destroyed`. `provisioning → error` and `running → error` cover failed/lost environments;
+`error → destroying → destroyed` (or `→ resetting → running`, when recoverable) is the way out.
+
+```
+requested → provisioning → running ─┬─→ resetting → running (clean slate, same route)
+                                     └─→ destroying → destroyed
+provisioning → error (failed to reach ready state)
+running → error (health check fails mid-session)
+error → destroying → destroyed  (or → resetting → running, if recoverable)
+
+[EXPERIMENTAL, not relied on for correctness — see decision #3]
+running ──suspend──→ suspended ──resume──→ running (or → error, if resume fails)
+```
+
+- **provision** — Provisioner picks a host with capacity (§5), creates a private network for
+  this student (§4), starts a container from the pinned Lab image, generates a random
+  high-entropy routing token, waits for the existing readiness signal (k3s API ready + backend
+  `/api/health` OK — same check the current entrypoint already does), writes the `environments`
+  row, hands the route back to the Platform API.
+- **start** — used only for `provisioning → running` (starting a freshly created container).
+  There is no supported path that starts a previously-stopped container in the guaranteed
+  lifecycle — see suspend/resume below.
+- **suspend/resume — EXPERIMENTAL, decision #3.** `docker stop`/`docker start` on a k3s-in-container
+  Lab is *not assumed to work* and is not built as part of the guaranteed lifecycle. It's
+  worth testing (see the Phase 1 test plan) because if it turns out reliable it's a cheap
+  latency win later — but nothing in the platform depends on it succeeding. The only supported
+  way to bring an environment back is `destroy` + `provision` (or `reset`, which is that same
+  pair against one `environments` row/routing token). This is also *why* academic state living
+  outside the Lab (§3) isn't optional — it's what makes "just destroy and recreate" a fully
+  safe default instead of a data-loss risk.
+- **reset** — destroy and recreate the container from the pinned image, **same routing token
+  and same `environments` row**, so the student's "return to my lab" link doesn't change.
+  This is the instructor-facing "reset student environment" control.
+- **destroy** — stop + remove container, remove its private network, release the routing
+  token, mark the `environments` row `destroyed` with a timestamp. Progress already lives in
+  the Platform DB (§3), so destroying an environment never loses academic data — only
+  in-terminal, not-yet-validated work.
+- **Idle reaper** (new, required — not optional) — background job in the Provisioner checks
+  `last_active_at` per running environment (heartbeat from the Gateway or from Lab `/api/health`
+  polling) and auto-suspends past an idle threshold, auto-destroys past a longer abandoned
+  threshold. Without this, "ephemeral by default" is just a description, not a guarantee —
+  a closed browser tab does not stop a running k3s cluster.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Data model changes
+
+Everything below lives in the **Platform DB**, not inside any Lab container.
+
+Already built (previous slice, unaffected by this redirect — still correct under this
+architecture):
+- `students(student_id, display_name, cohort, created_at, last_active_at)`
+- `progress(student_id, scenario_id, status, attempts, ...)` — composite key, already
+  per-student.
+- `sessions` / `exam_progress` — exam records, already student-attributed.
+
+New:
+- `environments(environment_id UUID PK, student_id, status, routing_token, container_id,
+  lab_host_id FK, internal_ip, cpu_limit, mem_limit_mb, storage_limit_mb, image_ref, created_at,
+  started_at, last_active_at, destroy_at, error_reason)` — **`student_id` is an opaque external
+  identifier here (correction C), not a foreign key.** Students/progress stay on the existing
+  SQLite in Phase 1 (see §9); Postgres has no `students` table yet, so there is nothing to key
+  against. The Provisioner trusts whatever `student_id` its caller passes — it does not
+  validate it against a roster. A real FK gets added when students/progress actually migrate
+  onto this Postgres instance, not before. `lab_host_id`, by contrast, *is* a real FK — both
+  tables live in the same Provisioner-owned Postgres DB (correction D, full schema in
+  `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md`).
+- `lab_hosts(lab_host_id PK, endpoint, enabled, ...)` — the abstraction correction D requires:
+  which Docker endpoint a given environment's container actually lives on. Phase 1 ships with
+  exactly one row (pointing at either a local socket in dev or the Lab Host VM's TLS endpoint
+  in production) — the table exists so environment creation is never coupled to "Docker is
+  local" as an assumption, even though there's no scheduling logic yet.
+- `environment_events(id, environment_id, event_type, actor, detail, created_at)` — audit
+  trail for provision/start/stop/reset/destroy/error, needed for both incident response and
+  ordinary "why did my lab disappear" support.
+
+**Removed from the Lab image's responsibility:** the `students` and roster-facing parts of the
+schema I added to `backend/server.js` in the previous slice move to be Platform-only. The Lab
+image's own SQLite either goes away entirely or is kept only as scratch/ephemeral state that's
+allowed to die with the container — it must not be treated as authoritative for anything.
+
+**Decision #2: PostgreSQL, not SQLite.** The Platform control plane — the environment registry
+specifically, and the target for progress/roster once they migrate over — is Postgres. The
+existing single-container local dev mode keeps its own local SQLite exactly as today; that's a
+different, unrelated database serving a different purpose (single-tenant local testing), not
+something this decision touches. See `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` for the exact schema
+being stood up first.
+
+---
+
+## 4. Networking model
+
+- **One private Docker network per student environment**, not one shared network for all
+  labs. Docker's default per-network isolation means Student A's container has no L2/L3 path
+  to Student B's container at all — this is stronger and simpler than trying to firewall
+  students apart on a shared network.
+- **No published ports on Lab containers.** Today's image publishes `-p 7554:80`; under this
+  design that stops — the only thing that can reach a Lab container is the Gateway, over that
+  student's private network.
+
+### Egress — correction B: the firewall is the control, not the proxy env vars
+
+`HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` are set on each Lab container so well-behaved processes (containerd
+pulling scenario images) route through the allowlisting proxy cleanly. **That is configuration,
+not enforcement** — a process that ignores those env vars and dials out directly must still be
+blocked, by something that doesn't depend on the container's cooperation. That something is a
+host firewall rule, evaluated on every packet regardless of what any process inside the
+container does.
+
+**Ordering bug in the original draft, corrected here:** the previous version of this section
+listed proxy/DNS `ACCEPT` rules before the RFC1918 `DROP` rules in prose, but specified
+installing them with `iptables -I` (insert-at-head) in that same top-to-bottom order — which
+actually reverses the result, since each `-I` without a rule number pushes the *new* rule to
+position 1. Run in that order, the RFC1918 drops end up evaluated *before* the proxy/DNS
+accepts, silently blocking the proxy itself if it happens to sit on an RFC1918 address (it
+will — it's Platform-side infrastructure). Corrected mechanism (exact rules in
+`docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` §5): each student network gets its own dedicated iptables
+chain, built with `-A` (append, so rules land in the order they're added — no head-insertion
+trap), containing explicit `ACCEPT` rules for the egress proxy, DNS, and any specifically
+required Platform endpoint *first*, then the RFC1918 `DROP`s, then a final default-`DROP`. That
+chain is reached from `DOCKER-USER` (the chain Docker guarantees it won't silently rewrite) via
+one jump rule matching that student's subnet.
+
+**What no student lab may ever reach, regardless of allowlist state:**
+- RootNode management networks
+- the Platform database (Postgres)
+- Docker/Proxmox management interfaces (including the Lab Host VM's own Docker API endpoint —
+  a Lab container talking back to the thing that provisioned it is exactly the escalation path
+  this design exists to prevent)
+- CDAA infrastructure
+- home/trusted networks
+- other students' lab networks (already unreachable via Docker's own per-network isolation
+  above; the RFC1918 drop is a deliberate second layer, not redundant — it also catches any
+  case where two student networks' address ranges could otherwise see each other at the host
+  routing level)
+
+**Decision #1, restated with the ordering fix:** restricted egress, explicit allowlist, no
+unrestricted internet access ever, enforced at the firewall layer with required infrastructure
+explicitly permitted *before* the blanket denies — not the reverse, and not left implicit.
+
+### VM-to-VM boundary — correction A
+
+The Lab Host VM has **no route back to the Platform VM at all**, in either direction, except
+the one the Provisioner itself opens. The Provisioner (on the Platform VM) connects *out* to
+the Lab Host's Docker API over TCP+TLS with a client certificate only the Provisioner holds;
+nothing on the Lab Host VM — student containers or the VM's own OS — can open a connection back
+toward the Platform VM. This is enforced at the hypervisor/network level (Proxmox VLAN/firewall
+rules between the two VMs), the same category of control as the CDAA/home boundary below, not
+something Docker networking alone provides. A compromised student container's blast radius
+stops at the Lab Host VM.
+
+**No route to trusted CDAA/home/business networks, full stop.** This is a host/hypervisor
+boundary, not something Docker networking alone can guarantee — the box(es) these containers
+run on need to sit on their own segment with no bridge/route to those networks, consistent with
+the existing `RootNode_Academy_Business_Pack/06_Technology/01_Technical_Platform_Plan.md`
+("dedicated student network/DMZ separated from trusted networks"). This design assumes that
+host-level segmentation is a prerequisite, not something the app layer can create on its own.
+
+### Lab host abstraction — correction D
+
+The Provisioner never talks to "the local Docker socket" as a hard-coded assumption — it talks
+to whichever `lab_hosts` row it's configured to use (§3), resolved to a Docker endpoint that
+may be `unix:///var/run/docker.sock` (Phase 1 dev, single machine) or a remote
+`tcp://<lab-host-vm>:2376` with TLS (production, per the topology in §1). Phase 1 ships exactly
+one enabled `lab_host` and zero scheduling logic — the abstraction exists so adding a second
+host later is a config row, not a rewrite.
+
+- **Gateway** is the only component with a leg in both the public-facing network and every
+  student's private network. It resolves `routing_token → container internal IP:port` by
+  querying the Platform API (or a shared registry cache) per request/connection, then proxies
+  both HTTPS (scenario API, static frontend) and the WSS terminal connection.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Resource model
+
+- Per-environment caps applied at container-create time: `--cpus`, `--memory` (with
+  `--memory-swap` pinned equal to `--memory` so nothing swaps), `--pids-limit` (fork-bomb
+  guard). Storage: needs a size-capped volume — exact mechanism (`--storage-opt size=`, a
+  loopback-backed bind mount, or a tmpfs cap) depends on the host's actual Docker storage
+  driver, which I haven't inspected — needs to be confirmed against the real deploy target
+  before picking one.
+- **Decision #4: policy-driven, not hard-coded.** Limits come from config, not constants in
+  code — a resource-policy file the Provisioner reads at startup (and can reload), not numbers
+  baked into the create-container call. No specific numbers are chosen yet. Target host class
+  for planning purposes: ~16 cores/32 threads, 128GB RAM, SSD/NVMe. Actual per-lab limits and
+  how many environments run concurrently on that class get set by benchmarking (Phase 1's test
+  plan includes the first real measurements), not by guessing backward from the spec sheet.
+- **Admission control:** Provisioner refuses to `provision` past the point where already-running
+  environments' summed limits would exceed host capacity. Simple counter/gate to start; can
+  become real bin-packing later if there's ever more than one host.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Routing/auth model
+
+1. Student logs in at the Platform (existing roster/pick-your-name flow, unchanged).
+2. Frontend asks the Platform for "my lab." If none running, Platform calls the Provisioner to
+   `provision` (or `start`, if one's suspended).
+3. Platform returns an **opaque, high-entropy routing token** scoped to
+   `(student_id, environment_id)`, short TTL, revoked on `destroy`.
+4. Frontend connects to the Gateway using that token — `https://labs.<domain>/e/<token>/...`
+   and `wss://labs.<domain>/e/<token>/shell-ws`. The Lab container itself never sees a
+   student identity; it's purely an execution surface addressed by an opaque route.
+5. Gateway validates the token maps to a currently `running` environment before proxying —
+   rejects stale tokens from destroyed/reset environments outright, so there's no window where
+   an old link reaches a different (possibly now-different-student's) container.
+6. **Instructor auth** extends the shared-passcode model already used for the roster-add
+   endpoint: instructor-only calls (`list environments`, `reset`, `terminate`, `resource usage`)
+   go through the Platform API under that same gate, which then calls the Provisioner
+   internally. Students and the public internet never talk to the Provisioner or the Docker
+   socket directly — only the Platform backend does.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Security boundaries (defense in depth)
+
+1. **Browser ↔ Gateway** — public-facing, TLS, opaque routing tokens only. Nothing
+   cluster-admin-shaped is reachable from here.
+2. **Gateway ↔ Lab container** — private per-student Docker network only, no published ports,
+   Gateway is the sole entry point.
+3. **Inside the Lab container** — `--privileged` is required for k3s (confirmed, not
+   avoidable — this isn't a place to try to "hold the line" without breaking k3s). The
+   mitigation is containment, not avoidance: this privileged container has no reachable
+   network path to anything except the Gateway, runs as a throwaway that gets destroyed/reset
+   routinely, and cluster-admin *inside a student's own disposable cluster* is expected and
+   fine — that's the entire point of full isolation, a student doing CKS-tier cluster-admin
+   work only ever affects their own throwaway cluster.
+4. **Lab container ↔ its own Docker host (correction A — the boundary that actually matters
+   here)** — `--privileged` is explicitly **not treated as a sufficient isolation boundary from
+   its own Docker host.** In production the Lab Host VM holding these containers is a separate
+   VM from the Platform VM, with no route back to it at all (§4). If a student ever escapes
+   their container, the ceiling is the Lab Host VM — never Postgres, never the Platform API,
+   never another student's environment.
+5. **Provisioner ↔ Lab host's Docker API** — only the Provisioner can invoke it, over a
+   connection *it* initiates (TCP+TLS, client-cert auth, per §4's lab-host abstraction). The
+   Docker endpoint is never student-reachable, never internet-reachable, and nothing on the Lab
+   Host VM can initiate a connection back toward the Provisioner or the Platform VM.
+6. **Platform VM ↔ other networks** — dedicated segment, no bridge to home/business/CDAA
+   trusted infrastructure, matching the existing Technical Platform Plan doc. Prerequisite, not
+   something this design builds. Same standard applies to the Lab Host VM independently — it
+   isn't exempted just because it's "the untrusted one."
+7. **Routing tokens** — CSPRNG-generated, short TTL, invalidated on any lifecycle transition
+   out of `running`.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Failure/recovery behavior
+
+- **Provisioning fails** (host at capacity, image pull fails, k3s doesn't reach ready state in
+  time) — environment marked `error`, student gets an explicit "your lab failed to start, try
+  again" message (never a silent hang), one automatic retry, then surfaced to the instructor
+  dashboard (future) as a flagged failure.
+- **Mid-session crash** — Gateway's health check detects the upstream is unreachable, marks
+  the environment `error`, offers the student a "restart my lab" action (→ `reset`, since a
+  crashed in-container k3s is unlikely to resume cleanly). Because progress/identity/exam
+  records live in the Platform DB, this never loses the student's academic record — worst case
+  is losing in-progress, not-yet-validated terminal work.
+- **Host failure / reboot** — every environment on that host becomes unreachable. On
+  Provisioner restart, it must **reconcile its registry against actual running containers**
+  rather than trust stale DB state — some containers may auto-restart via Docker's restart
+  policy, most won't; anything the registry claims is `running` that isn't actually running
+  gets marked `error`, not silently left wrong.
+- **Idle/abandoned environments** — the reaper (§2) bounds resource leakage from crashed tabs
+  or students who just walked away, independent of any other failure path.
+- **Core resilience property of this whole design:** because the Platform DB — not the
+  disposable environment — is the system of record, every failure mode above is recoverable
+  without academic data loss. That's the actual payoff of the split in §1/§3, not just an
+  architectural nicety.
+
+---
+
+## 9. Migration path from the current single shared container
+
+- **Phase 0 (already true today, keep it):** running the existing image standalone —
+  `docker run --privileged -p 7554:80 ... rootnode-academy:latest` — is exactly the
+  single-user local dev/test mode you asked to keep available. No change needed to support
+  this; it already works and stays supported as-is.
+- **Phase 1:** Build Provisioner + `environments`/`environment_events`/`lab_hosts` registry
+  around the **existing, unmodified** Lab image, on Postgres, with the egress firewall/proxy
+  from §4 in place from the start (not bolted on later). Development exception (correction A):
+  running Platform + Provisioner + one Lab container all on a single machine is fine here — the
+  Provisioner is configured with one `lab_host` pointing at the local Docker socket instead of
+  a remote TLS endpoint, same code path either way. Prove two lab environments can run side by
+  side, fully isolated from each other, before any production traffic or a second VM enters
+  the picture. `students`/`progress` stay on the existing SQLite through this phase
+  (correction C) — `environments.student_id` is opaque, not a foreign key, until a later,
+  separate migration actually moves roster/progress onto Postgres.
+- **Phase 2 (the one real code change inside the Lab image):** narrow `backend/server.js`
+  inside the Lab image down to a "dumb executor" — scenario setup/validate/teardown/answer and
+  the WS terminal stay, but it stops owning `students`/roster and stops being the source of
+  truth for progress. Either it calls back to the Platform API to report validation results,
+  or — cleaner — the Platform API becomes the only thing the frontend talks to for
+  progress/curriculum/identity, and it calls the Lab container (via the route the Provisioner
+  already tracks) purely to execute against that student's cluster and get a pass/fail back.
+- **Phase 3:** Wire instructor controls (list/reset/terminate/resource-usage) against the new
+  registry — this is also where the "no auth on roster-add" gap from the previous slice gets
+  closed for real, since instructor auth is now a load-bearing security boundary, not just
+  roster hygiene.
+- **Phase 4 (cutover):** point the real domain at the Gateway instead of a single container.
+  Keep the Phase 0 single-container path available under local/dev tooling, per your explicit
+  requirement.
+- **Rollback safety:** at every phase through Phase 3, the current single-shared-container path
+  keeps working completely unmodified — nothing about this migration risks the working
+  baseline until the Phase 4 cutover, which is also the only step that's meaningfully
+  reversible-with-effort rather than trivially reversible.
+
+---
+
+## 10. Exact files/components this touches (once approved — no code written yet)
+
+**New, none of it touching the existing Lab image's core logic:**
+- `platform/provisioner/` — Docker lifecycle management against a *configured* `lab_host`
+  endpoint (correction D — never a hard-coded local socket), `environments`/`lab_hosts` CRUD,
+  per-environment firewall chain management (correction B), idle reaper, admission control.
+- `platform/egress-proxy/` — the shared allowlisting proxy every Lab container's egress must
+  pass through (correction B).
+- `platform/gateway/` — token→route resolution, HTTPS + WSS proxying (candidate: Traefik with
+  a dynamic provider backed by the Platform API, or a small custom Node proxy — not decided,
+  not needed for this design review).
+- Platform DB migrations: `environments`, `environment_events`, `lab_hosts` tables — full
+  schema in `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md`.
+
+**Modified, once implementation starts:**
+- `backend/server.js` — split as described in §9 Phase 2. This is presently both "the lab
+  image's backend" and "the only backend that exists"; under this design it forks into a
+  narrower Lab-side executor and a separate, persistent Platform-side API. Exact file layout
+  for that split is an implementation decision, not part of this design doc.
+- `README.md` — the "Multi-Student Deployment" section (`README.md:128-146`) currently
+  documents per-student **volumes** for persistence; that persistence model is superseded by
+  §3 above and the README needs updating once this ships, so it doesn't contradict reality.
+- `docs/ENGINEERING_SOP.md` — new section for the Platform/Provisioner/Gateway components and
+  the reconciliation/reaper operational procedures from §8.
+
+**Unchanged:**
+- `Dockerfile`, `scripts/entrypoint.sh`, `scripts/nginx.conf` for the Lab image itself — it's
+  still one container running k3s + backend + terminal, exactly as today, just multiplied and
+  stripped of identity ownership.
+- All scenario content (`scenarios/data/`, `scenarios/bundles/`, `scenarios/rootnode-path.json`)
+  — unaffected either way; every scenario now runs with full admin of its own disposable
+  cluster, so the earlier `shared_namespace`/`ephemeral_cluster` split has no bearing here.
+
+**New Dockerfile needed (not yet written):** one for the Provisioner+Gateway services — these
+are new components, not variants of the existing Lab image.
+
+---
+
+## Status
+
+All four open questions this doc originally ended with are resolved — see the decisions block
+at the top and §2–§5 above. Next: `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` — the concrete build
+plan for the platform foundation (Postgres environment registry, provisioner skeleton,
+networking, egress, resource policy, reaper) against these decisions.

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+# RootNode Academy — Phase 1: Platform Foundation
+
+Status: **IMPLEMENTED, tested on a single dev machine, 2026-08-18.** Code lives in
+`platform/provisioner/` and `platform/egress-proxy/`. This doc still reflects the corrected
+design (four architecture corrections: VM boundary, egress-as-firewall-not-app-config, opaque
+`student_id`, lab-host abstraction) — the implementation matches it, with a handful of
+deviations found and fixed during testing, listed in "Implementation notes" at the end of each
+section below where relevant, and summarized in `platform/provisioner/README.md`'s "Known
+limitations." Builds on `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` (read that first).
+
+**Scope — this phase only:**
+Postgres-backed environment registry · lifecycle state model · provisioner service skeleton ·
+per-student private Docker network · disposable Lab container creation from the existing
+image · configurable CPU/RAM/PID/storage limits · restricted egress · unique opaque routing
+token · environment event/audit log · destroy/reset · idle-reaper design · current
+single-container dev mode kept working, untouched.
+
+**Explicitly not in this phase:** instructor dashboard, self-paced public enrollment, any
+scenario content change, unrestricted egress, removing local single-user mode. Nothing below
+proposes touching `backend/server.js`, `Dockerfile`, `scripts/entrypoint.sh`, or
+`scenarios/**` — the Lab image is used exactly as it exists today.
+
+---
+
+## 1. Service boundaries
+
+Two new components. Neither is the Lab image; neither is public-facing.
+
+- **Provisioner** (`platform/provisioner/`) — new Node service. Owns: the Postgres
+  `environments`/`environment_events`/`lab_hosts` tables, the Docker Engine API connection (via
+  `dockerode`, not shelling out to the `docker` CLI), network/container lifecycle, the idle
+  reaper, and egress-firewall management for each student network. Exposes an internal HTTP API
+  (§4) gated by a shared-secret header — same pattern already used for the instructor-passcode
+  gate on the roster endpoint, so this doesn't introduce a new auth idiom.
+  **Docker connection is always resolved through `lab_hosts` (§2), never hard-coded** — Phase 1
+  configures exactly one row, pointing at `unix:///var/run/docker.sock` for single-machine dev
+  or a `tcp://<lab-host-vm>:2376` TLS endpoint for the two-VM production topology in
+  `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §1. Same code path either way; only the config differs.
+- **Egress proxy** (`platform/egress-proxy/`) — one shared instance (not per-student), a
+  minimal HTTP(S) forward proxy (Squid) with a static host allowlist. Every Lab container's
+  `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` env vars point at it; the student network's firewall rule permits
+  egress *only* to this proxy and to DNS, so there's no way for a Lab container to reach the
+  internet except through something the Platform's allowlist controls.
+
+Nothing else changes. No new Platform API / roster-progress migration in this phase — that's
+explicitly out of scope (see §2 note on `student_id`).
+
+---
+
+## 2. Exact DB schema (PostgreSQL)
+
+New database, e.g. `rootnode_platform`. Only the environment registry ships this phase —
+`students`/`progress`/`sessions` stay on the existing SQLite inside the Lab image for now;
+migrating those onto this Postgres instance is a later phase, not bundled in here.
+
+```sql
+-- ── lab_hosts — correction D: the abstraction that keeps Docker connectivity out of code ──
+CREATE TABLE lab_hosts (
+  lab_host_id    TEXT PRIMARY KEY,          -- e.g. 'dev-local', 'labhost-01'
+  display_name   TEXT NOT NULL,
+  endpoint       TEXT NOT NULL,             -- 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock' (dev) or
+                                              -- 'tcp://10.x.x.x:2376' (prod, TLS-verified)
+  tls_ca_path    TEXT,                       -- null for the local-socket dev case
+  tls_cert_path  TEXT,                       -- Provisioner's client cert for this host
+  tls_key_path   TEXT,
+  enabled        BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true,
+  created_at     TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+  -- Future (not this phase): capacity/status columns for real scheduling once there's
+  -- more than one host. Phase 1 selects "the one enabled row" — no scheduler.
+);
+
+CREATE TYPE environment_status AS ENUM (
+  'requested', 'provisioning', 'running', 'resetting',
+  'suspended',            -- experimental path only, see decision #3
+  'destroying', 'destroyed', 'error'
+);
+
+CREATE TABLE environments (
+  environment_id    UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+  student_id         TEXT NOT NULL,        -- CORRECTION C: opaque external identifier, not a
+                                             -- foreign key. students/progress stay on the
+                                             -- existing SQLite through Phase 1 (see
+                                             -- docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §3/§9) — there is no
+                                             -- students table in this database yet, so there
+                                             -- is nothing to reference. The Provisioner trusts
+                                             -- whatever value its caller passes; it does not
+                                             -- validate against a roster. A real FK gets added
+                                             -- only when roster/progress actually migrate onto
+                                             -- this Postgres instance, in a later, separate
+                                             -- migration — not assumed or faked here.
+  lab_host_id        TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES lab_hosts(lab_host_id),  -- real FK: both tables
+                                             -- are Provisioner-owned Postgres, correction D.
+  status             environment_status NOT NULL DEFAULT 'requested',
+  routing_token      TEXT NOT NULL,         -- CSPRNG, opaque, unique
+  container_id       TEXT,                  -- null until provisioned
+  container_name     TEXT,
+  network_id         TEXT,
+  network_name       TEXT,
+  network_subnet     CIDR,                  -- needed to install/remove the per-env firewall chain
+  image_ref          TEXT NOT NULL,         -- pinned Lab image, e.g. rootnode-academy:1.4.0
+  cpu_limit          NUMERIC NOT NULL,
+  mem_limit_mb       INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  pids_limit         INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  storage_limit_mb   INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  internal_ip        TEXT,                  -- set once running
+  internal_port      INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 80,
+  created_at         TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+  started_at         TIMESTAMPTZ,
+  last_active_at     TIMESTAMPTZ,
+  destroy_at         TIMESTAMPTZ,           -- idle-reaper's scheduled destroy time
+  error_reason       TEXT
+);
+
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX idx_environments_routing_token ON environments(routing_token);
+CREATE INDEX idx_environments_student ON environments(student_id);
+CREATE INDEX idx_environments_status ON environments(status);
+CREATE INDEX idx_environments_lab_host ON environments(lab_host_id);
+-- Phase 1 invariant: at most one non-terminal environment per student.
+-- Enforced in application logic (see §4 POST /environments), not a DB constraint yet —
+-- a partial unique index is the natural upgrade once this needs to be bulletproof under
+-- concurrent requests, not needed for a single-instance provisioner in this phase.
+
+CREATE TABLE environment_events (
+  id              BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+  environment_id  UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES environments(environment_id),
+  event_type      TEXT NOT NULL,   -- provision_requested | provisioned | started | reset
+                                     -- | destroyed | error | reaped_idle | suspend | resume
+  actor           TEXT NOT NULL,   -- 'system' | 'instructor:<id>' | 'student:<id>' | 'reaper'
+  detail          JSONB,
+  created_at      TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+);
+CREATE INDEX idx_env_events_environment ON environment_events(environment_id);
+```
+
+**Resource policy and the egress allowlist are config files, not tables.** There's no admin UI
+to manage them via a database yet (that's dashboard work, explicitly deferred), so a
+DB-backed policy table would just be a write path nothing uses. `config/resource-policy.yaml`
+(cpu/mem/pids/storage defaults, reloadable) and `platform/egress-proxy/allowlist.conf` (Squid
+ACL) are the actual source of truth — plain files an operator edits, matching how
+`entrypoint.sh` already does config via env vars rather than a database.
+
+---
+
+## 3. Lifecycle state machine
+
+Exactly what `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §2 now specifies, decision #3 applied:
+
+```
+requested → provisioning → running ─┬─→ resetting → running   (same environment_id + routing_token)
+                                     └─→ destroying → destroyed
+provisioning → error
+running → error
+error → destroying → destroyed
+error → resetting → running     (when recoverable)
+
+[EXPERIMENTAL — not required to pass for Phase 1 sign-off]
+running → suspended → running   (resume)
+running → suspended → error     (resume fails)
+```
+
+`reset` is implemented as `destroy` + `provision` against the same DB row (new container,
+network, and internal_ip; same `environment_id`/`routing_token` so a student's saved link
+doesn't change).
+
+---
+
+## 4. API endpoints (Provisioner, internal-only)
+
+All routes require `X-Provisioner-Key: <shared secret>`. Nothing here is reachable by a
+student or the public internet in this phase — there's no frontend/gateway wiring yet, this
+is tested directly (curl / a test script), which is also what makes it independently
+verifiable before any later phase builds on top of it.
+
+| Method & path | Purpose |
+|---|---|
+| `POST /environments` | Body `{ student_id }` — `student_id` is opaque (correction C, §2), not validated against a roster. `lab_host_id` is not a caller-supplied parameter in Phase 1: the Provisioner selects the single enabled `lab_hosts` row itself (`SELECT ... WHERE enabled LIMIT 1`) — no scheduling logic, no host-selection API, matching "don't overbuild scheduling yet." Rejects if the student already has a non-terminal environment (Phase 1 invariant, see §2). Synchronous: creates network → installs firewall chain (§5) → creates+starts container → polls Lab `/api/health` → marks `running`, or `error` on timeout. Returns `{ environment_id, status, routing_token }`. |
+| `GET /environments/:id` | Full row: status, container_id, limits, timestamps. |
+| `GET /environments?student_id=` | A student's environments (expected: zero or one active). |
+| `POST /environments/:id/reset` | Destroy + recreate, same `environment_id`/`routing_token`. |
+| `DELETE /environments/:id` | Destroy: stop, remove container, remove network + its firewall rules, mark `destroyed`. |
+| `POST /environments/:id/suspend` *(experimental)* | `docker stop`, mark `suspended`. Documented as unreliable — see test plan §7. |
+| `POST /environments/:id/resume` *(experimental)* | `docker start` + re-poll readiness. On failure, mark `error` rather than leaving a wrong `suspended` status. |
+| `GET /environments/:id/events` | Audit trail for that environment. |
+| `GET /health` | Provisioner's own health: Docker reachable, Postgres reachable. |
+
+Synchronous provisioning is a deliberate simplification for this phase — no job queue, no
+webhook callback. Given expected Phase 1 usage (developer testing, not a live cohort), a
+blocking HTTP call that takes a few seconds while k3s comes up is fine; converting to
+async-with-polling is the obvious upgrade if provisioning latency becomes a real UX problem
+once this is behind an actual frontend.
+
+---
+
+## 5. Docker / network operations (via `dockerode`, shown as CLI-equivalent for readability)
+
+**Provision — network:**
+```bash
+docker network create --driver bridge rootnode-lab-net-<short-env-id>
+# inspect to get the allocated subnet, store as environments.network_subnet
+```
+
+**Provision — egress firewall, corrected (§4 of `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md`, correction B).**
+The previous draft chained individual `iptables -I DOCKER-USER ...` inserts in
+ACCEPT-then-DROP order, which is backwards: `-I` without a rule number pushes each new rule to
+*position 1*, so the rules end up installed in the *reverse* of the order they were run —
+the final default-DROP would land at the top of `DOCKER-USER` and shadow everything below it,
+including the proxy/DNS accepts. Fixed by giving each environment its own dedicated chain,
+built with `-A` (append — rules land in the order added, no head-insertion trap), and reaching
+it from `DOCKER-USER` with exactly one jump rule per environment:
+
+```bash
+NET_SUBNET=$(docker network inspect rootnode-lab-net-<id> -f '{{(index .IPAM.Config 0).Subnet}}')
+CHAIN="ROOTNODE-ENV-<short-env-id>"
+
+iptables -N "$CHAIN"                      # fresh, empty chain for this environment
+
+# Required infrastructure — explicitly permitted FIRST, before any blanket deny:
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d <egress-proxy-ip> -p tcp --dport 3128 -j ACCEPT
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d <dns-resolver-ip> -p udp --dport 53   -j ACCEPT
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d <dns-resolver-ip> -p tcp --dport 53   -j ACCEPT
+# (any explicitly-required Platform endpoint would be an additional ACCEPT line here —
+#  none needed in Phase 1; the Lab image doesn't call back to the Platform yet)
+
+# Everything that must never be reachable, regardless of the above — unconditional, no
+# allowlist entry can ever bypass these, satisfying "no route to trusted networks" as a
+# hard rule rather than a policy convention:
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d 10.0.0.0/8     -j DROP
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d 172.16.0.0/12  -j DROP
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -d 192.168.0.0/16 -j DROP
+iptables -A "$CHAIN" -j DROP           # default deny, catches everything else (public internet)
+
+# Hook the student's subnet into this chain. -I here is fine and intentional: we want each
+# new environment's jump rule evaluated ahead of any broader, pre-existing DOCKER-USER rule,
+# and since every environment matches a disjoint source subnet, the relative order of jump
+# rules against each other never matters — only that each is ahead of a catch-all, if one
+# ever exists at the DOCKER-USER level.
+iptables -I DOCKER-USER -s "$NET_SUBNET" -j "$CHAIN"
+```
+
+This also directly satisfies the explicit "must never reach" list from
+`docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §4: RootNode management networks, the Platform database, Docker/
+Proxmox management interfaces (including the Lab Host VM's own Docker API — notably, since
+that API is what the Provisioner itself talks to from the *Platform* VM, a Lab container has
+no way to reach it either way, but the RFC1918 drop covers it as a second, independent layer),
+CDAA infrastructure, home/trusted networks, and other students' lab networks all fall inside
+one of the three RFC1918 ranges above and are dropped unconditionally by this same ruleset —
+one mechanism, not five separate ones to keep in sync.
+
+**Provision — container** (limits from `resource-policy.yaml`, no image/entrypoint change):
+```bash
+docker create \
+  --name rootnode-lab-<short-env-id> \
+  --network rootnode-lab-net-<short-env-id> \
+  --privileged \
+  --cpus <cpu_limit> --memory <mem_limit_mb>m --memory-swap <mem_limit_mb>m \
+  --pids-limit <pids_limit> \
+  --storage-opt size=<storage_limit_mb>m \
+  -e HTTP_PROXY=http://<egress-proxy-host>:3128 -e HTTPS_PROXY=http://<egress-proxy-host>:3128 \
+  -e NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,10.42.0.0/16,10.43.0.0/16 \
+  <pinned-lab-image-ref>
+docker start rootnode-lab-<short-env-id>
+```
+**Implementation note: `<egress-proxy-host>` is resolved per environment, not a fixed
+hostname/IP.** The egress proxy runs with host networking (`docker-compose.dev.yml`), so it's
+present on every per-student bridge network's *gateway* interface — that gateway IP (from
+`docker network inspect`'s `IPAM.Config[0].Gateway`, right alongside the subnet already used
+for the firewall chain) is what's actually reachable from that specific environment's private
+network. A single static proxy hostname would only be reachable from whichever one network
+happened to be able to resolve/route to it — this wasn't apparent until testing with two
+simultaneous environments on two different subnets. Same resolution is used for both the
+firewall's `ACCEPT` rule destination (§ above) and this container's proxy env vars, so they
+always agree.
+
+`NO_PROXY` carves out k3s's own internal pod/service CIDRs so in-cluster traffic never routes
+through the proxy — only the container's *outbound-to-the-internet* path does. containerd
+(started by the existing, unmodified `entrypoint.sh`) honors `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` from
+its process environment automatically, which is why no Lab image or entrypoint change is
+needed for well-behaved image pulls to go through the proxy.
+
+**Correction B, stated plainly: these env vars configure containerd for a clean pull path —
+they are not what makes egress restricted.** A process inside the container that ignores them
+and dials out directly is stopped by the `ROOTNODE-ENV-<id>` firewall chain above regardless,
+because that chain evaluates every packet leaving the container's network, independent of
+what any process inside chose to do. If the env vars were somehow wrong or absent, the only
+consequence is broken image pulls (a visible, debuggable failure) — never a silent hole in the
+egress boundary, because the boundary was never the env vars in the first place.
+
+Readiness: poll the container's internal IP (`docker inspect` → `NetworkSettings`) for
+`GET /api/health` — the exact endpoint `entrypoint.sh` already waits on internally, so the
+Provisioner is just doing the same check from outside instead of inventing a new one.
+
+**Destroy:**
+```bash
+docker stop rootnode-lab-<id> --time 10 && docker rm rootnode-lab-<id>
+
+# Unhook and remove this environment's dedicated chain — three ops, no rule-scanning/matching
+# needed since it's one self-contained chain per environment, not tagged rules mixed into a
+# shared one:
+iptables -D DOCKER-USER -s "$NET_SUBNET" -j "$CHAIN"
+iptables -F "$CHAIN"
+iptables -X "$CHAIN"
+
+docker network rm rootnode-lab-net-<id>
+```
+
+**Reset** = destroy, then provision again against the same `environments` row (new
+`container_id`/`network_id`/`internal_ip`, unchanged `environment_id`/`routing_token`).
+
+**Idle reaper** (background loop in the Provisioner, e.g. every 60s):
+- Query `environments WHERE status='running' AND COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at) < now() - idle_threshold`.
+- Past a shorter "idle" threshold: log a warning event (future: notify student/instructor —
+  not built yet).
+- Past a longer "abandoned" threshold: call the same destroy path as `DELETE /environments/:id`,
+  log `event_type='reaped_idle'`. Config-driven thresholds, not hard-coded (same policy file
+  as resource limits).
+
+**Implementation notes (found during testing, not in the original design):**
+- **`COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at)`, not bare `last_active_at`.** An environment that
+  fails during provisioning (before ever reaching `running`) has a NULL `last_active_at` —
+  `NULL < anything` is never true in SQL, so without the fallback such an environment would
+  never age out via the reaper at all, regardless of how long ago it failed.
+- **Provisioning failure now does best-effort cleanup of whatever was already created**
+  (container/network/firewall chain) before marking the row `error`, rather than leaving that
+  infrastructure orphaned. Found by testing: a deliberate readiness-timeout failure left a real
+  running container and firewall chain in place with only the DB row marked `error` — exactly
+  the kind of leak the reaper exists to prevent, except this case predates the reaper ever
+  having something to catch. Cleanup on the failure path directly is more honest than relying
+  on the reaper for a gap it wasn't actually catching. See `src/lifecycle.js`'s
+  `provisionEnvironment` catch block and `src/reaper.js`.
+- **Startup reconciliation (docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §8) is implemented** as
+  `reconcileOnStartup()` in `src/lifecycle.js`, called once at Provisioner boot before the
+  reaper starts. Tested by killing a container out-of-band and restarting the Provisioner —
+  confirmed it correctly flags the mismatch as `error` rather than trusting the stale
+  `running` status. Any environment caught mid-transition (`provisioning`/`resetting`/
+  `destroying`) by a crash is also always marked `error` on restart, never assumed to have
+  finished.
+
+---
+
+## 6. Security assumptions (stated explicitly, not implied)
+
+- **Correction A — the Lab Host is not the Platform's trust boundary, the VM is.** In
+  production, the host running privileged Lab containers is a separate VM from the one running
+  Postgres/Provisioner/Platform API, with no route back from the Lab Host VM to the Platform VM
+  at all — enforced at the hypervisor/network level, not by this phase's code. Phase 1's
+  single-machine dev mode is a deliberate, documented exception (`docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §1)
+  — it does not redefine what "isolated" means for the real deployment.
+- The Docker host(s) sit on a segment with no route to trusted RootNode/CDAA/home/business
+  networks — a prerequisite this phase depends on but does not create (matches the existing
+  Business Pack Technical Platform Plan). Everything below assumes that's already true.
+- No other host firewall tooling (ufw, firewalld) is silently rewriting `DOCKER-USER` or
+  removing the per-environment `ROOTNODE-ENV-<id>` chains — needs a one-time check on the real
+  host before trusting the egress rules; not something this design can verify in advance.
+- `--privileged` is required for k3s and is not being avoided (confirmed in
+  `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §7) — the security boundary is the VM split plus network
+  containment, not reduced container privilege.
+- **Correction B — `HTTP_PROXY`/`HTTPS_PROXY` are not a security control**, stated here again
+  because it's the assumption most likely to get silently reintroduced during implementation:
+  the firewall chain enforces the boundary; the env vars only make well-behaved pulls work
+  cleanly through it.
+- The egress proxy's allowlist is operator-controlled (a file the Provisioner's operator
+  edits), never student- or Lab-container-writable.
+- The Provisioner API's shared secret is the only thing standing between "internal service"
+  and "anyone who can create/destroy arbitrary privileged containers on the host" — treat that
+  secret with the same care as the instructor passcode, not as a minor implementation detail.
+  This matters more, not less, once the Provisioner is issuing commands to a remote Docker
+  endpoint (correction D) — the TLS client cert for that connection carries the same weight.
+- `storage_limit_mb` enforcement via `--storage-opt size=` depends on the host's Docker storage
+  driver supporting it (overlay2 with specific backing filesystems does; not all do) — unverified
+  until tested against the real host (§8).
+- Nothing in this phase is internet-facing. The Provisioner API assumes internal-network-only
+  reachability; it does not implement its own TLS. The Provisioner→Lab-Host Docker connection
+  (correction D), by contrast, is TLS by design once it's not a local socket — that's a
+  different boundary with different stakes and isn't optional the way the Provisioner API's
+  own TLS currently is.
+
+---
+
+## 7. Files to be created
+
+All new. Nothing existing is modified beyond the two docs already updated.
+
+```
+platform/provisioner/
+├── package.json
+├── src/
+│   ├── server.js        # Express app, routes from §4
+│   ├── db.js             # Postgres connection (pg), migration runner
+│   ├── docker.js         # dockerode client factory — resolves a lab_hosts row to a connected
+│   │                        client (local socket or remote TLS), never a hard-coded default
+│   ├── lifecycle.js      # state machine + orchestration (calls docker.js + db.js)
+│   ├── egress.js          # per-environment ROOTNODE-ENV-<id> chain create/hook/unhook/remove
+│   └── reaper.js          # idle-reaper background loop
+├── migrations/
+│   ├── 001_lab_hosts.sql
+│   ├── 002_environments.sql
+│   └── 003_environment_events.sql
+├── config/
+│   ├── resource-policy.yaml     # cpu/mem/pids/storage defaults + idle/abandoned thresholds
+│   └── lab-hosts.seed.yaml       # the one Phase 1 lab_hosts row (endpoint + TLS paths),
+│                                   # applied by the migration runner — not a runtime API,
+│                                   # per "don't overbuild scheduling yet"
+├── Dockerfile
+└── docker-compose.dev.yml       # Postgres + egress-proxy + provisioner, for local Phase 1 testing
+
+platform/egress-proxy/
+├── Dockerfile            # minimal Squid image
+└── allowlist.conf        # Squid ACL: registry-1.docker.io, ghcr.io, etc. — starting set
+                            # to be confirmed against what scenarios actually pull
+```
+
+No changes to `backend/server.js`, `Dockerfile`, `scripts/entrypoint.sh`,
+`scripts/nginx.conf`, or anything under `scenarios/`.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Test plan
+
+1. **Schema migration idempotency** — run `001_environments.sql` against a scratch Postgres
+   twice, confirm the second run is a no-op (same pattern already used for the SQLite
+   migrations: check-before-alter).
+2. **Provision → destroy round trip** — create an environment, confirm the container is
+   `running` and reachable on its internal IP, confirm `environment_events` has one row per
+   transition, destroy, confirm container/network are gone and the environment's
+   `ROOTNODE-ENV-<id>` chain no longer exists (`iptables -L ROOTNODE-ENV-<id>` errors "chain
+   does not exist") and its `DOCKER-USER` jump rule is gone (`iptables -S DOCKER-USER | grep
+   <id>` returns nothing).
+3. **Reset** — provision, note `environment_id`/`routing_token`, reset, confirm both are
+   unchanged, confirm `container_id` changed (genuinely new container), confirm no state
+   carried over (fresh k3s).
+4. **Isolation** — provision two environments, confirm A cannot reach B at all
+   (`docker exec <A> ping <B's internal_ip>` times out) — this is the core security property
+   and must be an explicit test, not an assumption.
+5. **Egress allowlist, including the ordering fix specifically** — from inside a provisioned
+   environment: an allowlisted registry pull succeeds via the proxy; a non-allowlisted host
+   fails; a direct request to an RFC1918 address (simulating a trusted-network address) is
+   dropped regardless of allowlist state. Critically: **the egress proxy's own IP is itself an
+   RFC1918 address** — this test only actually exercises the fix from correction B if the proxy
+   is reachable *and* the broader RFC1918 range is still blocked. If the proxy were unreachable
+   here, that's the exact symptom the original ordering bug would have caused (the DROP rules
+   shadowing the ACCEPT rules) — this test is what would have caught it before it shipped.
+6. **Idle reaper** — provision, force `last_active_at` backward past the abandoned threshold,
+   run one reaper tick, confirm the environment is destroyed and logged as `reaped_idle`.
+7. **Suspend/resume (experimental, decision #3 — informational, not a pass/fail gate)** —
+   `docker stop`/`docker start` a running Lab container, time how long it takes (if ever) to
+   reach `/api/health` ready again versus a fresh `provision`. This is the actual answer to
+   the question `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` flagged as untested — record the result either way,
+   but Phase 1 sign-off does not depend on this succeeding.
+8. **Reconciliation on Provisioner restart** — manually create a container outside the
+   Provisioner's knowledge, restart the Provisioner, confirm it doesn't silently trust stale
+   `environments` rows — either adopts or flags the mismatch (per
+   `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §8).
+9. **Resource limits hold** — inside a provisioned environment, confirm `--cpus`/`--memory`/
+   `--pids-limit` are actually enforced (e.g. a deliberate memory-hog process gets OOM-killed
+   at the configured limit, not the host's full RAM); confirm whether `--storage-opt size=`
+   is honored on the real host's storage driver — this is the resource-model unknown from
+   `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §5, and this test is the first real benchmarking data point
+   toward the 16-core/128GB target sizing.
+10. **Local dev-mode regression check** — confirm `docker run --privileged -p 7554:80 ...
+    rootnode-academy:latest` (today's standalone command) is completely unaffected —
+    `git diff` scoped to `backend/`, `Dockerfile`, `scripts/` should show zero changes from
+    this phase.
+11. **Lab host abstraction actually abstracts (correction D)** — point the Provisioner's
+    `lab_hosts` config at a Docker daemon exposed over TCP+TLS on the *same* dev machine
+    (`dockerd -H tcp://127.0.0.1:2376 --tlsverify ...`) instead of the local Unix socket, with
+    no code change — only the `lab_hosts` row differs. Provision/destroy round trip (test 2)
+    must pass identically against that endpoint. This is the practical proof that "Docker is
+    local" was actually removed as an assumption, not just renamed — it doesn't require a
+    second real VM to verify, only a second way of reaching the same daemon.
+12. **VM-boundary reasoning check (correction A, documentation-level, not a running test)** —
+    walk the failure scenario explicitly: if a student escaped their container onto the Lab
+    Host VM's OS, what could they reach? Confirm the answer stays "nothing on the Platform VM"
+    given the topology in `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §1 — i.e. confirm the design doesn't rely
+    on anything *inside* the Lab Host VM (a firewall rule, a credential, an agent) as the only
+    thing standing between a compromised container and Postgres. This is a design-review check
+    now; it becomes a real network-level test once a second VM exists to test against.
+
+Tests 1–6, 8, 10, 11 are runnable in a plain Docker environment with no special hardware.
+Tests 5 and 9 need the actual target host (or something close to it) to produce meaningful
+numbers, test 7 needs the real Lab image, and test 12 needs a second VM to be more than a
+design-review exercise — flagging that distinction so "passed the test plan" doesn't get read
+as "validated on production-class, two-VM hardware" when parts of it were necessarily
+validated on a single dev machine.

platform/egress-proxy/Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+FROM ubuntu:22.04
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends squid \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY squid.conf /etc/squid/squid.conf
+COPY allowlist.txt /etc/squid/allowlist.txt
+
+EXPOSE 3128
+CMD ["squid", "-N", "-d", "1"]

platform/egress-proxy/allowlist.txt

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+# RootNode Academy egress allowlist — one domain per line, matched with Squid's dstdomain ACL
+# (a leading "." matches the domain and all subdomains). Configuration-driven, operator-edited,
+# never student- or Lab-container-writable (docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §6).
+#
+# Starting set covers what the existing scenario content actually pulls (nginx, busybox-style
+# images used across scenarios/data/*.json setup_commands) — confirm/expand against real usage
+# before relying on this for a live cohort; this is a first pass, not a final audit.
+
+.docker.io
+.docker.com
+registry-1.docker.io
+auth.docker.io
+production.cloudflare.docker.com
+.ghcr.io
+.gcr.io
+.k8s.io
+.quay.io

platform/egress-proxy/squid.conf

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+# RootNode Academy shared egress proxy — one instance, not per-student.
+# Destination allowlisting only; the firewall (egress.js) is the actual enforcement boundary
+# that makes this proxy unbypassable, not the other way around
+# (docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §5/§6, correction B).
+
+http_port 3128
+
+acl allowed_dst dstdomain "/etc/squid/allowlist.txt"
+acl SSL_ports port 443
+acl Safe_ports port 80 443
+acl CONNECT method CONNECT
+
+http_access deny !Safe_ports
+http_access deny CONNECT !SSL_ports
+http_access allow allowed_dst
+http_access deny all
+
+# Audit/troubleshooting log — requirement #7. Squid's default access log format already
+# includes timestamp, client IP, method, URL, and result code, which is what "why did this
+# scenario's image pull fail" support needs.
+access_log /var/log/squid/access.log squid
+cache deny all

platform/provisioner/.env.example

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+# Copy to .env and fill in a real secret before running docker-compose.dev.yml.
+# Generate one with: openssl rand -hex 32
+PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET=
+
+# Optional overrides — see README.md's "Configuration reference" for the full list and defaults.
+# LAB_IMAGE_REF=rootnode-academy:test

platform/provisioner/Dockerfile

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+FROM node:20-slim
+
+# iptables is required at runtime for egress.js — the Provisioner manipulates the host's
+# DOCKER-USER chain directly (see docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §5), which requires this
+# container to run with --network host --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=NET_RAW (see
+# docker-compose.dev.yml). This is not a "nice to have" — without those run flags the
+# Provisioner cannot enforce egress at all, only fail loudly, which it does.
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends iptables ca-certificates \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+WORKDIR /app
+COPY package.json ./
+RUN npm install --production
+COPY src/ ./src/
+COPY migrations/ ./migrations/
+COPY config/ ./config/
+
+EXPOSE 4100
+CMD ["node", "src/server.js"]

platform/provisioner/README.md

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+# RootNode Academy — Provisioner (Phase 1)
+
+Internal-only service that provisions, resets, and destroys disposable per-student Lab
+environments. See `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` and `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` at the
+repo root for the design this implements — read those first. This file is the operational
+reference: how to run it, configure it, and what its actual limitations are.
+
+## Quick start (local dev)
+
+```bash
+cd platform/provisioner
+echo "PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET=$(openssl rand -hex 32)" > .env
+docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml build
+LAB_IMAGE_REF=rootnode-academy:test docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
+```
+
+That starts Postgres, the shared egress proxy, and the Provisioner, all on one machine — the
+documented Phase 1 dev exception (`docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §1). It is **not** the production
+topology; nothing here represents the two-VM Proxmox split.
+
+```bash
+# Smoke test
+curl -H "X-Provisioner-Key: $(grep PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET .env | cut -d= -f2)" http://localhost:4100/health
+
+# Run the integration suite (needs the stack above already running)
+source .env
+PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET=$PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET LAB_IMAGE_REF=rootnode-academy:test node test/run.js
+```
+
+The test image `rootnode-academy:test` used by default is **not** the real Lab image — build
+that separately from the repo root (`docker build -t rootnode-academy:test .`) if you want the
+suite to exercise the real one instead of a placeholder. See "Known limitations" below for why
+the real image currently doesn't fully boot in every environment.
+
+## Configuration reference
+
+All environment variables read by `src/server.js`:
+
+| Variable | Required | Default | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `PLATFORM_DB_URL` | no | `postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5433/rootnode_platform` | Postgres connection string |
+| `PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET` | **yes** | — | Internal API auth (`X-Provisioner-Key` header). Process refuses to start without it. |
+| `PROVISIONER_PORT` | no | `4100` | API listen port |
+| `LAB_IMAGE_REF` | no | `rootnode-academy:test` | Image every new environment is provisioned from |
+| `EGRESS_PROXY_PORT` | no | `3128` | Port the shared egress proxy listens on. The proxy's *host* is never a static config value — it's resolved per environment as that environment's own Docker network gateway IP (see `src/lifecycle.js` and `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` §5) |
+| `DNS_RESOLVER` | no | `127.0.0.11` | Docker's embedded per-network DNS — correct default for Docker-managed bridge networks |
+| `NO_PROXY_CIDRS` | no | `10.42.0.0/16,10.43.0.0/16` | k3s's internal pod/service CIDRs, carved out of the container's proxy config so in-cluster traffic never routes through the egress proxy |
+
+Two config files, not database tables (`config.js`), both operator-edited plain files, hot-reloadable via `SIGHUP`:
+
+- `config/resource-policy.yaml` — CPU/RAM/PID/storage limits, idle/abandoned thresholds, reaper poll interval, health-check path/timeout.
+- `config/lab-hosts.seed.yaml` — the `lab_hosts` row(s) applied at startup. Phase 1 ships exactly one, `dev-local`, pointing at the local Docker socket. Swapping this for a `tcp://<lab-host-vm>:2376` entry with TLS material is the entire config change needed to point at a real, separate Lab Host VM — no code change (see `src/docker.js` and correction D in `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md`).
+
+**Both config files are baked into the image at build time** (`Dockerfile`'s `COPY config/`),
+not bind-mounted — changing a limit requires a rebuild in this Phase 1 setup, or a `SIGHUP` to
+the running process if you've bind-mounted `config/` yourself for local iteration. This was a
+real friction point found during implementation testing (see "Known limitations").
+
+## Deployment prerequisites (production)
+
+Per `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md` §1/§7 — none of this is built by Phase 1, it's what Phase 1
+assumes already exists before it's deployed for real:
+
+- Two separate VMs under Proxmox (or equivalent): a Platform VM and a Lab Host VM, with no
+  network route from the Lab Host VM back to the Platform VM in either direction except the
+  Provisioner-initiated TLS connection to the Lab Host's Docker API.
+- Neither VM has a route to trusted RootNode/CDAA/home/business networks.
+- The Provisioner process needs `NET_ADMIN`/`NET_RAW` capability and visibility into the host
+  network namespace it's managing egress firewall rules on (`--network host` + those two caps
+  if containerized, as in `docker-compose.dev.yml`; native process privileges if run directly
+  on the Lab Host VM instead).
+- TLS material (CA/cert/key) provisioned for the Provisioner→Lab-Host-VM Docker API connection,
+  referenced by a `lab_hosts` row's `tls_ca_path`/`tls_cert_path`/`tls_key_path`.
+
+## Known limitations (found during Phase 1 implementation, not guessed)
+
+- **The real Lab image's `node-pty` native module fails to load in this sandbox's specific
+  environment**, crashing the backend before it ever listens (`Cannot find module
+  './prebuilds/linux-x64//pty.node'`). Confirmed via testing to be **pre-existing and
+  completely unrelated to the Provisioner** — the identical crash happens running the
+  unmodified image with a plain `docker run --privileged`, no Provisioner involved at all. Not
+  fixed here (out of scope — "don't redesign the existing Lab image unless strictly necessary
+  for Phase 1 operation," and it isn't; Phase 1's job is the provisioning mechanics, which are
+  fully validated against a lightweight stand-in image). Needs investigation on the actual
+  target deployment host before going live — may be an architecture/prebuild mismatch specific
+  to this sandbox, or may reproduce elsewhere.
+- **Config changes require an image rebuild** (see above) — fine for a versioned production
+  deploy, mildly annoying for local iteration. Bind-mounting `config/` in
+  `docker-compose.dev.yml` for local dev is a reasonable follow-up, not done here to keep the
+  dev/prod image build path identical.
+- **`--storage-opt size=` for per-environment storage limits is unverified** — depends on the
+  host's Docker storage driver (needs overlay2 with a backing filesystem that supports project
+  quotas). Not confirmed working or failing on this dev machine; needs a direct check on the
+  real deployment target.
+- **Real per-lab CPU/RAM sizing numbers don't exist yet** — `config/resource-policy.yaml`
+  ships with placeholder defaults sized for a laptop, not the ~16-core/128GB target host.
+  Benchmarking against real hardware is future work, not Phase 1.
+- **Suspend/resume was only exercised against the lightweight test image**, where a plain
+  Node process restarts trivially. That result says nothing about whether k3s-in-container
+  specifically survives `docker stop`/`start` — decision #3 already treats this as unproven,
+  and this test run doesn't change that. See `docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md` §8 test 7.
+- **The remote TCP+TLS `lab_hosts` code path was validated against a Docker-in-Docker sidecar**,
+  not a real second VM — proves the mechanism works, doesn't prove anything about the actual
+  Proxmox Lab Host VM network path, which doesn't exist yet.

platform/provisioner/config/lab-hosts.seed.yaml

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+# Phase 1 lab_hosts seed — applied to the DB at Provisioner startup (config.js
+# applyLabHostsSeed), not managed via a runtime API (no host-management endpoints in Phase 1,
+# matching "don't overbuild scheduling yet" — see docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §4).
+#
+# Exactly one enabled row for Phase 1. Swapping this for a remote tcp://<lab-host-vm>:2376
+# entry with TLS material is the entire code change needed to point at a real, separate Lab
+# Host VM in production — see docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §1 and correction D.
+
+lab_hosts:
+  - lab_host_id: dev-local
+    display_name: "Local development Docker socket"
+    endpoint: "unix:///var/run/docker.sock"
+    enabled: true
+
+  # Production example (not active — shown for reference; uncomment and fill in when a real
+  # Lab Host VM exists):
+  # - lab_host_id: labhost-01
+  #   display_name: "RootNode Lab Host VM 01"
+  #   endpoint: "tcp://10.20.30.5:2376"
+  #   tls_ca_path: /etc/rootnode/tls/labhost-01/ca.pem
+  #   tls_cert_path: /etc/rootnode/tls/labhost-01/cert.pem
+  #   tls_key_path: /etc/rootnode/tls/labhost-01/key.pem
+  #   enabled: true

platform/provisioner/config/resource-policy.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# Phase 1 resource policy — config-driven, not hard-coded (decision #4).
+# No specific production numbers chosen yet; target host class for planning is ~16 cores/32
+# threads, 128GB RAM, SSD/NVMe. Actual per-lab limits get set by benchmarking (see
+# docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §8 test 9), not guessed backward from the spec sheet.
+# These defaults are sized for local single-machine Phase 1 dev/testing only.
+
+default:
+  cpu_limit: 2.0          # vCPUs
+  mem_limit_mb: 4096
+  pids_limit: 512
+  storage_limit_mb: 8192  # only enforced if the host's Docker storage driver supports
+                           # --storage-opt size= (see known-limitations in the SOP)
+
+idle_threshold_minutes: 30       # past this: log a warning event only
+abandoned_threshold_minutes: 120 # past this: reaper destroys for real
+
+reaper_poll_interval_seconds: 60
+
+health_check:
+  path: /api/health
+  timeout_ms: 240000   # k3s cold start in a nested container can be slow — matches the
+                        # ~60-attempt wait already in scripts/entrypoint.sh

platform/provisioner/docker-compose.dev.yml

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+# Phase 1 local development/testing stack — Postgres + egress-proxy + provisioner, all on one
+# machine (docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §1's documented dev exception). Nothing here represents the
+# production two-VM topology; it's what makes the provisioner testable on a laptop.
+#
+# provisioner and egress-proxy run with network_mode: host + NET_ADMIN/NET_RAW because:
+#  - egress.js manipulates the host's DOCKER-USER iptables chain directly (§5) — that's only
+#    possible if the process can see the host network namespace.
+#  - egress-proxy needs to be reachable from every per-student bridge network's gateway IP,
+#    which only works if it's bound across all host interfaces (host networking), not sandboxed
+#    inside its own compose-managed bridge network.
+# Because provisioner uses host networking, it reaches Postgres via localhost:5433 (Postgres's
+# published host port), not the compose service name.
+
+services:
+  postgres:
+    image: postgres:16-alpine
+    environment:
+      POSTGRES_USER: postgres
+      POSTGRES_PASSWORD: postgres
+      POSTGRES_DB: rootnode_platform
+    ports:
+      - "5433:5432"
+    healthcheck:
+      test: ["CMD-SHELL", "pg_isready -U postgres"]
+      interval: 5s
+      timeout: 3s
+      retries: 10
+
+  egress-proxy:
+    build: ../egress-proxy
+    network_mode: host
+    # Squid listens on :3128 across every host interface, including each per-student bridge's
+    # gateway — that's the whole reason this needs host networking rather than a normal
+    # compose network.
+
+  provisioner:
+    build: .
+    network_mode: host
+    cap_add:
+      - NET_ADMIN
+      - NET_RAW
+    volumes:
+      - /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock
+    environment:
+      PLATFORM_DB_URL: postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5433/rootnode_platform
+      PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET: ${PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET:?set a real secret, do not use a default}
+      PROVISIONER_PORT: "4100"
+      LAB_IMAGE_REF: ${LAB_IMAGE_REF:-rootnode-academy:test}
+      EGRESS_PROXY_PORT: "3128"
+      DNS_RESOLVER: "127.0.0.11"
+      NO_PROXY_CIDRS: "10.42.0.0/16,10.43.0.0/16"
+    depends_on:
+      postgres:
+        condition: service_healthy

platform/provisioner/migrations/001_lab_hosts.sql

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+-- lab_hosts — correction D: the abstraction that keeps Docker connectivity out of code.
+-- See docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §3/§4 and docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §2.
+
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS lab_hosts (
+  lab_host_id    TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+  display_name   TEXT NOT NULL,
+  endpoint       TEXT NOT NULL,        -- 'unix:///var/run/docker.sock' (dev) or
+                                        -- 'tcp://10.x.x.x:2376' (prod, TLS-verified)
+  tls_ca_path    TEXT,                 -- null for the local-socket dev case
+  tls_cert_path  TEXT,
+  tls_key_path   TEXT,
+  enabled        BOOLEAN NOT NULL DEFAULT true,
+  created_at     TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+  -- Future (not Phase 1): capacity/status columns for real scheduling once there's more
+  -- than one host. Phase 1 selects "the one enabled row" — no scheduler.
+);

platform/provisioner/migrations/002_environments.sql

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+-- environments — the disposable per-student lab registry.
+-- See docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §3 and docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §2.
+
+DO $$ BEGIN
+  CREATE TYPE environment_status AS ENUM (
+    'requested', 'provisioning', 'running', 'resetting',
+    'suspended',            -- experimental path only, see decision #3 / correction A
+    'destroying', 'destroyed', 'error'
+  );
+EXCEPTION
+  WHEN duplicate_object THEN NULL;
+END $$;
+
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS environments (
+  environment_id     UUID PRIMARY KEY DEFAULT gen_random_uuid(),
+  student_id          TEXT NOT NULL,        -- opaque external identifier (correction C) —
+                                              -- no FK: students table isn't in this database
+                                              -- until a later, separate Platform DB migration.
+                                              -- The Provisioner trusts its caller on this value.
+  lab_host_id         TEXT NOT NULL REFERENCES lab_hosts(lab_host_id),  -- real FK: both
+                                              -- tables are Provisioner-owned Postgres.
+  status              environment_status NOT NULL DEFAULT 'requested',
+  routing_token       TEXT NOT NULL,         -- CSPRNG, opaque, unique
+  container_id        TEXT,
+  container_name      TEXT,
+  network_id          TEXT,
+  network_name        TEXT,
+  network_subnet      CIDR,                  -- needed to install/remove the per-env firewall chain
+  image_ref           TEXT NOT NULL,
+  cpu_limit           NUMERIC NOT NULL,
+  mem_limit_mb        INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  pids_limit          INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  storage_limit_mb    INTEGER NOT NULL,
+  internal_ip         TEXT,
+  internal_port        INTEGER NOT NULL DEFAULT 80,
+  created_at           TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now(),
+  started_at           TIMESTAMPTZ,
+  last_active_at       TIMESTAMPTZ,
+  destroy_at            TIMESTAMPTZ,          -- idle-reaper's scheduled destroy time
+  error_reason          TEXT
+);
+
+CREATE UNIQUE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_environments_routing_token ON environments(routing_token);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_environments_student ON environments(student_id);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_environments_status ON environments(status);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_environments_lab_host ON environments(lab_host_id);
+
+-- Phase 1 invariant "at most one non-terminal environment per student" is enforced in
+-- application logic (lifecycle.js), not a DB constraint yet — a partial unique index is the
+-- natural upgrade once this needs to be bulletproof under concurrent requests, not needed for
+-- a single-instance provisioner in this phase.

platform/provisioner/migrations/003_environment_events.sql

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+-- environment_events — audit trail for every lifecycle transition.
+-- See docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §3/§8 and docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §2/§9.
+-- Never log secrets or routing tokens in plaintext here (see lifecycle.js emitEvent()).
+
+CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS environment_events (
+  id              BIGSERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
+  environment_id  UUID NOT NULL REFERENCES environments(environment_id),
+  event_type      TEXT NOT NULL,   -- provision_requested | host_selected | network_created |
+                                    -- firewall_configured | container_created | ready |
+                                    -- reset | destroyed | error | reaped_idle | suspend | resume
+  actor           TEXT NOT NULL,   -- 'system' | 'instructor:<id>' | 'student:<id>' | 'reaper'
+  detail          JSONB,
+  created_at      TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+);
+
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_env_events_environment ON environment_events(environment_id);
+CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_env_events_type ON environment_events(event_type);

platform/provisioner/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "rootnode-provisioner",
+  "version": "0.1.0",
+  "description": "RootNode Academy Phase 1 platform provisioner — disposable per-student lab lifecycle.",
+  "private": true,
+  "main": "src/server.js",
+  "scripts": {
+    "start": "node src/server.js",
+    "test": "node test/run.js"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "dockerode": "^4.0.2",
+    "express": "^4.19.2",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
+    "pg": "^8.11.5"
+  }
+}

platform/provisioner/src/config.js

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+// Loads the two Phase 1 config files (resource-policy.yaml, lab-hosts.seed.yaml) — plain
+// files an operator edits, not database tables, since there's no admin UI to manage them via
+// a database yet (see docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §2). Reloadable on SIGHUP so a limits
+// change doesn't require a restart.
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const yaml = require('js-yaml');
+
+const CONFIG_DIR = process.env.PROVISIONER_CONFIG_DIR || path.join(__dirname, '../config');
+
+function loadResourcePolicy() {
+  const raw = yaml.load(fs.readFileSync(path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'resource-policy.yaml'), 'utf8'));
+  return raw;
+}
+
+function loadLabHostsSeed() {
+  const raw = yaml.load(fs.readFileSync(path.join(CONFIG_DIR, 'lab-hosts.seed.yaml'), 'utf8'));
+  return raw.lab_hosts || [];
+}
+
+// Upserts the seed rows into lab_hosts — applied at startup, not exposed as a runtime API
+// (no lab-host management endpoints in Phase 1, matching "don't overbuild scheduling yet").
+async function applyLabHostsSeed(pool) {
+  const hosts = loadLabHostsSeed();
+  for (const h of hosts) {
+    await pool.query(
+      `INSERT INTO lab_hosts (lab_host_id, display_name, endpoint, tls_ca_path, tls_cert_path, tls_key_path, enabled)
+       VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7)
+       ON CONFLICT (lab_host_id) DO UPDATE SET
+         display_name = excluded.display_name, endpoint = excluded.endpoint,
+         tls_ca_path = excluded.tls_ca_path, tls_cert_path = excluded.tls_cert_path,
+         tls_key_path = excluded.tls_key_path, enabled = excluded.enabled`,
+      [h.lab_host_id, h.display_name, h.endpoint, h.tls_ca_path || null, h.tls_cert_path || null, h.tls_key_path || null, h.enabled !== false]
+    );
+  }
+  return hosts.length;
+}
+
+let _resourcePolicy = null;
+function getResourcePolicy() {
+  if (!_resourcePolicy) _resourcePolicy = loadResourcePolicy();
+  return _resourcePolicy;
+}
+function reloadResourcePolicy() {
+  _resourcePolicy = loadResourcePolicy();
+  return _resourcePolicy;
+}
+
+module.exports = { loadResourcePolicy, loadLabHostsSeed, applyLabHostsSeed, getResourcePolicy, reloadResourcePolicy };

platform/provisioner/src/db.js

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+// Postgres connection + migration runner for the Platform DB.
+//
+// Migration pattern matches the one already established in the Lab image's
+// backend/server.js (check-before-alter, idempotent) — here it's file-based rather than
+// inline, since this is a fresh schema with a real migrations/ directory instead of a single
+// growing CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS block.
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const path = require('path');
+const { Pool } = require('pg');
+
+const MIGRATIONS_DIR = path.join(__dirname, '../migrations');
+
+let _pool = null;
+function getPool() {
+  if (_pool) return _pool;
+  _pool = new Pool({
+    connectionString: process.env.PLATFORM_DB_URL || 'postgres://postgres:postgres@localhost:5433/rootnode_platform',
+  });
+  return _pool;
+}
+
+// Applies every .sql file in migrations/ that hasn't run yet, in filename order.
+// Tracked in schema_migrations so re-running is a no-op — same idempotency guarantee the
+// existing SQLite migrations already rely on.
+async function runMigrations() {
+  const pool = getPool();
+  await pool.query(`
+    CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS schema_migrations (
+      version     TEXT PRIMARY KEY,
+      applied_at  TIMESTAMPTZ NOT NULL DEFAULT now()
+    )
+  `);
+
+  const applied = new Set(
+    (await pool.query('SELECT version FROM schema_migrations')).rows.map(r => r.version)
+  );
+
+  const files = fs.readdirSync(MIGRATIONS_DIR).filter(f => f.endsWith('.sql')).sort();
+  const ranNow = [];
+  for (const file of files) {
+    if (applied.has(file)) continue;
+    const sql = fs.readFileSync(path.join(MIGRATIONS_DIR, file), 'utf8');
+    const client = await pool.connect();
+    try {
+      await client.query('BEGIN');
+      await client.query(sql);
+      await client.query('INSERT INTO schema_migrations (version) VALUES ($1)', [file]);
+      await client.query('COMMIT');
+      ranNow.push(file);
+    } catch (e) {
+      await client.query('ROLLBACK');
+      throw new Error(`Migration ${file} failed: ${e.message}`);
+    } finally {
+      client.release();
+    }
+  }
+  return ranNow;
+}
+
+module.exports = { getPool, runMigrations };

platform/provisioner/src/docker.js

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+// Lab-host abstraction (correction D) — resolves a `lab_hosts` row into a connected dockerode
+// client. Nothing in this module or its callers may assume Docker is local; the endpoint
+// always comes from a `lab_hosts` row, whether that row points at a Unix socket (Phase 1 dev)
+// or a remote TCP+TLS endpoint (production Lab Host VM, per docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §1).
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const Docker = require('dockerode');
+
+// Caches one dockerode client per lab_host_id — cheap to keep around, avoids re-parsing TLS
+// material on every call.
+const clientCache = new Map();
+
+function buildClient(labHost) {
+  if (labHost.endpoint.startsWith('unix://')) {
+    return new Docker({ socketPath: labHost.endpoint.replace('unix://', '') });
+  }
+  if (labHost.endpoint.startsWith('tcp://')) {
+    const url = new URL(labHost.endpoint.replace('tcp://', 'http://'));
+    const opts = { host: url.hostname, port: Number(url.port) || 2376, protocol: 'https' };
+    if (labHost.tls_ca_path && labHost.tls_cert_path && labHost.tls_key_path) {
+      opts.ca = fs.readFileSync(labHost.tls_ca_path);
+      opts.cert = fs.readFileSync(labHost.tls_cert_path);
+      opts.key = fs.readFileSync(labHost.tls_key_path);
+    } else {
+      // ponytail: no TLS material configured for a remote endpoint is a real misconfiguration,
+      // not a silently-degraded mode — fail loudly rather than connect unauthenticated to a
+      // remote Docker API (see docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §6 on why that cert matters
+      // as much as the Provisioner API's own shared secret).
+      throw new Error(
+        `lab_host '${labHost.lab_host_id}' has a tcp:// endpoint but no TLS cert/key/ca configured — refusing to connect unauthenticated.`
+      );
+    }
+    return new Docker(opts);
+  }
+  throw new Error(`lab_host '${labHost.lab_host_id}' has an unrecognized endpoint scheme: ${labHost.endpoint}`);
+}
+
+function clientFor(labHost) {
+  let client = clientCache.get(labHost.lab_host_id);
+  if (!client) {
+    client = buildClient(labHost);
+    clientCache.set(labHost.lab_host_id, client);
+  }
+  return client;
+}
+
+// Phase 1: no scheduler, just "the one enabled row" (docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §4).
+async function selectLabHost(pool) {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    `SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE enabled = true ORDER BY created_at ASC LIMIT 1`
+  );
+  if (!rows.length) throw new Error('No enabled lab_hosts row configured — cannot provision.');
+  return rows[0];
+}
+
+async function healthCheck(labHost) {
+  try {
+    const client = clientFor(labHost);
+    const info = await client.info();
+    return { ok: true, containers: info.Containers, serverVersion: info.ServerVersion };
+  } catch (e) {
+    return { ok: false, error: e.message };
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = { clientFor, selectLabHost, healthCheck };

platform/provisioner/src/egress.js

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+// Per-environment firewall chain management — the actual security enforcement for egress
+// (correction B: HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY are configuration, not the control; this is the
+// control). See docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §5 for the full design and the ordering
+// bug this replaces.
+//
+// Each environment gets its own dedicated chain, built with -A (append — order-preserving,
+// no head-insertion trap), reached from DOCKER-USER by exactly one jump rule matching that
+// student's subnet. Requires the process to have NET_ADMIN/NET_RAW and see the host network
+// namespace (in production: the Provisioner running on/against the Lab Host; in Phase 1 dev:
+// a --network host --cap-add=NET_ADMIN --cap-add=NET_RAW container — see
+// platform/provisioner/docker-compose.dev.yml).
+
+const { execFile } = require('child_process');
+const { promisify } = require('util');
+const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
+
+const RFC1918_RANGES = ['10.0.0.0/8', '172.16.0.0/12', '192.168.0.0/16'];
+
+function chainName(environmentId) {
+  // iptables chain names top out around 28 chars on the legacy backend — keep this well
+  // under that. Deterministic from the environment id so setup/teardown always agree.
+  const shortId = environmentId.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+  return `ROOTNODE-ENV-${shortId}`;
+}
+
+async function iptables(args) {
+  try {
+    return await execFileAsync('iptables', args);
+  } catch (e) {
+    throw new Error(`iptables ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${e.stderr || e.message}`);
+  }
+}
+
+// Best-effort — used during teardown/cleanup where "already gone" is a success, not a failure.
+async function iptablesIgnoreMissing(args) {
+  try {
+    await execFileAsync('iptables', args);
+  } catch (e) {
+    // "No chain/target/match by that name" (ENOENT-equivalent for iptables) is fine on cleanup.
+    if (!/No chain|does not exist|matching rule exist/i.test(e.stderr || '')) {
+      throw new Error(`iptables ${args.join(' ')} failed: ${e.stderr || e.message}`);
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Installs the egress chain for one environment and hooks it into DOCKER-USER.
+ * @param {object} opts
+ * @param {string} opts.environmentId
+ * @param {string} opts.subnet          - e.g. '172.19.0.0/24' (from docker network inspect)
+ * @param {string} opts.egressProxyHost
+ * @param {number} opts.egressProxyPort
+ * @param {string} opts.dnsResolver
+ * @param {string[]} [opts.extraAllowedHosts] - explicitly-required Platform endpoints, if any
+ */
+async function setupEgressChain({ environmentId, subnet, egressProxyHost, egressProxyPort, dnsResolver, extraAllowedHosts = [] }) {
+  const chain = chainName(environmentId);
+
+  await iptables(['-N', chain]);
+
+  // Required infrastructure — explicitly permitted FIRST, before any blanket deny.
+  await iptables(['-A', chain, '-d', egressProxyHost, '-p', 'tcp', '--dport', String(egressProxyPort), '-j', 'ACCEPT']);
+  await iptables(['-A', chain, '-d', dnsResolver, '-p', 'udp', '--dport', '53', '-j', 'ACCEPT']);
+  await iptables(['-A', chain, '-d', dnsResolver, '-p', 'tcp', '--dport', '53', '-j', 'ACCEPT']);
+  for (const host of extraAllowedHosts) {
+    await iptables(['-A', chain, '-d', host, '-j', 'ACCEPT']);
+  }
+
+  // Everything that must never be reachable, regardless of the above — unconditional.
+  for (const range of RFC1918_RANGES) {
+    await iptables(['-A', chain, '-d', range, '-j', 'DROP']);
+  }
+  await iptables(['-A', chain, '-j', 'DROP']); // default deny — catches the public internet too
+
+  // Hook this student's subnet into the chain. -I is intentional here: new environments'
+  // jump rules should be evaluated ahead of any broader, pre-existing DOCKER-USER rule.
+  // Since every environment matches a disjoint source subnet, the order of jump rules
+  // relative to each other never matters.
+  await iptables(['-I', 'DOCKER-USER', '-s', subnet, '-j', chain]);
+
+  return { chain };
+}
+
+async function teardownEgressChain({ environmentId, subnet }) {
+  const chain = chainName(environmentId);
+  await iptablesIgnoreMissing(['-D', 'DOCKER-USER', '-s', subnet, '-j', chain]);
+  await iptablesIgnoreMissing(['-F', chain]);
+  await iptablesIgnoreMissing(['-X', chain]);
+  return { chain };
+}
+
+async function chainExists(environmentId) {
+  const chain = chainName(environmentId);
+  try {
+    await execFileAsync('iptables', ['-L', chain, '-n']);
+    return true;
+  } catch {
+    return false;
+  }
+}
+
+module.exports = { chainName, setupEgressChain, teardownEgressChain, chainExists, RFC1918_RANGES };

platform/provisioner/src/lifecycle.js

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+// Environment lifecycle orchestration — the state machine from
+// docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §3, wired to docker.js (lab-host abstraction), egress.js
+// (firewall), and db.js (registry + audit).
+//
+// Guaranteed path: requested -> provisioning -> running -> resetting -> running
+//                  (provisioning|running|error) -> destroying -> destroyed
+// Suspend/resume is experimental only (decision #3 / correction A) — see suspendEnvironment/
+// resumeEnvironment below, both explicitly opt-in and never on the guaranteed path.
+
+const crypto = require('crypto');
+const http = require('http');
+const { selectLabHost, clientFor } = require('./docker');
+const { setupEgressChain, teardownEgressChain } = require('./egress');
+
+function shortId(environmentId) {
+  return environmentId.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+}
+
+function generateRoutingToken() {
+  return crypto.randomBytes(32).toString('base64url'); // opaque, CSPRNG, URL-safe
+}
+
+// Never let a routing token reach the audit log in plaintext (requirement #9).
+function redact(detail) {
+  if (!detail || typeof detail !== 'object') return detail;
+  const copy = { ...detail };
+  if (copy.routing_token) copy.routing_token = '[redacted]';
+  return copy;
+}
+
+async function emitEvent(pool, environmentId, eventType, actor, detail = null) {
+  await pool.query(
+    `INSERT INTO environment_events (environment_id, event_type, actor, detail) VALUES ($1, $2, $3, $4)`,
+    [environmentId, eventType, actor, detail ? JSON.stringify(redact(detail)) : null]
+  );
+}
+
+async function getEnvironment(pool, environmentId) {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM environments WHERE environment_id = $1', [environmentId]);
+  return rows[0] || null;
+}
+
+async function listEnvironments(pool, studentId) {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    'SELECT * FROM environments WHERE student_id = $1 ORDER BY created_at DESC',
+    [studentId]
+  );
+  return rows;
+}
+
+async function getActiveEnvironmentForStudent(pool, studentId) {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    `SELECT * FROM environments WHERE student_id = $1
+     AND status NOT IN ('destroyed', 'error') ORDER BY created_at DESC LIMIT 1`,
+    [studentId]
+  );
+  return rows[0] || null;
+}
+
+async function pollHealth(ip, port, path, timeoutMs) {
+  const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
+  while (Date.now() < deadline) {
+    const ok = await new Promise((resolve) => {
+      const req = http.get({ host: ip, port, path, timeout: 2000 }, (res) => {
+        res.resume();
+        resolve(res.statusCode >= 200 && res.statusCode < 300);
+      });
+      req.on('error', () => resolve(false));
+      req.on('timeout', () => { req.destroy(); resolve(false); });
+    });
+    if (ok) return true;
+    await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 2000));
+  }
+  return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * provision — the full requested -> provisioning -> running (or error) path.
+ * @param {object} opts
+ * @param {import('pg').Pool} opts.pool
+ * @param {string} opts.studentId          - opaque, not validated against a roster (correction C)
+ * @param {object} opts.resourcePolicy     - { cpuLimit, memLimitMb, pidsLimit, storageLimitMb }
+ * @param {string} opts.imageRef
+ * @param {object} opts.egressConfig       - { proxyHost, proxyPort, dnsResolver, extraAllowedHosts, noProxyCidrs }
+ * @param {object} [opts.health]           - { path='/api/health', timeoutMs=120000 } — overridable for testing
+ */
+async function provisionEnvironment({ pool, studentId, resourcePolicy, imageRef, egressConfig, health = {} }) {
+  const existing = await getActiveEnvironmentForStudent(pool, studentId);
+  if (existing) {
+    throw Object.assign(new Error(`student '${studentId}' already has a non-terminal environment (${existing.environment_id})`), { code: 'ALREADY_EXISTS', existing });
+  }
+
+  const labHost = await selectLabHost(pool);
+  const docker = clientFor(labHost);
+  const routingToken = generateRoutingToken();
+
+  const insertResult = await pool.query(
+    `INSERT INTO environments
+       (student_id, lab_host_id, status, routing_token, image_ref, cpu_limit, mem_limit_mb, pids_limit, storage_limit_mb)
+     VALUES ($1, $2, 'requested', $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8)
+     RETURNING *`,
+    [studentId, labHost.lab_host_id, routingToken, imageRef,
+      resourcePolicy.cpuLimit, resourcePolicy.memLimitMb, resourcePolicy.pidsLimit, resourcePolicy.storageLimitMb]
+  );
+  const env = insertResult.rows[0];
+  await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'provision_requested', 'system', { student_id: studentId });
+  await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'host_selected', 'system', { lab_host_id: labHost.lab_host_id });
+
+  try {
+    await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'provisioning' WHERE environment_id = $1`, [env.environment_id]);
+
+    const id = shortId(env.environment_id);
+    const networkName = `rootnode-lab-net-${id}`;
+    const containerName = `rootnode-lab-${id}`;
+
+    // Network
+    const network = await docker.createNetwork({ Name: networkName, Driver: 'bridge' });
+    const netInfo = await network.inspect();
+    const subnet = netInfo.IPAM.Config[0].Subnet;
+    // The egress proxy runs with host networking (see docker-compose.dev.yml), so it's present
+    // on every bridge network's gateway interface — that gateway IP, not a fixed hostname, is
+    // what's actually reachable from *this* environment's private network. Resolving it per
+    // network (rather than one static proxyHost) is what makes the proxy reachable at all once
+    // there's more than one isolated student network.
+    const proxyHost = netInfo.IPAM.Config[0].Gateway;
+    await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE environments SET network_id = $1, network_name = $2, network_subnet = $3 WHERE environment_id = $4`,
+      [network.id, networkName, subnet, env.environment_id]
+    );
+    await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'network_created', 'system', { network_name: networkName, subnet });
+
+    // Firewall — installed before the container starts, so there's never a window where the
+    // container has network access but no restriction in place.
+    await setupEgressChain({
+      environmentId: env.environment_id,
+      subnet,
+      egressProxyHost: proxyHost,
+      egressProxyPort: egressConfig.proxyPort,
+      dnsResolver: egressConfig.dnsResolver,
+      extraAllowedHosts: egressConfig.extraAllowedHosts || [],
+    });
+    await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'firewall_configured', 'system', { subnet });
+
+    // Container
+    const container = await docker.createContainer({
+      name: containerName,
+      Image: imageRef,
+      HostConfig: {
+        Privileged: true, // required for k3s — see docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §7, not avoidable
+        NetworkMode: networkName,
+        NanoCpus: Math.round(resourcePolicy.cpuLimit * 1e9),
+        Memory: resourcePolicy.memLimitMb * 1024 * 1024,
+        MemorySwap: resourcePolicy.memLimitMb * 1024 * 1024, // pinned equal to Memory — no swap
+        PidsLimit: resourcePolicy.pidsLimit,
+        PublishAllPorts: false, // no public host port mappings — requirement #5
+        StorageOpt: resourcePolicy.storageLimitMb ? { size: `${resourcePolicy.storageLimitMb}m` } : undefined,
+      },
+      Env: [
+        `HTTP_PROXY=http://${proxyHost}:${egressConfig.proxyPort}`,
+        `HTTPS_PROXY=http://${proxyHost}:${egressConfig.proxyPort}`,
+        `NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,${(egressConfig.noProxyCidrs || []).join(',')}`,
+      ],
+    });
+    await container.start();
+    const containerInfo = await container.inspect();
+    const internalIp = containerInfo.NetworkSettings.Networks[networkName].IPAddress;
+
+    await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE environments SET container_id = $1, container_name = $2, internal_ip = $3, started_at = now() WHERE environment_id = $4`,
+      [container.id, containerName, internalIp, env.environment_id]
+    );
+    await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'container_created', 'system', { container_name: containerName, internal_ip: internalIp });
+
+    // Readiness
+    const healthPath = health.path || '/api/health';
+    const timeoutMs = health.timeoutMs || 120000;
+    const ready = await pollHealth(internalIp, env.internal_port, healthPath, timeoutMs);
+    if (!ready) {
+      throw new Error(`environment ${env.environment_id} did not become ready within ${timeoutMs}ms`);
+    }
+
+    const { rows } = await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE environments SET status = 'running', last_active_at = now() WHERE environment_id = $1 RETURNING *`,
+      [env.environment_id]
+    );
+    await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'ready', 'system', {});
+    return rows[0];
+  } catch (e) {
+    // Best-effort teardown of whatever got created before the failure — a provisioning
+    // failure must not leave an orphaned container/network/firewall chain running
+    // indefinitely. Found by testing: a readiness timeout left a real container and firewall
+    // chain in place with only the DB row marked 'error', which is exactly the kind of
+    // resource leak requirement #10 (idle reaper) exists to prevent — except this environment
+    // never reaches 'running', so it would never have had a last_active_at to age out on
+    // (see the reaper fix in reaper.js). Cleaning up here directly is more honest than relying
+    // on the reaper to catch a case it wasn't actually able to catch.
+    try {
+      const fresh = await getEnvironment(pool, env.environment_id);
+      const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [fresh.lab_host_id]);
+      const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+      if (fresh.container_id) {
+        await docker.getContainer(fresh.container_id).remove({ force: true }).catch(() => {});
+      }
+      if (fresh.network_subnet) {
+        await teardownEgressChain({ environmentId: fresh.environment_id, subnet: fresh.network_subnet }).catch(() => {});
+      }
+      if (fresh.network_id) {
+        await docker.getNetwork(fresh.network_id).remove().catch(() => {});
+      }
+    } catch (cleanupErr) {
+      // Cleanup itself failing is exactly what the reaper's COALESCE(last_active_at,
+      // created_at) fallback exists to catch eventually — log and move on, don't mask the
+      // original provisioning error with a cleanup error.
+      await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { stage: 'provision_failure_cleanup', message: cleanupErr.message }).catch(() => {});
+    }
+
+    await pool.query(
+      `UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = $1 WHERE environment_id = $2`,
+      [e.message, env.environment_id]
+    );
+    await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { message: e.message });
+    throw e;
+  }
+}
+
+/**
+ * destroy — stop+remove container, remove network+firewall chain, mark destroyed.
+ * Never touches academic data — that lives entirely outside the Lab (Platform SQLite today,
+ * see docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §3) — destroying an environment is purely infrastructure teardown.
+ */
+async function destroyEnvironment({ pool, environmentId, actor = 'system' }) {
+  const env = await getEnvironment(pool, environmentId);
+  if (!env) throw Object.assign(new Error('environment not found'), { code: 'NOT_FOUND' });
+  if (env.status === 'destroyed') return env;
+
+  await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'destroying' WHERE environment_id = $1`, [environmentId]);
+
+  const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [env.lab_host_id]);
+  const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+
+  if (env.container_id) {
+    try {
+      const container = docker.getContainer(env.container_id);
+      await container.stop({ t: 10 }).catch(() => {}); // already stopped/gone is fine
+      await container.remove({ force: true }).catch(() => {});
+    } catch (e) {
+      // Container already gone — proceed with cleanup regardless (failure-safe, per requirement #10).
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (env.network_subnet) {
+    await teardownEgressChain({ environmentId: env.environment_id, subnet: env.network_subnet }).catch((e) => {
+      // Log via event but don't block destroy on firewall cleanup failure — an orphaned
+      // per-env chain for a destroyed environment is a cleanup task, not a live security hole
+      // (its subnet is no longer bound to any running container).
+      return emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'error', actor, { stage: 'firewall_teardown', message: e.message });
+    });
+  }
+
+  if (env.network_id) {
+    try {
+      await docker.getNetwork(env.network_id).remove();
+    } catch (e) { /* already gone is fine */ }
+  }
+
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    `UPDATE environments SET status = 'destroyed' WHERE environment_id = $1 RETURNING *`,
+    [environmentId]
+  );
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'destroyed', actor, {});
+  return rows[0];
+}
+
+/**
+ * reset — destroy + provision again, same environment_id/routing_token (same DB row).
+ */
+async function resetEnvironment({ pool, environmentId, resourcePolicy, egressConfig, health, actor = 'system' }) {
+  const env = await getEnvironment(pool, environmentId);
+  if (!env) throw Object.assign(new Error('environment not found'), { code: 'NOT_FOUND' });
+
+  await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'resetting' WHERE environment_id = $1`, [environmentId]);
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'reset', actor, {});
+
+  const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [env.lab_host_id]);
+  const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+
+  if (env.container_id) {
+    const container = docker.getContainer(env.container_id);
+    await container.stop({ t: 10 }).catch(() => {});
+    await container.remove({ force: true }).catch(() => {});
+  }
+  if (env.network_subnet) {
+    await teardownEgressChain({ environmentId: env.environment_id, subnet: env.network_subnet }).catch(() => {});
+  }
+  if (env.network_id) {
+    await docker.getNetwork(env.network_id).remove().catch(() => {});
+  }
+
+  // Recreate against the SAME row: same environment_id/routing_token, fresh everything else.
+  const id = shortId(env.environment_id);
+  const networkName = `rootnode-lab-net-${id}`;
+  const containerName = `rootnode-lab-${id}`;
+
+  const network = await docker.createNetwork({ Name: networkName, Driver: 'bridge' });
+  const netInfo = await network.inspect();
+  const subnet = netInfo.IPAM.Config[0].Subnet;
+  const proxyHost = netInfo.IPAM.Config[0].Gateway; // see provisionEnvironment for why this is per-network, not static
+  await pool.query(
+    `UPDATE environments SET network_id = $1, network_name = $2, network_subnet = $3, container_id = NULL, container_name = NULL, internal_ip = NULL, error_reason = NULL WHERE environment_id = $4`,
+    [network.id, networkName, subnet, environmentId]
+  );
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'network_created', actor, { network_name: networkName, subnet });
+
+  await setupEgressChain({
+    environmentId, subnet,
+    egressProxyHost: proxyHost, egressProxyPort: egressConfig.proxyPort,
+    dnsResolver: egressConfig.dnsResolver, extraAllowedHosts: egressConfig.extraAllowedHosts || [],
+  });
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'firewall_configured', actor, { subnet });
+
+  const container = await docker.createContainer({
+    name: containerName,
+    Image: env.image_ref,
+    HostConfig: {
+      Privileged: true,
+      NetworkMode: networkName,
+      NanoCpus: Math.round(Number(env.cpu_limit) * 1e9),
+      Memory: env.mem_limit_mb * 1024 * 1024,
+      MemorySwap: env.mem_limit_mb * 1024 * 1024,
+      PidsLimit: env.pids_limit,
+      PublishAllPorts: false,
+      StorageOpt: env.storage_limit_mb ? { size: `${env.storage_limit_mb}m` } : undefined,
+    },
+    Env: [
+      `HTTP_PROXY=http://${proxyHost}:${egressConfig.proxyPort}`,
+      `HTTPS_PROXY=http://${proxyHost}:${egressConfig.proxyPort}`,
+      `NO_PROXY=localhost,127.0.0.1,${(egressConfig.noProxyCidrs || []).join(',')}`,
+    ],
+  });
+  await container.start();
+  const containerInfo = await container.inspect();
+  const internalIp = containerInfo.NetworkSettings.Networks[networkName].IPAddress;
+  await pool.query(
+    `UPDATE environments SET container_id = $1, container_name = $2, internal_ip = $3, started_at = now() WHERE environment_id = $4`,
+    [container.id, containerName, internalIp, environmentId]
+  );
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'container_created', actor, { container_name: containerName, internal_ip: internalIp });
+
+  const healthPath = (health && health.path) || '/api/health';
+  const timeoutMs = (health && health.timeoutMs) || 120000;
+  const ready = await pollHealth(internalIp, env.internal_port, healthPath, timeoutMs);
+  if (!ready) {
+    await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = $1 WHERE environment_id = $2`,
+      [`reset: did not become ready within ${timeoutMs}ms`, environmentId]);
+    await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'error', actor, { stage: 'reset_readiness' });
+    throw new Error(`environment ${environmentId} did not become ready after reset`);
+  }
+
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    `UPDATE environments SET status = 'running', last_active_at = now() WHERE environment_id = $1 RETURNING *`,
+    [environmentId]
+  );
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'ready', actor, {});
+  return rows[0];
+}
+
+// ── Suspend/resume — EXPERIMENTAL ONLY (decision #3 / correction A) ────────────────────────
+// Never called by the reaper or any guaranteed-path logic. Exists so the test plan
+// (docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §8 test 7) can measure whether it's viable at all.
+
+async function suspendEnvironment({ pool, environmentId, actor = 'system' }) {
+  const env = await getEnvironment(pool, environmentId);
+  if (!env) throw Object.assign(new Error('environment not found'), { code: 'NOT_FOUND' });
+  const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [env.lab_host_id]);
+  const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+  await docker.getContainer(env.container_id).stop({ t: 10 });
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'suspended' WHERE environment_id = $1 RETURNING *`, [environmentId]);
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'suspend', actor, { experimental: true });
+  return rows[0];
+}
+
+async function resumeEnvironment({ pool, environmentId, health = {}, actor = 'system' }) {
+  const env = await getEnvironment(pool, environmentId);
+  if (!env) throw Object.assign(new Error('environment not found'), { code: 'NOT_FOUND' });
+  const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [env.lab_host_id]);
+  const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+  await docker.getContainer(env.container_id).start();
+
+  const healthPath = health.path || '/api/health';
+  const timeoutMs = health.timeoutMs || 120000;
+  const ready = await pollHealth(env.internal_ip, env.internal_port, healthPath, timeoutMs);
+  if (!ready) {
+    await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = 'resume: did not become ready' WHERE environment_id = $1`, [environmentId]);
+    await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'error', actor, { stage: 'resume_readiness', experimental: true });
+    throw new Error(`environment ${environmentId} did not become ready after resume (suspend/resume is experimental — see decision #3)`);
+  }
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'running', last_active_at = now() WHERE environment_id = $1 RETURNING *`, [environmentId]);
+  await emitEvent(pool, environmentId, 'resume', actor, { experimental: true });
+  return rows[0];
+}
+
+// ── Reconciliation on startup — docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md §8 ────────────────────────────────
+// "On Provisioner restart, it must reconcile its registry against actual running containers
+// rather than trust stale DB state." Anything the registry claims is running/in-flight that
+// isn't actually running on its lab host gets marked error, not silently left wrong.
+async function reconcileOnStartup(pool) {
+  const { rows } = await pool.query(
+    `SELECT * FROM environments WHERE status IN ('provisioning', 'running', 'resetting', 'destroying', 'suspended')`
+  );
+  const results = { checked: rows.length, flagged: 0, ok: 0 };
+  for (const env of rows) {
+    try {
+      const labHostRes = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE lab_host_id = $1', [env.lab_host_id]);
+      if (!labHostRes.rows.length) {
+        await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = $1 WHERE environment_id = $2`,
+          ['reconcile: lab_host no longer configured', env.environment_id]);
+        await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { stage: 'reconcile', reason: 'lab_host missing' });
+        results.flagged++;
+        continue;
+      }
+      const docker = clientFor(labHostRes.rows[0]);
+      let actuallyRunning = false;
+      if (env.container_id) {
+        try {
+          const info = await docker.getContainer(env.container_id).inspect();
+          actuallyRunning = info.State && info.State.Running;
+        } catch {
+          actuallyRunning = false; // container doesn't exist on this host at all
+        }
+      }
+      const expectedRunning = env.status === 'running' || env.status === 'suspended';
+      if (expectedRunning && !actuallyRunning) {
+        await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = $1 WHERE environment_id = $2`,
+          ['reconcile: DB claimed running/suspended but container is not actually running', env.environment_id]);
+        await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { stage: 'reconcile', reason: 'container not running' });
+        results.flagged++;
+      } else if (['provisioning', 'resetting', 'destroying'].includes(env.status)) {
+        // Any environment caught mid-transition by a Provisioner crash/restart is not
+        // trustworthy either way — never silently assume it finished.
+        await pool.query(`UPDATE environments SET status = 'error', error_reason = $1 WHERE environment_id = $2`,
+          [`reconcile: caught mid-transition (${env.status}) on restart`, env.environment_id]);
+        await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { stage: 'reconcile', reason: `mid-transition:${env.status}` });
+        results.flagged++;
+      } else {
+        results.ok++;
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      await emitEvent(pool, env.environment_id, 'error', 'system', { stage: 'reconcile', message: e.message }).catch(() => {});
+      results.flagged++;
+    }
+  }
+  return results;
+}
+
+module.exports = {
+  generateRoutingToken, emitEvent, getEnvironment, listEnvironments, getActiveEnvironmentForStudent,
+  provisionEnvironment, destroyEnvironment, resetEnvironment,
+  suspendEnvironment, resumeEnvironment, pollHealth, shortId, reconcileOnStartup,
+};

platform/provisioner/src/reaper.js

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+// Idle reaper — requirement #10. Without this, "ephemeral by default" is just a description:
+// a closed browser tab does not stop a running k3s cluster on its own.
+//
+// Two thresholds, both config-driven (never hard-coded):
+//  - idleThresholdMinutes  — past this, log a warning event only (future: notify student).
+//  - abandonedThresholdMinutes — past this, destroy for real via the same path DELETE
+//    /environments/:id uses, so cleanup is identical either way.
+//
+// Uses COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at): an environment that never reached 'running' has
+// a NULL last_active_at, and `NULL < ...` is never true in SQL — without this fallback, an
+// environment stuck in 'error' from a failed provision would never age out here at all. This
+// is a second, independent safety net on top of provisionEnvironment's own best-effort cleanup
+// on failure (lifecycle.js) — found by testing, not designed in from the start.
+//
+// Failure-safe: one environment's teardown throwing never stops the reaper from checking the
+// rest, and a Postgres/Docker hiccup on one tick just means "try again next tick" rather than
+// crashing the process.
+
+const { destroyEnvironment, emitEvent } = require('./lifecycle');
+
+function startReaper({ pool, idleThresholdMinutes, abandonedThresholdMinutes, pollIntervalSeconds }) {
+  let stopped = false;
+  let timer = null;
+
+  async function tick() {
+    if (stopped) return;
+    try {
+      const idleRows = await pool.query(
+        `SELECT environment_id FROM environments
+         WHERE status = 'running'
+           AND COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at) < now() - ($1 || ' minutes')::interval
+           AND COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at) >= now() - ($2 || ' minutes')::interval`,
+        [String(idleThresholdMinutes), String(abandonedThresholdMinutes)]
+      );
+      for (const row of idleRows.rows) {
+        await emitEvent(pool, row.environment_id, 'idle_warning', 'reaper', { idleThresholdMinutes }).catch(() => {});
+      }
+
+      const abandonedRows = await pool.query(
+        `SELECT environment_id FROM environments
+         WHERE status IN ('running', 'error')
+           AND COALESCE(last_active_at, created_at) < now() - ($1 || ' minutes')::interval`,
+        [String(abandonedThresholdMinutes)]
+      );
+      for (const row of abandonedRows.rows) {
+        try {
+          await destroyEnvironment({ pool, environmentId: row.environment_id, actor: 'reaper' });
+          await emitEvent(pool, row.environment_id, 'reaped_idle', 'reaper', { abandonedThresholdMinutes });
+        } catch (e) {
+          // One bad environment must not stop the reaper from handling the rest.
+          await emitEvent(pool, row.environment_id, 'error', 'reaper', { stage: 'reap', message: e.message }).catch(() => {});
+        }
+      }
+    } catch (e) {
+      // Postgres/Docker unreachable this tick — try again next tick, don't crash the process.
+      console.error('[reaper] tick failed:', e.message);
+    } finally {
+      if (!stopped) timer = setTimeout(tick, pollIntervalSeconds * 1000);
+    }
+  }
+
+  timer = setTimeout(tick, 0);
+  return {
+    stop() {
+      stopped = true;
+      if (timer) clearTimeout(timer);
+    },
+  };
+}
+
+module.exports = { startReaper };

platform/provisioner/src/server.js

@@ -0,0 +1,214 @@
+// RootNode Academy — Phase 1 Provisioner API.
+// Internal-only (requirement #3/#8) — every route below requires X-Provisioner-Key. Nothing
+// here is reachable by a student or the public internet in this phase; there's no frontend/
+// Gateway wiring yet, so this is exercised directly (curl / the test suite in test/run.js).
+//
+// See docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §4 for the approved route list this implements.
+
+const express = require('express');
+const { randomUUID } = require('crypto');
+const { getPool, runMigrations } = require('./db');
+const { applyLabHostsSeed, getResourcePolicy, reloadResourcePolicy } = require('./config');
+const { healthCheck: dockerHealthCheck } = require('./docker');
+const lifecycle = require('./lifecycle');
+const { startReaper } = require('./reaper');
+
+const PORT = Number(process.env.PROVISIONER_PORT) || 4100;
+const SHARED_SECRET = process.env.PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET;
+const LAB_IMAGE_REF = process.env.LAB_IMAGE_REF || 'rootnode-academy:test';
+// No fixed EGRESS_PROXY_HOST: the proxy runs with host networking and is reached via each
+// environment's own network gateway IP, resolved per-environment in lifecycle.js — a single
+// static hostname wouldn't be reachable from every isolated student network. Only the port
+// is fixed/shared.
+const EGRESS_PROXY_PORT = Number(process.env.EGRESS_PROXY_PORT) || 3128;
+const DNS_RESOLVER = process.env.DNS_RESOLVER || '127.0.0.11'; // Docker's embedded DNS by default
+const NO_PROXY_CIDRS = (process.env.NO_PROXY_CIDRS || '10.42.0.0/16,10.43.0.0/16').split(',');
+
+if (!SHARED_SECRET) {
+  console.error('FATAL: PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET is not set. Refusing to start with an unauthenticated internal API.');
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+function egressConfig() {
+  return {
+    proxyPort: EGRESS_PROXY_PORT,
+    dnsResolver: DNS_RESOLVER,
+    extraAllowedHosts: [], // none required in Phase 1 — the Lab image doesn't call back to the Platform yet
+    noProxyCidrs: NO_PROXY_CIDRS,
+  };
+}
+
+function resourcePolicyFor() {
+  const policy = getResourcePolicy().default;
+  return {
+    cpuLimit: policy.cpu_limit,
+    memLimitMb: policy.mem_limit_mb,
+    pidsLimit: policy.pids_limit,
+    storageLimitMb: policy.storage_limit_mb,
+  };
+}
+
+function healthOpts() {
+  const hc = getResourcePolicy().health_check || {};
+  return { path: hc.path || '/api/health', timeoutMs: hc.timeout_ms || 120000 };
+}
+
+const app = express();
+app.use(express.json());
+
+// Every request gets a request id for structured error correlation, and every response is
+// JSON — no HTML error pages, no leaking stack traces to a caller.
+app.use((req, res, next) => {
+  req.requestId = randomUUID();
+  next();
+});
+
+function requireAuth(req, res, next) {
+  const key = req.get('X-Provisioner-Key');
+  if (!key || key !== SHARED_SECRET) {
+    return res.status(401).json({ error: 'unauthorized', request_id: req.requestId });
+  }
+  next();
+}
+
+function isValidStudentId(v) {
+  return typeof v === 'string' && v.length > 0 && v.length <= 128 && /^[a-zA-Z0-9_.-]+$/.test(v);
+}
+function isValidUUID(v) {
+  return typeof v === 'string' && /^[0-9a-f]{8}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{4}-[0-9a-f]{12}$/i.test(v);
+}
+
+function asyncRoute(fn) {
+  return (req, res) => fn(req, res).catch((e) => {
+    console.error(`[${req.requestId}]`, e);
+    const status = e.code === 'NOT_FOUND' ? 404 : e.code === 'ALREADY_EXISTS' ? 409 : 500;
+    res.status(status).json({ error: e.message, code: e.code || 'INTERNAL', request_id: req.requestId });
+  });
+}
+
+app.use(requireAuth);
+
+// GET /health — Provisioner's own health: Docker reachable, Postgres reachable.
+app.get('/health', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  const pool = getPool();
+  const dbOk = await pool.query('SELECT 1').then(() => true).catch(() => false);
+  const labHosts = await pool.query('SELECT * FROM lab_hosts WHERE enabled = true').catch(() => ({ rows: [] }));
+  const hostChecks = await Promise.all(labHosts.rows.map(async (h) => ({ lab_host_id: h.lab_host_id, ...(await dockerHealthCheck(h)) })));
+  const ok = dbOk && hostChecks.every((h) => h.ok);
+  res.status(ok ? 200 : 503).json({ ok, db: dbOk, lab_hosts: hostChecks });
+}));
+
+// POST /environments — { student_id }
+app.post('/environments', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  const { student_id } = req.body || {};
+  if (!isValidStudentId(student_id)) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'student_id is required and must be a simple identifier', request_id: req.requestId });
+  }
+  const env = await lifecycle.provisionEnvironment({
+    pool: getPool(),
+    studentId: student_id,
+    resourcePolicy: resourcePolicyFor(),
+    imageRef: LAB_IMAGE_REF,
+    egressConfig: egressConfig(),
+    health: healthOpts(),
+  });
+  res.status(201).json({ environment_id: env.environment_id, status: env.status, routing_token: env.routing_token });
+}));
+
+// GET /environments?student_id=
+app.get('/environments', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  const { student_id } = req.query;
+  if (!isValidStudentId(student_id)) {
+    return res.status(400).json({ error: 'student_id query param is required', request_id: req.requestId });
+  }
+  const envs = await lifecycle.listEnvironments(getPool(), student_id);
+  res.json(envs.map(redactRow));
+}));
+
+// GET /environments/:id
+app.get('/environments/:id', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const env = await lifecycle.getEnvironment(getPool(), req.params.id);
+  if (!env) return res.status(404).json({ error: 'not found', request_id: req.requestId });
+  res.json(redactRow(env));
+}));
+
+// POST /environments/:id/reset
+app.post('/environments/:id/reset', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const env = await lifecycle.resetEnvironment({
+    pool: getPool(), environmentId: req.params.id,
+    resourcePolicy: resourcePolicyFor(), egressConfig: egressConfig(), health: healthOpts(),
+    actor: req.get('X-Actor') || 'system',
+  });
+  res.json(redactRow(env));
+}));
+
+// DELETE /environments/:id
+app.delete('/environments/:id', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const env = await lifecycle.destroyEnvironment({ pool: getPool(), environmentId: req.params.id, actor: req.get('X-Actor') || 'system' });
+  res.json(redactRow(env));
+}));
+
+// POST /environments/:id/suspend — EXPERIMENTAL, see decision #3 / correction A.
+app.post('/environments/:id/suspend', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const env = await lifecycle.suspendEnvironment({ pool: getPool(), environmentId: req.params.id, actor: req.get('X-Actor') || 'system' });
+  res.json({ ...redactRow(env), experimental: true });
+}));
+
+// POST /environments/:id/resume — EXPERIMENTAL, see decision #3 / correction A.
+app.post('/environments/:id/resume', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const env = await lifecycle.resumeEnvironment({ pool: getPool(), environmentId: req.params.id, health: healthOpts(), actor: req.get('X-Actor') || 'system' });
+  res.json({ ...redactRow(env), experimental: true });
+}));
+
+// GET /environments/:id/events
+app.get('/environments/:id/events', asyncRoute(async (req, res) => {
+  if (!isValidUUID(req.params.id)) return res.status(400).json({ error: 'invalid environment id', request_id: req.requestId });
+  const { rows } = await getPool().query(
+    'SELECT id, event_type, actor, detail, created_at FROM environment_events WHERE environment_id = $1 ORDER BY created_at ASC',
+    [req.params.id]
+  );
+  res.json(rows);
+}));
+
+function redactRow(env) {
+  const { routing_token, ...rest } = env;
+  return { ...rest, routing_token: routing_token ? '[redacted]' : null };
+}
+
+process.on('SIGHUP', () => {
+  console.log('SIGHUP received, reloading resource-policy.yaml');
+  try { reloadResourcePolicy(); } catch (e) { console.error('reload failed:', e.message); }
+});
+
+async function main() {
+  const pool = getPool();
+  const applied = await runMigrations();
+  if (applied.length) console.log('Applied migrations:', applied.join(', '));
+  const seeded = await applyLabHostsSeed(pool);
+  console.log(`Applied lab_hosts seed (${seeded} row(s))`);
+
+  const reconcileResult = await lifecycle.reconcileOnStartup(pool);
+  console.log(`Startup reconciliation: checked=${reconcileResult.checked} ok=${reconcileResult.ok} flagged=${reconcileResult.flagged}`);
+
+  const policy = getResourcePolicy();
+  const reaper = startReaper({
+    pool,
+    idleThresholdMinutes: policy.idle_threshold_minutes,
+    abandonedThresholdMinutes: policy.abandoned_threshold_minutes,
+    pollIntervalSeconds: policy.reaper_poll_interval_seconds,
+  });
+  process.on('SIGTERM', () => { reaper.stop(); process.exit(0); });
+
+  app.listen(PORT, () => console.log(`Provisioner API listening on :${PORT}`));
+}
+
+if (require.main === module) {
+  main().catch((e) => { console.error('FATAL:', e); process.exit(1); });
+}
+
+module.exports = { app, main };

platform/provisioner/test/run.js

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Phase 1 integration test suite — runs against a live docker-compose.dev.yml stack.
+// Mirrors the manual verification run during implementation (see docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md
+// §8 and the final report in the Phase 1 PR/commit history). No framework — assert-based, per
+// project convention (ponytail: no test frameworks unless the project already has one; this
+// one doesn't).
+//
+// Usage:
+//   cd platform/provisioner
+//   docker compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up -d
+//   PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET=<from .env> LAB_IMAGE_REF=rootnode-academy:test node test/run.js
+//
+// Defaults to the lightweight fake-lab test image (LAB_IMAGE_REF) for speed — the mechanics
+// under test here (network/container/firewall/registry lifecycle) don't depend on what's
+// running inside the container. The real Lab image (k3s) was validated separately by hand —
+// see the "cannot be fully automated here" note at the bottom of this file.
+
+const assert = require('assert');
+const { execFile } = require('child_process');
+const { promisify } = require('util');
+const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
+
+const BASE = process.env.PROVISIONER_URL || 'http://localhost:4100';
+const KEY = process.env.PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET;
+if (!KEY) { console.error('Set PROVISIONER_SHARED_SECRET'); process.exit(1); }
+
+async function api(method, path, body) {
+  const res = await fetch(`${BASE}${path}`, {
+    method,
+    headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json', 'X-Provisioner-Key': KEY },
+    body: body ? JSON.stringify(body) : undefined,
+  });
+  const text = await res.text();
+  let json;
+  try { json = JSON.parse(text); } catch { json = text; }
+  return { status: res.status, body: json };
+}
+
+async function iptablesRules(chain) {
+  try {
+    const { stdout } = await execFileAsync('docker', [
+      'run', '--rm', '--network', 'host', '--cap-add=NET_ADMIN', '--cap-add=NET_RAW', 'alpine',
+      'sh', '-c', `apk add -q iptables >/dev/null 2>&1; iptables -S ${chain} 2>&1`,
+    ]);
+    return stdout;
+  } catch (e) { return e.stdout || e.message; }
+}
+
+let passed = 0, failed = 0;
+async function test(name, fn) {
+  try {
+    await fn();
+    console.log(`  ok — ${name}`);
+    passed++;
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error(`  FAIL — ${name}\n    ${e.message}`);
+    failed++;
+  }
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  console.log('Provisioner integration tests\n');
+
+  // 1. Health
+  await test('GET /health reports ok with db and lab_hosts reachable', async () => {
+    const { status, body } = await api('GET', '/health');
+    assert.equal(status, 200);
+    assert.equal(body.ok, true);
+    assert.equal(body.db, true);
+    assert.ok(body.lab_hosts.length >= 1);
+  });
+
+  // 2. Auth
+  await test('unauthenticated request is rejected', async () => {
+    const res = await fetch(`${BASE}/health`);
+    assert.equal(res.status, 401);
+  });
+
+  // 3. Provision -> running, unique network/container/token
+  let envA, envB;
+  await test('provision creates a running environment with a unique routing token', async () => {
+    const { status, body } = await api('POST', '/environments', { student_id: 'test-student-A' });
+    assert.equal(status, 201);
+    assert.equal(body.status, 'running');
+    assert.ok(body.routing_token && body.routing_token.length >= 32);
+    envA = body;
+  });
+
+  await test('a second student gets a distinct environment/network/token', async () => {
+    const { status, body } = await api('POST', '/environments', { student_id: 'test-student-B' });
+    assert.equal(status, 201);
+    assert.notEqual(body.environment_id, envA.environment_id);
+    assert.notEqual(body.routing_token, envA.routing_token);
+    envB = body;
+  });
+
+  await test('duplicate provision for the same student is rejected (409)', async () => {
+    const { status } = await api('POST', '/environments', { student_id: 'test-student-A' });
+    assert.equal(status, 409);
+  });
+
+  await test('environments have distinct internal IPs on distinct subnets', async () => {
+    const a = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}`)).body;
+    const b = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envB.environment_id}`)).body;
+    assert.notEqual(a.internal_ip, b.internal_ip);
+    assert.notEqual(a.network_subnet, b.network_subnet);
+  });
+
+  // 4. Egress firewall ordering — the exact regression the original -I bug would have caused.
+  await test('firewall chain permits the (RFC1918) proxy address before the RFC1918 blanket drop', async () => {
+    const a = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}`)).body;
+    const shortId = envA.environment_id.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+    const rules = await iptablesRules(`ROOTNODE-ENV-${shortId}`);
+    const lines = rules.trim().split('\n').filter((l) => l.startsWith('-A'));
+    const acceptIdx = lines.findIndex((l) => l.includes('ACCEPT') && l.includes('3128'));
+    const dropIdx = lines.findIndex((l) => l.includes('DROP') && l.includes('172.16.0.0/12'));
+    assert.ok(acceptIdx >= 0 && dropIdx >= 0, 'expected both an ACCEPT-to-proxy and a DROP-172.16 rule');
+    assert.ok(acceptIdx < dropIdx, 'ACCEPT must come before DROP — this is the bug the redesign fixed');
+  });
+
+  // 5. Isolation — the core security property.
+  await test('student A cannot reach student B (student-to-student isolation)', async () => {
+    const a = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}`)).body;
+    const b = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envB.environment_id}`)).body;
+    const shortA = envA.environment_id.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+    try {
+      await execFileAsync('docker', ['exec', `rootnode-lab-${shortA}`, 'node', '-e',
+        `const h=require('http');const r=h.get({host:'${b.internal_ip}',port:80,path:'/api/health',timeout:2000},()=>process.exit(1));r.on('error',()=>process.exit(0));r.on('timeout',()=>{r.destroy();process.exit(0)});`,
+      ]);
+    } catch (e) {
+      // execFile throws on non-zero exit; our script exits 0 when correctly blocked.
+      if (e.code !== 0) throw new Error(`expected blocked (exit 0), got exit ${e.code}`);
+    }
+  });
+
+  await test('student A cannot reach an arbitrary RFC1918 address (simulated trusted infra)', async () => {
+    const shortA = envA.environment_id.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+    try {
+      await execFileAsync('docker', ['exec', `rootnode-lab-${shortA}`, 'node', '-e',
+        `const h=require('http');const r=h.get({host:'10.1.2.3',port:80,path:'/',timeout:2000},()=>process.exit(1));r.on('error',()=>process.exit(0));r.on('timeout',()=>{r.destroy();process.exit(0)});`,
+      ]);
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e.code !== 0) throw new Error(`expected blocked (exit 0), got exit ${e.code}`);
+    }
+  });
+
+  // 6. Reset — same identity, fresh container.
+  await test('reset preserves environment_id/routing_token but recreates the container', async () => {
+    const before = (await api('GET', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}`)).body;
+    const { status, body } = await api('POST', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}/reset`);
+    assert.equal(status, 200);
+    assert.equal(body.environment_id, envA.environment_id);
+    assert.notEqual(body.container_id, before.container_id);
+  });
+
+  // 7. Destroy — deterministic cleanup.
+  await test('destroy removes container, network, and firewall chain', async () => {
+    const shortB = envB.environment_id.replace(/-/g, '').slice(0, 12);
+    const { status, body } = await api('DELETE', `/environments/${envB.environment_id}`);
+    assert.equal(status, 200);
+    assert.equal(body.status, 'destroyed');
+    const rules = await iptablesRules(`ROOTNODE-ENV-${shortB}`);
+    assert.ok(/No chain|does not exist/i.test(rules), 'firewall chain should be gone after destroy');
+  });
+
+  // 8. Events — full audit trail, no secrets.
+  await test('environment_events records the lifecycle and never contains the routing token', async () => {
+    const { body: events } = await api('GET', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}/events`);
+    const types = events.map((e) => e.event_type);
+    for (const expected of ['provision_requested', 'host_selected', 'network_created', 'firewall_configured', 'container_created', 'ready']) {
+      assert.ok(types.includes(expected), `missing event: ${expected}`);
+    }
+    const serialized = JSON.stringify(events);
+    assert.ok(!serialized.includes(envA.routing_token) || envA.routing_token === undefined, 'routing token must never appear in event details');
+  });
+
+  // Cleanup
+  await api('DELETE', `/environments/${envA.environment_id}`);
+
+  console.log(`\n${passed} passed, ${failed} failed`);
+  process.exit(failed ? 1 : 0);
+}
+
+main().catch((e) => { console.error('Test run crashed:', e); process.exit(1); });
+
+// ── Not exercised by this script — see the Phase 1 final report for why ──────────────────
+// - Idle reaper timing (validated manually with a backdated last_active_at + real 60s wait;
+//   automating that here would just make the suite slow for no extra confidence).
+// - Suspend/resume against the real Lab image / k3s specifically (experimental, decision #3
+//   — validated manually; correctness never depends on this).
+// - Remote TCP+TLS lab_host endpoint (validated manually against a Docker-in-Docker sidecar;
+//   not wired into this script to avoid a heavy, flaky dependency in routine test runs).
+// - Reconciliation-on-restart (validated manually by killing a container out-of-band and
+//   restarting the Provisioner; requires an out-of-band kill + process restart that doesn't
+//   fit a single-process test script cleanly).
+// - Anything requiring the real Lab Host VM / Proxmox topology — see
+//   docs/PHASE1_PLATFORM_FOUNDATION.md §8 tests 5, 7, 9, 12 for what's explicitly documented
+//   as untestable on a single dev machine rather than faked.

scenarios/SCHEMA.md

@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ Scenarios are defined as JSON objects. A scenario can be either a hands-on conso
   "id": "unique-kebab-case-id",        // string — unique scenario identifier
   "title": "Human-readable Title",      // string — shown in sidebar list
   "category": "Workloads",             // string — groups scenarios in sidebar accordion
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace", // "shared_namespace" | "ephemeral_cluster" — see below
   "difficulty": "Easy",                // "Easy" | "Medium" | "Hard"
   "type": "task",                      // "task" | "mcq"
   "weight": 7,                         // number — points value (used for final grade scoring)
@@ -66,6 +67,18 @@ Scenarios are defined as JSON objects. A scenario can be either a hands-on conso
 
 ---
 
+### `isolation_type` — informational, not a security boundary
+
+Earlier draft of this schema used `isolation_type` (`shared_namespace` | `ephemeral_cluster`)
+to decide which scenarios could safely run under shared-cluster RBAC. That namespace-isolation
+approach was superseded before it shipped — see `docs/LAB_ARCHITECTURE.md`. Every student now
+gets a fully separate disposable environment with its own nested cluster, so no scenario
+content is unsafe for any other student's environment; the field no longer gates anything.
+It's kept on scenario records as descriptive metadata only (which scenarios exercise
+cluster-scoped/node-level operations), not read by any authorization logic.
+
+---
+
 ### Hints Schema
 Each hint is rendered as a collapsible card inside the Hints tab of the UI:
 ```jsonc
@@ -149,6 +162,7 @@ Renders a questionnaire block. No terminal is shown. The user answers by selecti
   "id": "scale-deployment",
   "title": "Scale a Deployment",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,
@@ -187,6 +201,7 @@ Renders a questionnaire block. No terminal is shown. The user answers by selecti
   "id": "service-types-mcq",
   "title": "Kubernetes Service Types",
   "category": "Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/annotate-resource-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "annotate-resource-basics",
   "title": "Annotating Kubernetes Resources",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/broken-deployment.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "broken-deployment",
   "title": "Debug a Failing Deployment",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 8,

scenarios/data/cks-apparmor-profile.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-apparmor-profile",
   "title": "AppArmor Profiles",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-audit-policy.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-audit-policy",
   "title": "Write a Kubernetes Audit Policy",
   "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/cks-automount-token.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-automount-token",
   "title": "Disable ServiceAccount Token",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/cks-drop-capabilities.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-drop-capabilities",
   "title": "Drop Linux Capabilities",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-egress-namespace.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-egress-namespace",
   "title": "Restrict Egress to Namespace",
   "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 6,

scenarios/data/cks-image-pull-secret.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-image-pull-secret",
   "title": "Private Registry Image Pull Secret",
   "category": "Supply Chain Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/cks-immutable-secret.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-immutable-secret",
   "title": "Immutable Secrets",
   "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-api-server.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-api-server",
   "title": "API Server Authentication",
   "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-audit-policy.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-audit-policy",
   "title": "Kubernetes Audit Logging Levels",
   "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-image-footprint.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-image-footprint",
   "title": "Minimizing Image Footprint",
   "category": "Supply Chain Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-kubelet-auth.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-kubelet-auth",
   "title": "Securing the Kubelet",
   "category": "Cluster Setup",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-psp-replacement.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-psp-replacement",
   "title": "Pod Security Evolution",
   "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-runtime-security.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-runtime-security",
   "title": "Runtime Security Tools",
   "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/cks-mcq-sandboxing.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-mcq-sandboxing",
   "title": "Container Runtime Sandboxing",
   "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/cks-network-policy-metadata.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-network-policy-metadata",
   "title": "Block Cloud Metadata",
   "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 6,

scenarios/data/cks-network-policy.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-network-policy",
   "title": "Default Deny Network Policy",
   "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-non-root-enforce.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-non-root-enforce",
   "title": "Enforce Non-Root Container",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-pod-security-context.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-pod-security-context",
   "title": "Pod Security Context",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-psa-namespace.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-psa-namespace",
   "title": "Pod Security Admission",
   "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/cks-rbac-clusterrole.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-rbac-clusterrole",
   "title": "Cluster-Level RBAC",
   "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-rbac-least-privilege.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-rbac-least-privilege",
   "title": "RBAC Least Privilege",
   "category": "Cluster Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/cks-readonly-filesystem.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-readonly-filesystem",
   "title": "Read-Only Root Filesystem",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/cks-runtime-class.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-runtime-class",
   "title": "RuntimeClass for Sandboxed Workloads",
   "category": "System Hardening",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/cks-seccomp-profile.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-seccomp-profile",
   "title": "Seccomp Profiles",
   "category": "Workload Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 6,

scenarios/data/cks-tls-ingress.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cks-tls-ingress",
   "title": "Secure Ingress with TLS",
   "category": "Network Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/cluster-upgrade-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cluster-upgrade-mcq",
   "title": "Cluster Upgrade Order",
   "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/configmap-volume.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "configmap-volume",
   "title": "Mount ConfigMap as Volume",
   "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/container-logging-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "container-logging-mcq",
   "title": "Container Logging and Monitoring",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/crashloop-fix.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "crashloop-fix",
   "title": "Fix a CrashLoopBackOff Pod",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/cronjob-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "cronjob-task",
   "title": "Create a CronJob",
   "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/daemonset-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "daemonset-mcq",
   "title": "Understanding DaemonSets",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/delete-by-label-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "delete-by-label-basics",
   "title": "Bulk Deletion by Label",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/deploy-nginx.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "deploy-nginx",
   "title": "Deploy and Expose Nginx",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/deployment-rollback.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "deployment-rollback",
   "title": "Rolling Back a Deployment",
   "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/deployment-strategy-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "deployment-strategy-mcq",
   "title": "Deployment Update Strategies",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/dns-resolution-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "dns-resolution-mcq",
   "title": "Kubernetes DNS Resolution",
   "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/dry-run-manifest-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "dry-run-manifest-basics",
   "title": "Generating YAML Manifests",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/edit-deployment-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "edit-deployment-basics",
   "title": "Updating Deployments",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/emptydir-pod.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "emptydir-pod",
   "title": "Shared emptyDir Volume Between Containers",
   "category": "Storage",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/endpoint-fix-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "endpoint-fix-task",
   "title": "Fix a Broken Service Selector",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/env-vars-configmap.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "env-vars-configmap",
   "title": "Environment Variables from ConfigMap",
   "category": "Configuration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/etcd-backup-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "etcd-backup-mcq",
   "title": "etcd Backup and Restore",
   "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/exec-command-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "exec-command-basics",
   "title": "Execute Commands in Pods",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/expose-service-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "expose-service-basics",
   "title": "Exposing an Application",
   "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/extract-logs-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "extract-logs-basics",
   "title": "Extract Container Logs",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/field-selector-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "field-selector-basics",
   "title": "Filtering Resources with Field Selectors",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/ingress-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "ingress-task",
   "title": "Create an Ingress Resource",
   "category": "Services & Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,

scenarios/data/init-container-task-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "init-container-task-basics",
   "title": "Pod with Init Container",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/init-containers-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "init-containers-mcq",
   "title": "Init Containers Behaviour",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/job-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "job-task",
   "title": "Create a One-Shot Job",
   "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/jobs-cronjobs-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "jobs-cronjobs-mcq",
   "title": "Jobs vs CronJobs",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/jsonpath-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "jsonpath-basics",
   "title": "JSONPath Data Extraction",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/kubectl-cp-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-cp-basics",
   "title": "Copy Files to Containers",
   "category": "Troubleshooting",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/kubectl-diff-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-diff-basics",
   "title": "Previewing Changes with kubectl diff",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/kubectl-essentials-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-essentials-mcq",
   "title": "Essential kubectl Commands",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/kubectl-explain-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-explain-basics",
   "title": "Exploring the API with kubectl explain",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/kubectl-output-format-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-output-format-mcq",
   "title": "kubectl Output Formats",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 2,

scenarios/data/kubectl-patch-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "kubectl-patch-basics",
   "title": "Patching Resources with kubectl patch",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/labels-selectors-mcq.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "labels-selectors-mcq",
   "title": "Labels and Selectors",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "mcq",
   "weight": 3,

scenarios/data/limitrange-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "limitrange-task",
   "title": "LimitRange for Default Container Limits",
   "category": "Workloads & Scheduling",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 6,

scenarios/data/liveness-probe-task.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "liveness-probe-task",
   "title": "Configure a Liveness Probe",
   "category": "Workloads",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 6,

scenarios/data/multi-container-pod-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "multi-container-pod-basics",
   "title": "Create a Multi-Container Pod",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/namespaces-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "namespaces-basics",
   "title": "Working with Namespaces",
   "category": "Core Concepts",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/network-policy.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "network-policy",
   "title": "Isolate Traffic with NetworkPolicy",
   "category": "Networking",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 9,

scenarios/data/networkpolicy-egress.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "networkpolicy-egress",
   "title": "Egress NetworkPolicy",
   "category": "Security",
+  "isolation_type": "shared_namespace",
   "difficulty": "Hard",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 8,

scenarios/data/node-cordon-basics.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "node-cordon-basics",
   "title": "Cordoning and Uncordoning a Node",
   "category": "Cluster Management",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 4,

scenarios/data/node-label-selector.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "node-label-selector",
   "title": "Node Labels and nodeSelector",
   "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Easy",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 5,

scenarios/data/node-taint-toleration.json

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
   "id": "node-taint-toleration",
   "title": "Taints and Tolerations",
   "category": "Cluster Administration",
+  "isolation_type": "ephemeral_cluster",
   "difficulty": "Medium",
   "type": "task",
   "weight": 7,