Vetting

Post-repair hardware validation pipeline for Proxmox cluster hosts. Register a host, click Start Vetting, and the orchestrator will PXE-boot it into a custom Linux live image and run it through a consistent battery of tests (CPU stress, RAM stress, SMART, disk I/O, network throughput, GPU, PSU telemetry). Pass → auto-shutdown + HTML report. Fail → pipeline halts, SSH drops in, notification fires.

Built for solo-operator home labs: one Go binary, SQLite + flat files, HTMX + SSE UI, bundled dnsmasq, optional ntfy / Discord / SMTP notifications.

Documentation

• docs/operations.md — install + first run + troubleshooting
• docs/architecture.md — packages, state machine, protocol
• docs/test-suite.md — what each stage measures

Quick start (local, against QEMU)

make all
./bin/vetting --config deploy/vetting.example.yaml
# → http://localhost:8080

The UI has no built-in auth — bind to loopback or LAN only, or front the service with a reverse proxy (Caddy/nginx basic-auth) if you want a password. The agent↔orchestrator channel keeps its own bearer-token auth and is unaffected.

For a full end-to-end QEMU walk-through (bridge setup, host registration, PXE boot), see docs/operations.md § First vetting run.

Production install (Proxmox LXC)

On a fresh Debian/Ubuntu LXC, as root:

curl -fsSL https://gitea.thewrightserver.net/josh/Vetting/raw/branch/main/deploy/proxmox-install.sh | bash

That installs Go (if missing), clones the repo to /opt/vetting-src, builds vetting-linux-amd64, and hands off to deploy/install.sh — which lays down the binary, systemd unit, example config, and vetting service user. Then:

# Edit /etc/vetting/vetting.yaml (server.bind + server.public_url)
sudo systemctl enable --now vetting
journalctl -fu vetting

Prefer to build yourself? The manual path:

make orchestrator-linux
scp -r bin deploy lxc:/opt/vetting/
ssh lxc "cd /opt/vetting && sudo ./deploy/install.sh"
ssh lxc "sudo systemctl enable --now vetting"

See docs/operations.md § Install for the full walkthrough.

Repository layout

cmd/                  orchestrator + agent entrypoints
internal/             core packages (see docs/architecture.md for the map)
agent/                in-image agent logic (claim loop, stage dispatch, probes)
live-image/           mkosi config for the PXE-bootable Debian live image
deploy/               systemd unit + install.sh + example config
docs/                 operator + developer docs
test/e2e/             build-tag-gated QEMU + PXE full-stack test
tools/                small CLI helpers

Development

• make test — Go unit + smoke tests (cross-platform)
• make vet — go vet on the whole module
• make live-image — Linux-only; run under WSL from Windows
• make e2e — requires Linux root + live image + running orchestrator
• make run — build + launch the orchestrator with the example config

Windows hosts: everything except live-image and e2e works natively. The live image build calls mkosi which needs a real Linux userspace, so use WSL for those targets.

Status

All six phases in the original plan are implemented. The E2E QEMU harness is wired in test/e2e/qemu_test.go but requires a running orchestrator + registered host + queued run as preconditions — it's a developer-facing integration harness, not a unit test.