Ian Letourneau
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Co-authored-by: Ian Letourneau <letourneau.ian@gmail.com> Reviewed-on: https://git.nationtech.io/NationTech/harmony/pulls/93
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# Harmony : Open-source infrastructure orchestration that treats your platform like first-class code
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_By [NationTech](https://nationtech.io)_
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[](https://git.nationtech.io/nationtech/harmony)
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[](LICENSE)
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### Unify
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- **Project Scaffolding**
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- **Infrastructure Provisioning**
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- **Application Deployment**
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- **Day-2 operations**
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All in **one strongly-typed Rust codebase**.
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### Deploy anywhere
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From a **developer laptop** to a **global production cluster**, a single **source of truth** drives the **full software lifecycle.**
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---
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## 1 · The Harmony Philosophy
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Infrastructure is essential, but it shouldn’t be your core business. Harmony is built on three guiding principles that make modern platforms reliable, repeatable, and easy to reason about.
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| Principle | What it means for you |
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| -------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
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| **Infrastructure as Resilient Code** | Replace sprawling YAML and bash scripts with type-safe Rust. Test, refactor, and version your platform just like application code. |
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| **Prove It Works — Before You Deploy** | Harmony uses the compiler to verify that your application’s needs match the target environment’s capabilities at **compile-time**, eliminating an entire class of runtime outages. |
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| **One Unified Model** | Software and infrastructure are a single system. Harmony models them together, enabling deep automation—from bare-metal servers to Kubernetes workloads—with zero context switching. |
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These principles surface as simple, ergonomic Rust APIs that let teams focus on their product while trusting the platform underneath.
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---
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## 2 · Quick Start
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The snippet below spins up a complete **production-grade LAMP stack** with monitoring. Swap it for your own scores to deploy anything from microservices to machine-learning pipelines.
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```rust
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use harmony::{
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data::Version,
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inventory::Inventory,
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maestro::Maestro,
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modules::{
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lamp::{LAMPConfig, LAMPScore},
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monitoring::monitoring_alerting::MonitoringAlertingStackScore,
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},
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topology::{K8sAnywhereTopology, Url},
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};
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#[tokio::main]
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async fn main() {
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// 1. Describe what you want
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let lamp_stack = LAMPScore {
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name: "harmony-lamp-demo".into(),
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domain: Url::Url(url::Url::parse("https://lampdemo.example.com").unwrap()),
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php_version: Version::from("8.3.0").unwrap(),
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config: LAMPConfig {
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project_root: "./php".into(),
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database_size: "4Gi".into(),
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..Default::default()
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},
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};
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// 2. Enhance with extra scores (monitoring, CI/CD, …)
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let mut monitoring = MonitoringAlertingStackScore::new();
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monitoring.namespace = Some(lamp_stack.config.namespace.clone());
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// 3. Run your scores on the desired topology & inventory
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harmony_cli::run(
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Inventory::autoload(), // auto-detect hardware / kube-config
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K8sAnywhereTopology::from_env(), // local k3d, CI, staging, prod…
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vec![
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Box::new(lamp_stack),
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Box::new(monitoring)
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],
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None
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).await.unwrap();
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}
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```
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Run it:
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```bash
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cargo run
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```
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Harmony analyses the code, shows an execution plan in a TUI, and applies it once you confirm. Same code, same binary—every environment.
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---
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## 3 · Core Concepts
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| Term | One-liner |
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| ---------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| **Score<T>** | Declarative description of the desired state (e.g., `LAMPScore`). |
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| **Interpret<T>** | Imperative logic that realises a `Score` on a specific environment. |
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| **Topology** | An environment (local k3d, AWS, bare-metal) exposing verified _Capabilities_ (Kubernetes, DNS, …). |
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| **Maestro** | Orchestrator that compiles Scores + Topology, ensuring all capabilities line up **at compile-time**. |
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| **Inventory** | Optional catalogue of physical assets for bare-metal and edge deployments. |
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A visual overview is in the diagram below.
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[Harmony Core Architecture](docs/diagrams/Harmony_Core_Architecture.drawio.svg)
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---
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## 4 · Install
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Prerequisites:
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- Rust
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- Docker (if you deploy locally)
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- `kubectl` / `helm` for Kubernetes-based topologies
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```bash
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git clone https://git.nationtech.io/nationtech/harmony
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cd harmony
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cargo build --release # builds the CLI, TUI and libraries
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```
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---
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## 5 · Learning More
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- **Architectural Decision Records** – dive into the rationale
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- [ADR-001 · Why Rust](adr/001-rust.md)
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- [ADR-003 · Infrastructure Abstractions](adr/003-infrastructure-abstractions.md)
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- [ADR-006 · Secret Management](adr/006-secret-management.md)
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- [ADR-011 · Multi-Tenant Cluster](adr/011-multi-tenant-cluster.md)
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- **Extending Harmony** – write new Scores / Interprets, add hardware like OPNsense firewalls, or embed Harmony in your own tooling (`/docs`).
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- **Community** – discussions and roadmap live in [GitLab issues](https://git.nationtech.io/nationtech/harmony/-/issues). PRs, ideas, and feedback are welcome!
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## 6 · License
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Harmony is released under the **GNU AGPL v3**.
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> We choose a strong copyleft license to ensure the project—and every improvement to it—remains open and benefits the entire community. Fork it, enhance it, even out-innovate us; just keep it open.
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See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for the full text.
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---
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_Made with ❤️ & 🦀 by the NationTech and the Harmony community_
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