nova

Operating a federation

Deployment Recipes

Annotated deployment recipes for common operator scenarios. Each recipe is operator-side: it builds on Nova's existing primitives rather than changing the protocol. The Nova binaries do not ship the orchestration these recipes describe.

CDN and routing

  • CLOUDFLARE.md — fronting the Read Gateway with Cloudflare to collapse egress costs
  • NGINX_REFERENCE.md — annotated reference site configuration

Operations

  • AUTOMATED_ONBOARDING.md — self-serve donor enrollment with sub-CA, friction layer, and quarantine subnet
  • KEY_ESCROW.md — Shamir-split backup escrow for NOVA_MASTER_KEY versions
  • COLD_STANDBY.md — manual-failover hot-spare host for read-availability after primary failure

Phase 1 will add a complete docker-compose.yml and step-by-step deployment walkthrough.

Source: docs/recipes/README.md