id: BB-RESEARCH-4D80C31E
type: research
title: Infrastructure platform choices
Infrastructure platform choices
Conclusions
OpenTofu provides the required open-source Terraform-compatible workflow.
Hetzner Cloud provides suitable public connectivity, retained addresses, and an OpenTofu provider.
WireGuard carries selected web and SSH ingress between the relay and klops while preserving source addresses through DNAT.
nftables provides stateful, default-deny IPv4 and IPv6 filtering and NAT.
Rootless Podman Quadlets provide systemd-managed service lifecycle on klops.
SSH remains the provisioning boundary for the existing physical klops host, avoiding another configuration-management stack.
Alternatives, historical service inventories, provider sizing, and prices are non-binding.
Current behavior is defined by the linked specifications and implementation.
Provenance
Migrated from ADR-000 through ADR-005.
Claims were reconciled with current OpenTofu, cloud-init, klops modules, Quadlets, and deployment scripts.
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id: BB-RESEARCH-4D80C31E
type: research
title: Infrastructure platform choices
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# Infrastructure platform choices
## Conclusions
- OpenTofu provides the required open-source Terraform-compatible workflow.
- Hetzner Cloud provides suitable public connectivity, retained addresses, and an OpenTofu provider.
- WireGuard carries selected web and SSH ingress between the relay and klops while preserving source addresses through DNAT.
- nftables provides stateful, default-deny IPv4 and IPv6 filtering and NAT.
- Rootless Podman Quadlets provide systemd-managed service lifecycle on klops.
- SSH remains the provisioning boundary for the existing physical klops host, avoiding another configuration-management stack.
Alternatives, historical service inventories, provider sizing, and prices are non-binding.
Current behavior is defined by the linked specifications and implementation.
## Provenance
Migrated from ADR-000 through ADR-005.
Claims were reconciled with current OpenTofu, cloud-init, klops modules, Quadlets, and deployment scripts.