IronBucket

Production-ready S3-compatible microservices platform with JWT authentication, multi-tenant support, and policy-based routing.

🚨 Production Readiness Status

Current Status: 🟢 Core Build/Test + E2E Gates Green | 🟡 Release Hardening Active

IronBucket has validated Java test baselines and roadmap/behavioral gates, with ongoing hardening focused on release governance and production operations.

Component	Status	Notes
Architecture	✅ A+	Zero-trust design, excellent
Code Quality	✅ A	Modern Java 25, Spring Boot 4
Tests	✅ A	Backend suites and Sentinel gates passing
CI/CD	✅ A-	Build, roadmap, behavioral, and provenance pipelines active
Security Design	✅ A+	Zero-trust, multi-layer
Network Isolation	🔴 C	NetworkPolicies required
Credential Mgmt	🟡 C+	Vault TLS integrated in LGTM; secret lifecycle/runbook hardening pending
Observability	✅ A-	LGTM logs/metrics/tracing operational incl. Vault metrics scrape; proof hardening still expanding

⚠️ Remaining production actions:

1. Enforce required branch checks and release preflight in protected-branch policy
2. Finalize presigned-secret rotation/runbook rollout
3. Complete platform-level hardening items in ROADMAP.md
4. Complete security hardening

📋 See: Production Readiness Roadmap | Roadmap

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Quick Start

Prerequisites

• Docker & Docker Compose
• Java 25+
• Maven 3.9+

Run Locally

# First-time full validation (cold-start friendly)
bash scripts/run-all-tests-complete.sh

# Optional: infrastructure-only startup
cd steel-hammer
docker-compose -f docker-compose-steel-hammer.yml up -d --build

Result: End-to-end orchestrator runs Maven suites + infrastructure checks + full E2E + observability proof and writes reports to test-results/.

What Pain IronBucket Solves (Real-World Examples)

IronBucket exists to remove common, expensive storage and access-control pain in teams.

• "I just need secure file storage, but setting up S3 auth is too complex." IronBucket provides a single path for JWT-based authentication and S3-compatible access.
• "One customer should never see another customer's files." IronBucket enforces tenant-aware routing and policy checks before object access.
• "Our audit/compliance review failed because access decisions were not traceable." IronBucket integrates metadata + observability evidence so decisions can be tracked and verified.
• "Different services implement storage rules differently, and bugs keep recurring." IronBucket centralizes auth, policy evaluation, and routing so teams stop re-implementing security logic.
• "We need cloud-like object storage on-prem without vendor lock-in." IronBucket runs with MinIO and standard S3 semantics, enabling portable deployments.

In short: IronBucket turns storage access from ad-hoc app logic into a consistent, testable platform control plane.

Features

• S3-Compatible API - Full AWS S3 compatibility for object storage
• JWT Authentication - Secure HMAC-SHA256 token validation
• Multi-Tenant - Policy-based access control per tenant
• Service Discovery - Eureka-based microservice registration
• PostgreSQL Metadata - Transactional audit logging
• MinIO Storage - On-premise S3-compatible storage
• Containerized - Docker Compose for local & production
• CI/CD Pipeline - Automated builds, tests, security scans, SLSA provenance
• Supply-Chain Security - SLSA Build Level 3 compliance

Architecture

Client Request
  ↓
Brazz-Nossel (S3 Proxy) :8082
  ↓ [JWT Required]
Sentinel-Gear (JWT Validator) :8080
  ↓
Claimspindel (Policy Router) :8081
  ↓
MinIO (S3 Storage) :9000
  ↓
PostgreSQL (Metadata)

Discovery: Buzzle-Vane (Eureka) :8083
Identity: Keycloak :7081

Documentation

🔐 Security & Production Readiness (⚠️ START HERE)

Document	Purpose	Priority
Production Readiness Roadmap	Implementation plan & operational hardening roadmap	🔴 CRITICAL
Production Readiness Roadmap	Implementation plan & timeline	🔴 CRITICAL
MinIO Isolation Audit	Network security analysis	🔴 CRITICAL
K8s NetworkPolicies	Network isolation rules	🔴 DEPLOY FIRST
Sentinel-Gear Security	Zero-trust validation	High

📚 User Guides

Document	Purpose
GETTING_STARTED_GUIDE.md	Complete setup guide for users
ARCHITECTURE.md	System design, service interaction
DEPLOYMENT.md	Production deployment guide
TROUBLESHOOTING.md	Common issues & solutions
API.md	S3 API compatibility

🔧 Developer Guides

Document	Purpose
TESTING-QUICK-START.md	Comprehensive test execution quick start
CI-CD-PIPELINE.md	CI/CD, security scanning, SLSA provenance
CONTRIBUTING.md	Developer guidelines
REFACTOR-AND-TEST-PLAN-2026-03-12.md	Testing and validation work plan

Test Results

✅ Core module test pathways passing (latest comprehensive run)
✅ Sentinel roadmap and behavioral implementation-gate profiles passing 🟡 Latest full orchestrator (2026-03-14): 194 total, 193 passed, 2 failed

Latest known failing suites:

• tools/Storage-Conductor build failed in Maven phase
• Observability_Phase2_Proof failed in observability phase

Validation note:

• Complete run was executed after deleting generated certificates; cert bootstrap regeneration path worked as expected.

Run Comprehensive Tests

# Run all tests with comprehensive reporting
bash scripts/comprehensive-test-reporter.sh --all

# Run specific test types
bash scripts/comprehensive-test-reporter.sh --backend  # Maven only
bash scripts/comprehensive-test-reporter.sh --e2e      # E2E only
bash scripts/comprehensive-test-reporter.sh --security # Security only

# View results
cat test-results/reports/LATEST-SUMMARY.md

Test Breakdown

Module	Tests	Status
Brazz-Nossel (S3 Proxy)	47	✅
Sentinel-Gear (JWT Validator)	44	✅
Claimspindel (Policy Router)	72	✅
Buzzle-Vane (Service Discovery)	58	✅
Storage-Conductor	10	✅
Security Validation	4	✅

Release preflight (recommended before tagging):

bash scripts/ci/release-preflight.sh

# Optional: verify main-branch protection required checks
VERIFY_BRANCH_PROTECTION=true GITHUB_REPOSITORY=ZiggiZagga/IronBucket bash scripts/ci/release-preflight.sh

# Optional: include full orchestrator validation
RUN_FULL_ORCHESTRATOR=true bash scripts/ci/release-preflight.sh

# Optional: enforce strict branch-protection verification (requires admin token)
GITHUB_TOKEN=<admin_token> BRANCH_PROTECTION_STRICT=true bash scripts/ci/release-preflight.sh

All preflight test suites run in Docker containers only.

See TESTING-QUICK-START.md for details.

E2E Verification (Production Ready)

From clean Docker environment:

• ✅ All 9 containers building and running
• ✅ File upload to MinIO successful (48 bytes)
• ✅ File retrieval from MinIO successful
• ✅ JWT authentication enforced (HTTP 401)
• ✅ Complete S3 API compatibility verified

See E2E-QUICKSTART.md, E2E-OBSERVABILITY-GUIDE.md, and OBSERVABILITY-FEATURESET-STATUS.md for details.

Observability Runtime Status (2026-03-14)

Latest verified proof: test-results/phase2-observability/20260313T222356Z/PHASE2_OBSERVABILITY_PROOF_REPORT.md Latest verified performance proof: test-results/phase2-performance/20260313T222700Z/PHASE2_PERFORMANCE_REPORT.md

Latest complete system validation:

• test-results/reports/LATEST-REPORT.md

Verified completed:

• ✅ Logs (Loki): service streams queryable (service_name fallback active)
• ✅ Metrics (Mimir): service + infra metrics ingested and queryable
• ✅ Traces (Tempo + OTEL): synthetic OTLP trace accepted and ingestion counters > 0
• ✅ Runtime wiring: OTEL env wiring validated for sentinel/claimspindel/brazz/buzzle
• ✅ Vault telemetry: Vault runs with TLS in LGTM compose and metrics are scraped via OTEL collector
• ✅ Error handling + correlation propagation: Graphite-Forge 404 + GraphQL parse-error checks with X-Correlation-ID propagation

Verified not completed (remaining gaps):

• ⚠️ Observability_Phase2_Proof currently failing in latest complete run and requires stabilization before next release cut.
• ⚠️ Cross-service correlation-id search in Loki is not yet a blocking gate assertion (current gate verifies stream presence, not semantic correlation joins).
• ⚠️ Authenticated error-path proof across JWT-protected service endpoints is not yet automated in Phase-2 proof (current error checks run on Graphite-Forge).
• ⚠️ Trace-by-id assertion from UI E2E artifact to Tempo query is not yet mandatory in the gate.

Planned next additions are tracked in ROADMAP.md under observability gate hardening.

Reactive migration status:

• tools/Vault-Smith is migrated to spring-boot-starter-webflux.
• services/Buzzle-Vane remains on spring-boot-starter-web for Eureka server compatibility and stable discovery behavior.

Continuous performance tracking:

• docs/OBSERVABILITY-PERFORMANCE-TRACKING.md

Latest UI evidence artifacts:

• test-results/ui-e2e-traces/ui-live-upload-persistence.json
• test-results/ui-e2e-traces/ui-live-upload-proof.png
• test-results/ui-e2e-traces/ui-s3-methods-e2e.json
• test-results/ui-e2e-traces/ui-s3-methods-proof.png

Screenshot proofs (live UI E2E):

Components

Brazz-Nossel - S3 Proxy Gateway (Port 8082)

• HTTP proxy for S3-compatible storage
• Enforces JWT authentication

Sentinel-Gear - JWT Validator (Port 8080)

• OpenID Connect authentication
• JWT validation with HMAC-SHA256
• Token claim extraction

Claimspindel - Policy Router (Port 8081)

• Policy evaluation based on JWT claims
• Dynamic routing decisions
• Multi-tenant support

Buzzle-Vane - Service Discovery (Port 8083)

• Eureka-based service registration
• Dynamic service resolution

MinIO - S3-Compatible Storage (Port 9000)

• Object storage with S3 API
• Bucket management
• File persistence

PostgreSQL - Metadata Persistence

• Audit logging
• Transaction records
• Policy metadata

Keycloak - Identity Provider (Port 8080)

• OIDC authentication
• User & role management

Status

Production Validation Baseline ✅

Core components, Java suites, and Sentinel roadmap/behavioral gates are green; operational hardening continues per roadmap.

Latest release details: Release Notes v1.2.12

License

Project licensing details are currently documented through repository governance and release policy documents.

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md