Establish the design foundation for the heleosv2 multi-tenant hosting platform before any implementation code: - Monorepo skeleton: docs/, platform-infra/, site-templates/, deployments/, control-panel/ with orientation READMEs. - docs/: roadmap index, architecture + threat model, naming conventions, site profiles, provisioning workflow, backup & DR runbook, repo/GitOps layout, and the approved architecture plan. - docs/adr/: 9 ADRs recording the rationale for single-host Compose, Traefik edge, nginx+fpm split, shared MariaDB, ZFS-per-customer, decoupled backup streams, Forgejo, CLI-first, and SFTP-only. - Secrets hygiene: .gitignore (only *.enc.* committed) and .gitattributes (LF for scripts/Dockerfiles/YAML run on the Linux host). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ADR 0004 — Shared MariaDB instance, per-site DB + user
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**Status:** Accepted
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## Context
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Two models: (a) a MariaDB container per customer — strong isolation, aligns with
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per-customer ZFS snapshots, but ~100–300 MB idle RAM each; or (b) one shared
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MariaDB instance with a separate database and least-privilege user per site —
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RAM-efficient via a shared buffer pool, but the live datadir is shared.
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## Decision
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Run **one shared MariaDB** instance. Each site gets its **own database and its
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own least-privilege user**. The instance's datadir lives on a dedicated platform
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ZFS dataset, not inside any customer dataset.
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## Consequences
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- ✅ Efficient memory use (shared buffer pool) — favours density on one host.
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- ✅ Per-site DB users mean a compromised site's credentials expose only that
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site's database.
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- ❌ The live datadir cannot be snapshotted per-customer atomically with their
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files — addressed by decoupling DB backups (see
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[ADR 0006](0006-decoupled-backup-streams.md)): per-database dumps via
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automysqlbackup give per-customer restore granularity.
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- ⚠️ The shared instance is a shared-fate component (a crash or bad query can
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affect all sites) and a noisy-neighbour surface — mitigate with tuning and,
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later, `mysqld_exporter` monitoring. Revisit per-customer DB if a tenant needs
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strong isolation or a different engine/version.
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