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# ADR-0006: IaC split — Ansible hosts, Terraform ground, Flux ground-only, fleet manifest for drones
## Status
Accepted (2026-07-08)
## Context
Three very different things need provisioning: (1) drone hosts, which are
air-gapped and never reachable by a controller in flight; (2) the ground
segment (warehouse, observability, offload), a normal k3s cluster; (3) the
simulation environment that mirrors the ground segment locally. Using one tool
for all three would force a GitOps controller or a Terraform apply loop onto the
drone — impossible for an autonomous, disconnected node
([ADR-0001](ADR-0001-no-swarm-orchestrator.md)).
## Decision
Split infrastructure ownership by lifecycle:
| Layer | Tool | Scope |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Host preparation | **Ansible** | Drone bench prep (keys, forced commands, WireGuard, Compose bundle) and the local k3d sim cluster |
| Ground workloads | **Terraform** | k3s/k3d resources: virtual fleet + observability (`sim-env`), warehouse + T1→T3 offload (`ground`) |
| Ground continuous delivery | **Flux (GitOps)** | Ground segment **only** — policy labels, dashboard bundles |
| Drone delivery | **Fleet release manifest** | A versioned, digest-pinned artifact list; no controller pulls to the drone |
Drones are delivered by the **fleet release manifest** (one version for the
whole fleet, atomic rollback), never by a controller reaching into the air.
## Consequences
- No GitOps agent or `terraform apply` ever targets a drone; the air side stays
controller-free.
- Terraform state is environment-local and kept out of Git
([ADR-0008](ADR-0008-runtime-data-paths.md)).
- The sim cluster is a faithful miniature: the same Terraform describes it and
the ground segment.
- Boundaries are documented in
[`../06-environments.md`](../06-environments.md#iac-boundaries); delivery in
[`../11-cicd-delivery.md`](../11-cicd-delivery.md).