Content — public-service cloud architecture series

The single canonical repository for the series. Every chapter lives here, and every new chapter is added here. The series is ongoing: the chapter list below grows, it is not a fixed set.

Chapters

Chapter	Source	Subject	Status
1	chapter-1/chapter-1.md	Cloud for public services: choices, control and practical fit	Released
2	chapter-2/chapter-2.md	How cloud environments support dependable public services	Released
3	chapter-3/chapter-3.md	OpenStack and the IaaS technical baseline	Working draft
4	chapter-4/chapter-4.md	Kubernetes cluster lifecycle on OpenStack with Cluster API	Release candidate
5	—	Complete platform capabilities and operation	Planned
6	—	Workload deployment, including Information Mediator	Planned

Further chapters follow. Numbering and the boundary between chapters are recorded with each chapter. Chapter 4's input and handoff are governed by chapter-4/SERIES_SCOPE.md. Chapter 3 was inserted, so historical references to the former Chapter 3 subject matter now refer to Chapter 4 and later historical chapter numbers shift by one.

Adding a chapter

One directory per chapter, named chapter-<n>/, following the existing convention:

• chapter-<n>/chapter-<n>.md — canonical Markdown source, the review copy
• chapter-<n>/graphics/ — accepted figures with their prompt and metadata audit records
• chapter-<n>/release/ — rendered release assets (HTML / PDF / DOCX), generated after the control pass
• chapter-<n>/scripts/ — release rendering script

Add the new chapter to the table above in the same change, and record its scope boundary against the preceding chapter.

Working rules

• main is protected. No direct pushes; every change goes in through a pull request.
• The Markdown source is the review copy. Release assets are regenerated after the control pass, never hand-edited.
• A chapter is only marked Released once its audit, technical review and rendered-reader inspection have passed.

History

This repository replaces the former per-chapter repositories giga/chapter-1, giga/chapter-2 and giga/chapter-3, whose full content and commit history were merged in here. Those repositories are archived; no work happens in them. Chapter 1's source was renamed from cloud-computing-public-services-decision-document.md to chapter-1.md during the consolidation, and the references in chapter-1/SUMMARY.md and chapter-1/scripts/render_release.py were updated to match.