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Updating, monitoring, and running the platform on a site that never phones home.
Articles in Operations
- Operations
The record an auditor can read
Substrate keeps three local records: Evaluation traces for every operation, Watchman's integrity history, and the provenance record for every node. Together they answer what ran, on what, and when.
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- Operations
Capacity planning for a serving pool
Sizing a Substrate pool starts with the callers and their latency budgets, not with hardware. Count the callers, know their budgets, and let the pool tell you when it is near its edge.
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- Operations
Customer-initiated support on the platform
Support for Substrate runs through the customer portal, and every remote session starts with the customer. On sovereign sites, a session needs the customer's attestation and ends on a hard expiry.
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- Operations
How signed updates reach the appliance
Updates to Substrate are signed bundles. The customer downloads them from the portal or carries them in on media; the appliance verifies the signature, loads the release, and keeps the previous one.
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Monitoring a platform that never phones home
Substrate exposes its health, traces, and integrity record on the facility network and sends nothing anywhere else. Here is how a site watches it with the tooling it already has.
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