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What is Solti Project

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What is Solti Project

SOLTI - Systems Oriented Laboratory Testing & Integration

Documentation Collection
This directory contains the core documentation, philosophy, and architecture for the SOLTI ecosystem.

What is SOLTI?

SOLTI provides a comprehensive framework for testing and integrating system components in a controlled environment. The project emphasizes methodical testing, system behavior analysis, and component integration.

  • Systems: Managing and testing system-of-systems
  • Oriented: Structured and purposeful approach
  • Laboratory: Controlled testing environment
  • Testing: Verification and validation
  • Integration: Component interconnection and interaction

Named after Sir Georg Solti, renowned for his precise and analytical conducting style.

Documentation Guide

For Understanding SOLTI Philosophy

Read: solti.md

  • The complete development journey and philosophy
  • Why SOLTI exists and how it evolved
  • Working with Claude AI as a pair programmer
  • Testing philosophy and patterns
  • Technology stack details

For Current Development Status

Read: Development.md

  • Current development diary
  • What's being worked on now
  • Recent changes and progress

For Testing Methodology

Read: TestingConcept.md and TestingDesignPattern.md

  • Testing philosophy and concepts
  • Design patterns for verification
  • Multi-level verification structures

For Implementation Examples

Browse: artifacts/

  • Team development guides
  • Security assessment templates
  • Grafana Alloy reference implementations

Component Repositories

SOLTI is organized as multiple Ansible Galaxy collections, each maintained in separate GitHub repositories:

Production Ready

solti-monitoring - ✅ Production Ready

  • Comprehensive metrics and log collection
  • Telegraf, InfluxDB, Loki, Alloy integration
  • Fail2ban, Wazuh agent support
  • Advanced testing frameworks

solti-containers - ✅ Production Ready

  • Containerized development and testing services
  • Elasticsearch, HashiVault, Mattermost, Redis, Traefik, MinIO
  • Rootless Podman with systemd integration
  • Standardized SOLTI container pattern

In Development

solti-ensemble - 🚧 Active Development

  • Infrastructure automation and security hardening
  • MariaDB, Gitea, WireGuard
  • AI-powered security auditing (claude_sectest)
  • SSH hardening, fail2ban configuration

Planned

solti-conductor - 📋 Planned

  • Proxmox VM management and orchestration

solti-score - 📋 Planned

  • Playbooks and operational documentation

Key Features

  • Comprehensive Monitoring - Metrics and log aggregation
  • Container Services - Lightweight testing infrastructure
  • Security Focus - Hardening and auditing roles
  • Automated Testing - Molecule framework across multiple platforms
  • Cross-Platform - Rocky Linux 9, Debian 12, Ubuntu 24
  • AI Integration - Claude-powered security analysis

Testing Philosophy

  • Emphasis on controlled environments
  • Systematic behavior analysis
  • Component isolation capability
  • Integration validation across collections
  • Performance measurement
  • 3D testing matrix: 3 distros × 3 platforms × multiple features

Technology Stack

Automation & Testing:

  • Ansible for infrastructure automation
  • Molecule for testing framework
  • Proxmox for virtualization

Monitoring & Logging:

  • InfluxDB for metrics storage
  • Loki for log aggregation
  • Telegraf for metrics collection
  • Alloy for OpenTelemetry

Container Platform:

  • Podman 4.x+ for rootless containers
  • Systemd with Quadlets for service management
  • Cross-platform container networking

Development Guidelines

  • Modular design with clear separation of concerns
  • Comprehensive testing using Molecule
  • Documented interfaces and APIs
  • Version controlled components
  • Consistent naming conventions
  • Security-first approach

Get Started

  1. New to SOLTI? Start with solti.md to understand the philosophy
  2. Need monitoring? Go to solti-monitoring
  3. Need containers? Go to solti-containers
  4. Need security/database? Go to solti-ensemble

License

MIT-0 - All SOLTI work is freely available without restriction.

Contact

Use GitHub issues in the respective component repositories.

Acknowledgments

  • Sir Georg Solti - Name inspiration for precision and analytical approach
  • Claude AI - Development assistant and pair programming partner
  • Open Source Community - Foundation technologies