Feature work from the 2026-07 session: Settings IA - Replace the flat 27-card settings hub with a persistent two-pane shell (SettingsLayout.vue): grouped, searchable left rail + content pane. - Nest all settings/* routes under the shell via router post-processing; shared nav catalog in settingsNav.js. Group by asset class (PCs, Printers, Equipment, Network) so per-type settings stop scattering. Custom fields (core) - customfields + customfieldvalues tables (migration 7d14), CRUD API at /api/customfields, per-asset value get/save. - Settings management page + reusable CustomFieldsSection (detail) and CustomFieldsInputs (form) wired into all four asset types. Warranty (new plugin) - plugins/warranty: warranties + warrantyassets (migration 7d15), derived coverage status, provider abstraction (manual now; Dell/Lenovo/HP stubs). - API CRUD + per-asset panel + report buckets; WarrantyPanel on all four detail pages; Warranties management page; Warranty report + Reports card. - Seed warranty.* permissions. Printer drivers - printerdrivers table (migration 7d13) linked to printer models; drivers now surface on the matching printer's detail page. Other - PCDetail rebalanced (Network + Status + Warranty + custom fields on the right). - Rename PCs list "Features" column to "Remote Access"; fix badge hover underline. - Drop equipment islocationonly field. - Centralize asset-type label/route maps into utils/assetTypes.js. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# ADR-004: Deployment topology (per-site instances)
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- **Status:** ACCEPTED
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- **Date:** 2026-05-08
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- **Deciders:** cproudlock
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## Context
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shopdb-flask manages shop-floor inventory. If multiple GE Aerospace sites adopt it, the deployment can take one of two shapes:
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| Model | How it works |
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| **Per-site instances** | Each site runs its own Flask + MySQL + Vue stack. Each site has its own DB, its own users, its own enabled-plugin list, its own deploy. Sites are isolated. |
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| **Multi-tenant single instance** | One central Flask + MySQL + Vue stack serves all sites. A `siteid` foreign key on every asset partitions data. Auth distinguishes which site a user belongs to. |
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The codebase today is single-tenant per deployment. There is no `siteid` column, no tenant filter, no cross-site auth model. Plugins can be enabled / disabled but only globally for the running instance.
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## Decision
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**PROPOSED:** **Per-site instances.** Each adopting site runs its own dedicated stack. The framework does not support multi-tenancy.
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Each site:
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- Owns its database (own credentials, own backup policy, own retention). The
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database charset is part of the contract: it must be **utf8mb4**
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(`utf8mb4_unicode_ci`). The migration chain creates every table utf8mb4, and
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the connection pins `?charset=utf8mb4`. A site that creates the database with
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a different default charset (older MySQL defaults to latin1) gets a schema
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that silently diverges from every other site. See `docs/DEPLOY.md`.
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- Picks its own enabled plugins
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- Configures its own JWT secret, CORS allowlist, Zabbix integration, Active Directory binding
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- Deploys at its own cadence
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The framework provides:
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- A `Dockerfile` and `docker-compose.yml` template suitable for a single-site deploy
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- A `.env.example` listing all required environment variables
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- A `docs/DEPLOY.md` walking through a fresh-site install
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## Consequences
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### Positive
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- Simpler code: no tenant filter on every query, no cross-tenant auth, no shared-state partitioning bugs.
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- Sites are independent. A schema change at one site does not affect another. A plugin crash at one site does not blast radius to other sites.
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- Clear ownership: each site's IT team owns their own stack and data. Compliance and audit boundaries match operational boundaries.
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- Aligns with how GE Aerospace sites already operate (independent IT, independent shop floors).
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### Negative / cost
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- No cross-site reporting out of the box. If GE corporate ever wants a fleet-wide view, it has to be built on top (e.g., a roll-up dashboard that queries each site's API). That layer is out of scope for the framework.
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- Each site administers its own stack. Higher operational overhead than a single central instance, but each site already runs its own infrastructure.
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- Updates require visiting each site's deploy. Fine for the current adoption model; revisit if dozens of sites adopt.
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### Neutral
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- No `siteid` column needed. The existence of one DB per site is the partition.
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## Alternatives considered
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1. **Multi-tenant single instance.** Lower operational overhead at scale, easier cross-site reporting, but adds significant code complexity and risk: every query needs a tenant filter, auth gets complex, schema migrations affect every site at once, and a bug at one site can leak data across sites. Rejected for v1; revisit if and only if more than five sites adopt and operational overhead becomes painful.
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2. **Hybrid: per-site DB but central app server.** Adds the operational complexity of multi-tenancy without isolating the failure domain (one app crash = all sites down). Rejected.
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## Migration strategy (resolved)
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Deploys run a single core Alembic chain: `flask db upgrade`. Bundled plugins do
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NOT carry their own migration chains - their tables are folded into the core
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chain (migration `7c04_fold_plugin_schema`). This was a deliberate resolution of
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the Phase 7B footgun where bundled-plugin baselines and the core baseline both
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created the same tables, so `flask plugin upgrade-all` would conflict. A fresh
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`flask db upgrade` reproduces the live schema exactly (verified on a scratch DB).
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External (out-of-tree) plugins per ADR-003 may still ship their own migrations;
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the framework supports per-plugin chains for them. Only the in-tree bundled
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plugins are consolidated into core.
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## Open questions
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- Should the framework provide an optional **read-only fleet roll-up** mode where a "central" instance can pull aggregate metrics from each site's API? Defer. Out of scope for v1.
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- Backup strategy per site: framework recommendation, or each site decides? Framework should publish a recommended backup runbook (mysqldump + offsite copy) but not enforce.
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- Auth federation: each site has its own user table, or sites can share an LDAP / SSO? Recommend documenting the LDAP config knob in `.env.example` so sites can plug in their own auth without code change.
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## References
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- `shopdb/config.py` (currently single-tenant, no `siteid`)
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- ADR-001 (asset model is per-site, not cross-site)
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- ADR-003 (plugin distribution per site)
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