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+# OPC Gateway — Deploy Notes (SIENTIAPDE-1972)
+
+This repo has no Dockerfile and no `values/` directory — that's by design (see
+below). This doc captures what the Helm, container-images, and platform repos
+need to know to deploy the gateway. Cross-reference:
+`docs/superpowers/specs/2026-07-13-opc-gateway-design.md` (§9/§10/§12).
+
+## Entrypoint & image
+
+- Runs as `ingestor.app` (`PYTHON_APP` entrypoint), cloned from Gitea at pod
+  start onto the shared **`sientia-module`** base image (Python 3.11+).
+- No repo-local Dockerfile: images are centralized in
+  `sientia-container-images`.
+- New pip deps that must be present in the image / library distribution
+  (see `requirements.txt`):
+  - `nats-py>=2.6`
+  - `grpcio>=1.60`
+  - `grpcio-tools>=1.60`
+  - the `sientia_do` release that includes SIENTIAPDE-1590 (generic
+    Mongo/MinIO/Postgres methods used by the gateway).
+
+## Env (new since the ingestor)
+
+From `.env.example`, `# OPC Gateway` block:
+
+- `NATS_URL`
+- `NATS_WRITE_SUBJECT`
+- `NATS_QUEUE`
+- `GRPC_ENABLED`
+- `GRPC_PORT`
+- `CERT_BUCKET`
+- `CERT_CACHE_DIR`
+- `WRITE_TIMESTAMP`
+- `WRITE_QUALITY`
+- `WRITE_MIN_PAUSE_S`
+- `IDLE_CONN_MAX_S`
+
+Plus MinIO (client cert storage) and Postgres (`write_status` updates):
+
+- `MINIO_ENDPOINT`, `MINIO_ACCESS_KEY`, `MINIO_SECRET_KEY`, `MINIO_SECURE`
+- `POSTGRES_HOST`, `POSTGRES_PORT`, `POSTGRES_USER`, `POSTGRES_PASSWORD`,
+  `POSTGRES_DBNAME`, `POSTGRES_MIN_CONNECTIONS`, `POSTGRES_MAX_CONNECTIONS`
+
+## Health probe
+
+Exec probe (platform DataOps standard):
+
+```
+curl -sf http://localhost:9090/metrics | grep -q '^app_up{.*} 1'
+```
+
+Verified: `ingestor/app.py` sets `metrics.APP_UP.labels(pod_id=...).set(1)`
+right after `start_http_server(HTTP_METRICS_PORT, default 9090)` in
+`start_prometheus_server()`, and `.set(0)` on shutdown in the main loop's
+`finally`/exit path. A runtime check (prometheus_client HTTP server, gauge
+set to 1, scraped over HTTP) produced the exposition line
+`app_up{pod_id="x"} 1.0`, which matches the probe regex.
+
+## waitForDependencies
+
+Init-container wait list: **Gitea, MongoDB, Redis, Postgres, MinIO, NATS**.
+
+NATS is also tolerated at runtime: the app starts even if NATS is
+unreachable and the `nats-py` client retries/reconnects internally
+(`ingestor/adapters/nats_consumer.py` — no custom reconnect logic, relies on
+nats-py's built-in reconnection); only the first connection failure should
+raise a notification, not every retry.
+
+## NetworkPolicy
+
+- Egress: Mongo, Redis, Postgres, MinIO, NATS, OPC servers (port 4840).
+- Ingress: Prometheus scrape on 9090.
+- gRPC port (default 50051): **internal-only**, no auth — there is no
+  consumer yet. Only add an ingress rule when a real caller appears, per the
+  feature owner (Vitor Pimentel).
+
+## Cert cache
+
+- `CERT_CACHE_DIR` (default `/tmp/opc-certs`) must be writable —
+  `emptyDir`/tmpfs, since the pod root filesystem is read-only.
+- Certs are sourced from MinIO bucket `sientia-dataops` + Mongo collection
+  `platform_certificates`.
+
+## ServiceMonitor
+
+- Label `release: kube-prometheus-stack`.
+
+## Cross-repo integration gates
+
+- Subscription v2 + gRPC persist land at **SIENTIAPDE-1974** (Orchestrator).
+- `write_status` column via Flyway (`sientia-dataops-database-migrations`) +
+  the Laborious DataFrame change land at **SIENTIAPDE-1975**.
+- NATS broker provisioning on the air-gapped platform is
+  **SIENTIAPDE-1985**.