Project Sovereign is a self-hosted, hyper-converged edge cloud engineered to enforce absolute data sovereignty, zero-telemetry privacy, and physical hardware cycle optimization. The system handles decentralized cryptographic mesh networking, structured data storage tiers, local machine learning computer vision processing, and edge AI inferencing loops.
Originally designed for an enterprise HP ProLiant MicroServer running a Type-1 Hypervisor (Proxmox VE) with a multi-drive ZFS storage pool, the system was dynamically refactored to eliminate hypervisor layer overhead (recovering 1–2 GB of system RAM and reducing scheduling latencies).
- Host Layer System: Ivy Bridge MacBook Pro (Legacy 2012 Hardware Node).
- Operating System Engine: Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS installed directly onto bare metal.
- Compute Optimization Loop: To accommodate the lack of modern AVX2 data-center vector instructions on mobile Ivy Bridge chips, the containerized layer was stripped of heavy virtualization constraints—allowing
llama.cppto compile directly onto raw host bare metal to optimize native C++ loop speeds for GGUF quantized models.
This project rejects manual environment configuration ("ClickOps"). The repository is built strictly using modular Infrastructure as Code (IaC) components:
project-sovereign/
├── .gitignore # Cryptographic data leak barrier
├── README.md # Main architecture navigation hub
├── docker-compose.yml # Central multi-tier service orchestrator
├── config/
│ └── headscale/
│ ├── config.yaml # Core overlay networking control plane rules
│ └── acls.json # Hardware access firewall policies
└── documentation/
└── troubleshooting.md # 12-Incident Diagnostic Ledger & Runbooks
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