# Stage 1 - Foundation + Environments (Weeks 1-3)

## Goal
Prepare a runnable technical baseline: on-prem deployment patterns, CI/CD, API contracts, RBAC, service monitoring.

## Scope
- Gateway skeleton
- auth-service, users API, audit-service
- health endpoints for all services
- OpenAPI stage 1 contracts
- event schema baseline
- docker-compose + Kubernetes + Helm baseline
- CI workflow

## Deliverables
- `deployment/*`
- `.github/workflows/ci.yml`
- `contracts/openapi/stage1-auth-users-health-audit.yaml`
- `contracts/events/*.json`

## Gate 1 DoD
- Auto deploy path documented
- Login + roles work
- Health endpoints available
- API/event contracts frozen