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c4-l1-context
IMP L1 — System Context
L1 view showing where IMP sits: inside boundary operator and agent, outside CNI, storage, tenant apps, and observers.
IMP BOUNDARY
EXTERNAL
ACTOR
Platform Admin
installs CRDs/policy
ACTOR
Cluster User
creates ImpVM
OBSERVE
Prometheus
metrics + alerts
CTRL
IMP Control Plane
Operator · reconcile
DATA
IMP Data Plane
Agent · Firecracker
STORE
K8s API + etcd
source of truth
EXT
CNI — Cilium
IPAM · policy
EXT
OCI + Storage
artifacts
GUEST
Tenant VM app
out of scope
LEGEND
Focal — Control plane
Data plane
Store
External / optional