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Add MICROSERVICE-CLASSIFICATION.md documenting the distinction between device management and workload management microservices in EVE. Device management microservices (nim, zedagent, client, baseosmgr, downloader, verifier, volumemgr, nodeagent, tpmmgr, logmanager/ loguploader) must remain operational for the device to stay remotely manageable. A bug here may prevent the controller from reaching the device, requiring physical intervention to recover. downloader, verifier, and volumemgr are dual-use, serving both EVE-OS update content and application content. Workload management microservices (domainmgr, zedrouter, zedmanager, diag, hypervisors, container runtime) handle running applications on the device. Their failure is remotely recoverable. diag is observability-only and not in the controller communication path. The document explains the implications of this split for testing priority, code review rigor, and the EVE A/B partition scheme. Update CODE-COVERAGE.md to note that device management coverage gaps carry higher operational risk and should be prioritized over equal-sized workload management gaps. Update README.md to reference the new document from the EVE Internals section. Signed-off-by: eriknordmark <erik@zededa.com> Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Add
docs/MICROSERVICE-CLASSIFICATION.mddocumenting the distinction betweendevice management and workload management microservices in EVE.
Also updates
docs/CODE-COVERAGE.mdto note that device management coveragegaps carry higher operational risk and should be prioritized over equal-sized
workload management gaps, and updates
docs/README.mdto reference the newdocument from the EVE Internals section.
How to test and validate this PR
Documentation-only change. Verify that:
MICROSERVICE-CLASSIFICATION.mdtoCODE-COVERAGE.mdandEVE-K.mdresolve correctly.
respective service documentation.
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