Bering

Bering v0.3.1 is the current product release of Bering: a discovery and publishing layer for service topology and endpoint contracts.

Bering turns trace input or explicit topology input into stable JSON artifacts, and it can also run as a long-lived runtime service that emits rolling discovery snapshots plus conservative reconciliation views for trace gaps.

What Bering Does

• deterministic batch discovery from trace files, trace directories, or explicit topology_api inputs
• validation of Bering JSON artifacts against pinned public schemas
• runtime OTLP ingest over HTTP, with optional OTLP/gRPC ingest
• publishing of stable topology and snapshot artifacts for downstream tooling
• discovery-side enrichment through additive overlays

Where Bering Stops

Bering owns discovery and discovery-side public contracts. It does not own simulation math, retry-amplification math, timeout-wave propagation, blast-radius scoring, policy evaluation, gating, or chaos execution.

Product Version vs Schema Version

Do not treat the product release tag as the schema contract version.

• Current product release for this repository: Bering v0.3.1
• Current product git tag / GitHub Release: v0.3.1
• Default emitted schema contracts now are:
  • io.mb3r.bering.model@1.1.0
  • io.mb3r.bering.snapshot@1.1.0
• Previously published contracts remain valid and immutable:
  • io.mb3r.bering.model@1.0.0
  • io.mb3r.bering.snapshot@1.0.0
• Schema publishing tag remains separate: schema-v1.1.0

bering validate accepts both the preserved 1.0.0 artifacts and the current 1.1.0 artifacts.

Installation

Release binaries

Download a release asset from GitHub Releases and verify it with release-checksums.txt.

Minimum supported release archives:

• linux/amd64
• linux/arm64
• darwin/amd64
• darwin/arm64

Also packaged today:

• windows/amd64

Example:

tar -xzf bering_0.3.1_linux_amd64.tar.gz
./bering help

Build from source

go build ./cmd/bering

OCI image

The release pipeline also publishes an OCI image and OCI Helm chart. See docs/install.md for example commands.

First Run

1) Batch discovery from checked-in traces

go run ./cmd/bering discover \
  --input examples/traces/normalized.sample.json \
  --out out/bering-model.json \
  --discovered-at 2026-03-03T00:00:00Z

Expected result: a deterministic io.mb3r.bering.model@1.1.0 artifact.

2) Validate an artifact

go run ./cmd/bering validate \
  --input examples/outputs/bering-model.normalized.sample.json

bering validate accepts both the model artifact and the snapshot envelope.

3) Batch discovery with snapshot output and overlay

go run ./cmd/bering discover \
  --input examples/traces/normalized.sample.json \
  --out out/bering-model.json \
  --snapshot-out out/bering-snapshot.json \
  --overlay configs/discovery.overlay.sample.yaml \
  --discovered-at 2026-03-03T00:00:00Z

Expected result: a model artifact plus an io.mb3r.bering.snapshot@1.1.0 envelope.

4) Run runtime mode

go run ./cmd/bering serve --config configs/serve.sample.yaml

The sample runtime config listens on:

• HTTP: :4318
• OTLP/gRPC: :4317

Useful endpoints:

• POST /v1/traces
• GET /healthz
• GET /readyz
• GET /metrics

5) Use the result with Sheaft

The main downstream handoff is the stable model artifact:

# from a sibling Sheaft repository
go run ./cmd/sheaft run \
  --model ../Bering/examples/outputs/bering-model.normalized.sample.json \
  --policy configs/gate.policy.example.yaml \
  --out-dir out \
  --seed 42

Published Artifacts

Core model

• name: io.mb3r.bering.model
• version: 1.1.0
• uri: https://mb3r-lab.github.io/Bering/schema/model/v1.1.0/model.schema.json
• digest: sha256:bc9a60736c9e6bda9599243fd68f293b88f42ade65321d8267369a5c3214779a

This is the stable topology artifact intended for file-based consumers and tools such as Sheaft. It now carries first-class edge ids, typed service placement and shared-fate metadata, typed edge resilience policy, optional observed edge timing summaries, policy scope metadata, and richer endpoint fidelity.

Snapshot envelope

• name: io.mb3r.bering.snapshot
• version: 1.1.0
• uri: https://mb3r-lab.github.io/Bering/schema/snapshot/v1.1.0/snapshot.schema.json
• digest: sha256:53b127608b2aaa4fabb352b998cd6b2c5ed558764729a09abea56f4f9b40fa01

This wraps the model with runtime window metadata, ingest counts, coverage, provenance, topology diffs, and discovery-side copies of the same typed placement, resilience, and observed edge metadata.

Runtime reconciliation views

Runtime mode also keeps a conservative reconciliation layer for sparse traffic and telemetry gaps:

• raw_window: the current window as observed
• stable_core: the high-confidence retained view
• guardrail_union: the conservative default downstream artifact
• a machine-readable reconciliation report for operators

These runtime views do not change the public io.mb3r.bering.model@1.1.0 or io.mb3r.bering.snapshot@1.1.0 contracts.

Population Today

• topology_api input and discovery overlays are the first-class write surfaces for typed placements, shared_resource_refs, resilience, observed, policy_scope, and richer endpoint metadata.
• Trace discovery can derive stable edge ids, endpoint method and path, and observed.latency_ms.* summaries when span timing exists.
• Generic trace ingestion does not currently infer timeout policies, retry policies, circuit-breaker settings, placement groups, or shared resource references. Those remain out of scope for Bering trace inference today.

Release Packaging

Public release packaging is reproducible through GoReleaser plus GitHub Actions:

• .goreleaser.yaml builds release archives for linux/amd64, linux/arm64, darwin/amd64, darwin/arm64, and windows/amd64
• .github/workflows/release-dry-run.yml validates the release path without publishing
• .github/workflows/release.yml builds the same payload from vX.Y.Z tags and publishes release assets plus OCI artifacts

Release outputs include:

• binary archives
• archive SBOMs
• archive checksums
• contracts pack
• Helm chart package metadata
• OCI image metadata
• release-manifest.json
• release-notes.md

Examples

• Batch inputs: examples/traces/normalized.sample.json, examples/traces/otel.sample.json
• Topology input: examples/topology/topology-api.sample.yaml
• Batch outputs: examples/outputs/bering-model.normalized.sample.json, examples/outputs/bering-snapshot.normalized.sample.json, examples/outputs/bering-model.topology-api.sample.json, examples/outputs/bering-snapshot.topology-api.sample.json
• Runtime config: configs/serve.sample.yaml
• Discovery overlay: configs/discovery.overlay.sample.yaml
• Collector sidecar: examples/collector/otelcol.sidecar.yaml
• Prometheus scrape config: examples/prometheus/bering.prometheus.yml
• Grafana dashboard: examples/grafana/bering-runtime-dashboard.json

Additional Docs

• docs/install.md
• docs/runtime-config.md
• docs/adr/2026-03-21-evidence-weighted-reconciliation.md
• docs/release-assets.md
• docs/schema-publishing.md
• docs/trace-input-format.md
• docs/topology-input-format.md
• docs/mvp-scope-and-limits.md
• docs/architecture.md
• RELEASING.md
• VERSIONING.md
• CHANGELOG.md

CI and Local Checks

go test ./...
go build ./cmd/bering

The full release path is documented in RELEASING.md.

License

MIT (see LICENSE).