# Phase 1 - Infrastructure

Goal: prepare the dedicated ESP Platform VM and the native infrastructure required for the MVP.

Scope:

- Proxmox VM 675 `esp-platform`.
- Debian 12 Bookworm.
- DHCP network with future MikroTik reservation.
- User `codex` with sudo.
- SSH, QEMU guest agent, UFW, fail2ban.
- PostgreSQL native.
- Nginx native on port 88.
- Java, Maven, Python, PlatformIO, esptool.
- Firmware storage in filesystem.
- Project documentation and Git repository inside the VM.

No backend application code is implemented in this preparation step.