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Greenfield vs lab spokes

Path How clusters appear When to use
Greenfield Console / FleetClusterJoin + flow playbooks Production-shaped installs; install-hub.sh
Maintainer lab Ansible spokes.yml and inventory hosts Homelab regression with pre-defined hosts

Both share the same architecture (independent K3s, OCM, ManifestWork, DCM providers, fleet-edge). Greenfield operators should not run fleet-deploy.yml as the default path.

Nested workload clusters via KubeVirt + K3s on hypervisor parents remain TBD. Use FleetClusterJoin on VMs today.