The decision (the mesh assigns a container's machine-side port; a module
says only what it needs) was proposed 2026-09-01, and the machinery
already implements it in full -- internal/inventory/ports.go's PortFor,
declaration.go's publishedOn. What was missing was the catalogue actually
complying: 14 of 46 modules baked a machine-side number into their own
manifest anyway. mesh-catalog PR fixes 11 of them (the two defensible
kinds -- foundation, protocol-fixed -- are left alone, per the issue's own
categories). Accepting the decision now that it's actually enforced, and
closing the issue it was blocking.
Checks pass.
Playbook 03 step 2: move status to diagnosing, then located once the
owner is known. located-in is filled with four confirmed packages —
the owner is known.
The carried-peer record (CarriedPeer/TunnelPeer) lives in mesh-controller
internal/inventory, not internal/catalogue. internal/catalogue is the
right package for the zone-generation side of the fix (facts.go's
nodeZones), but a different concern from where the name field itself
would go. Split the two so a decision record doesn't get pointed at the
wrong package.
Checked why ADR 0104's forward-to-predecessor shape doesn't transfer to the
resolver the way it did the proxy: DNS is one process on one port, and
assigning the mesh's dnsmasq module replaces it in place, so there is no
predecessor process left standing to forward to.
But /etc/dnsmasq.d/hal-dns.conf's static address= lines for ace/shanks/g14
match the mesh's own carried-peer addresses from overlay show exactly. The
name a carried peer needs isn't a guess the operator has to make under
pressure — it's a transcription of a record the predecessor already has and
has been correctly serving for six days. Located in mesh-controller (no way
to attach a name to a carried peer today) and the dnsmasq module (doesn't
emit a wildcard for a named-but-uncarried peer). Not implemented.
hq cannot hold the migration's operational record — it names machines, addresses and
paths, and this repository is public — but it can say where that record is, which is what
this map is for. Asked for by the operator, who had to be told.
111, resolved: the map the control plane hands a resolution holds the machines and the
names the mesh merely serves, and the resolver's zones were given both — inventing names
under a suffix it answers authoritatively for. 112, open: adopting a tunnel gives the mesh
the peers' addresses and none of their names, so taking the resolver before they enrol
stops three machines resolving at all.
Both found by reading the plan before pushing it.
Found reviewing the resolver's conversion. Nothing fails while the node is adopted; it
fails at the flip, and it is the same split that decided which container survived the
hub's address change.
Found when adopting the tunnel moved the hub's address: the declaration followed, the
running container did not, and the forge lost its database. Issue 102's rule broken one
level down, and issue 103's fix stopping one input short.
Implemented in mesh-controller #49 and mesh-host #24. One proposal was rejected on the
record's own terms: converging the hub is not made to wait on other machines' migrations.
The addresses follow: the control plane holds the ports the node gave, a recorded build
holds no address at all, and the two forwarders that had been holding the control plane
together are removed. 097's stranded container turned out to be listening on every
interface and connected to the mesh's store — by its own old database, which is the only
reason nothing was at risk.
Both from the review of the issue-104 fix: a hand-applied file on an enrolled node is
recorded as carried and would remove the foundation, and nothing on the wire orders one
declaration against another.
Measured: AMQP is spoken in three places of the mesh's own code and in none of the
sdk or the modules; the predecessor's world is AMQP and retiring. NATS answers every
guarantee the bus relies on, durability via JetStream. Recommended: not underneath
the migration, not after it either — in parallel, one rehearsed rollout.
Two birth-address outages and a registry that would have been the third; a
container that keeps a stale environment after its file changes; a host command
that applied a converged declaration to an adopted node; the hub and the vault
without seats. And the decision the operator made under it all: the hub adopts
the predecessor's tunnel in place, key and peers and range and port.
Found checking the third cutover rather than running it. The first two were safe by
accident — both are reached through a host port, which survives a change of owner.
This is the first constraint found that decides the order of the migration.
Found at the second cutover. Carrying a value in works only for a module's own
secrets; a secret answered by the provision is minted, and six catalogue modules
take one that way.
Three modules in a row on one machine; the first was found by taking it and cost a
three-minute outage. The runbook's answer is a rule a person must remember, which is
the shape this repository says not to settle for.
The first pass answered under both ends, which review showed is the same fault seen
from the other side where two mappings share a number. Verified on the machine: the
forge is back on the port its own configuration has always advertised.
Found reading the second module's cutover rather than running it: the catalogue's
config drops a rule the machine's has, and no step puts the two side by side.
094's cause is one blind spot read from two ends, written up in its diagnosis; the fix
answers the first open question and not the other two, which become 096. 097 was found
looking at what the forge's cutover left running.
jschoubben