ADR 0147: a module anchors the mesh's authority, and issue 146: the foundation cannot be raised #184

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jschoubben merged 3 commits from decision/0147-a-module-anchors-the-meshs-authority into main 2026-09-29 14:06:41 +00:00
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jschoubben bffd2af40c Issue 146 diagnosed: four faults stacked, three fixed, the fourth is genesis
Raising a first node hits them in order: the bundle's bus image named for a
registry that is gone; the certificate made by openssl in an image that has
none; enrolment dialling TLS at a bus that speaks first, then refusing its own
token for the empty bus. Each was right until the bus changed and nothing has
raised a foundation since.

The fourth is not a patch: the installer carries the bus's first user list and
the controller composes the rest through the bus being a module, and at genesis
there is no module — so the first node cannot be let onto the bus it just
raised.
2026-09-29 15:42:32 +02:00
jschoubben 4a51ea4b3a Issue 146: the foundation cannot be raised on the bus the mesh runs on
Found trying to run ADR 0147's bed. The older bundle raises the previous
broker and a control plane that refuses to start without MESH_BUS_NATS; the
newer one stops a step earlier, asking for a certificate from openssl in an
image that has none. No bed can run while this holds, so 0147's check section
now says what actually stands behind it — the rendering, not a machine.
2026-09-29 15:25:58 +02:00
jschoubben 6c14d313b8 ADR 0147: a module anchors the mesh's authority on a machine, and takes it away again
Issue 129: every internal HTTPS name fails verification on every machine,
because nothing has ever written the mesh's root into a trust store. The
report proposed the controller inject it the way the private network writes
the registry's trust; this record rejects that — reachability and trust are
not the same fact, and where anchors live is the host's difference, not the
controller's. A module requiring internal-acme-ca does the whole of it, and
being unassigned undoes it.
2026-09-29 15:02:37 +02:00