Merge pull request 'Give /var/lib/systemd and /var/lib/postgres back to their packages and keep the two modules' own files under /var/lib/mesh (issue 1873, delivery A)' (#453) from fix/1873-system-state-dirs into main

This commit was merged in pull request #453.
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7 changed files with 179 additions and 16 deletions
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# Modules whose directory lies in a system package's directory today (rule 5 of checks/owned, issue 1841), each with
# the issue that moves it out: "<module> <resource id> issue <number>". This list only shrinks: a line whose module
# no longer collides is refused, and so is a line the trunk's copy does not hold.
postgres consumers issue 1873
postgres grants issue 1873
postgres state issue 1873
systemd state issue 1873
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@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ what is declared, refusing secrets, taking back what is no longer declared, and
Each directory or archive this module declares says how it treats a file it did not write (ADR 0422, ADR 0416).
- `${dir:state}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `${dir:data}` (`/var/lib/mesh/<module>`): everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `${dir:state}`: the package's own directory, declared for one delivery with the package's owner and mode so the node-engine gives it back (issue 1873); the module keeps nothing there.
- `${dir:grants}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `/var/lib/mesh-store`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `${dir:store-data}/dumps`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
package main
// The module's directories (novox/hq issue 1873): its state directory said place ".", which is /var/lib/postgres,
// the postgresql package's own (tmpfiles.d/postgresql.conf: postgres, 0700), and its grants directory, placed by
// default, lay inside it; the node-engine gave /var/lib/postgres to the operator's account. What the module keeps
// moves to the mesh's directory for it, and for one delivery the record "state" states the package's owner and mode,
// so the node-engine, which takes a directory it recorded at the same path under the same id as its own, gives it
// back. The store's data is not touched: it is /var/lib/mesh-store, as before.
import (
"encoding/json"
"os"
"reflect"
"strings"
"testing"
)
func postgresManifest(t *testing.T) (map[string]map[string]any, map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if strings.Contains(string(raw), "${dir:state}") {
t.Errorf("the manifest still keeps something in ${dir:state}, which is /var/lib/postgres")
}
var m map[string]any
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
out := map[string]map[string]any{}
list, _ := m["resources"].([]any)
for _, x := range list {
r, _ := x.(map[string]any)
out[r["id"].(string)] = r
}
return out, m
}
// 1873/AC2: secrets, consumers and grants are kept in <data root>/mesh/postgres; "state" gives /var/lib/postgres back
// to postgres, 0700; the store's data and dumps are as they were.
func TestTheModuleKeepsItsFilesOutsideThePackagesDirectory(t *testing.T) {
rs, m := postgresManifest(t)
data := rs["data"]
if data == nil || data["type"] != "directory" || data["place"] != "mesh" || data["path"] != nil || data["mode"] != "0700" {
t.Fatalf("the module's directory is placed \"mesh\" with no path, 0700 (/var/lib/mesh/postgres): %v", data)
}
if g := rs["grants"]; g == nil || g["path"] != "${dir:data}/grants" || g["place"] != nil {
t.Errorf("grants lies in the module's directory: %v", g)
}
if c := rs["consumers"]; c == nil || c["path"] != "${dir:data}/consumers.json" {
t.Errorf("consumers.json lies in the module's directory: %v", c)
}
own, _ := m["own-secrets"].(map[string]any)
if own["superuser"] != "${dir:data}/superuser.secret" || own["reader"] != "${dir:data}/reader.secret" {
t.Errorf("the own secrets lie in the module's directory: %v", own)
}
state := rs["state"]
if state == nil || state["type"] != "directory" || state["path"] != "/var/lib/postgres" || state["owner"] != "postgres" ||
state["mode"] != "0700" || state["place"] != nil {
t.Errorf("state gives /var/lib/postgres back as postgresql declares it, postgres 0700: %v", state)
}
// The store's data, its dumps and how the container reads them: exactly as before.
if s := rs["store-data"]; !reflect.DeepEqual(s, map[string]any{"id": "store-data", "type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh-store", "mode": "0700", "owner": "999:70", "unknown": "program"}) {
t.Errorf("store-data changed: %v", s)
}
if d := rs["dumps"]; !reflect.DeepEqual(d, map[string]any{"id": "dumps", "type": "directory",
"path": "${dir:store-data}/dumps", "mode": "0700", "owner": "999:70", "unknown": "program"}) {
t.Errorf("dumps changed: %v", d)
}
server := rs["server"]
if !reflect.DeepEqual(server["volumes"], []any{"/var/lib/mesh-store:/var/lib/postgresql/data",
"${dir:data}/superuser.secret:/run/secrets/superuser:ro"}) {
t.Errorf("the container's volumes: %v", server["volumes"])
}
if env, _ := server["env"].(map[string]any); env["PGDATA"] != "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata" {
t.Errorf("PGDATA changed: %v", env)
}
build, _ := m["build"].(map[string]any)
artifacts, _ := build["artifacts"].([]any)
env := artifacts[0].(map[string]any)["env"].(map[string]any)
for key, want := range map[string]string{
"MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:data}/superuser.secret",
"MESH_POSTGRES_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:data}/reader.secret",
"MESH_CONSUMERS_FILE": "${dir:data}/consumers.json",
"MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
} {
if env[key] != want {
t.Errorf("%s is %v, not %s", key, env[key], want)
}
}
}
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"postgres-database": "${dir:grants}"
},
"own-secrets": {
"superuser": "${dir:state}/superuser.secret",
"reader": "${dir:state}/reader.secret"
"superuser": "${dir:data}/superuser.secret",
"reader": "${dir:data}/reader.secret"
},
"data": {
"own": [
@@ -93,22 +93,31 @@
},
"resources": [
{
"id": "state",
"id": "data",
"type": "directory",
"mode": "0700",
"place": ".",
"place": "mesh",
"unknown": "program"
},
{
"id": "state",
"type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/postgres",
"owner": "postgres",
"mode": "0700",
"unknown": "program"
},
{
"id": "grants",
"type": "directory",
"path": "${dir:data}/grants",
"mode": "0700",
"unknown": "program"
},
{
"id": "consumers",
"type": "file",
"path": "${dir:state}/consumers.json",
"path": "${dir:data}/consumers.json",
"mode": "0600",
"template": "files/consumers.json"
},
@@ -146,7 +155,7 @@
],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/mesh-store:/var/lib/postgresql/data",
"${dir:state}/superuser.secret:/run/secrets/superuser:ro"
"${dir:data}/superuser.secret:/run/secrets/superuser:ro"
]
},
{
@@ -169,10 +178,10 @@
],
"env": {
"MESH_PROVISION_POSTGRES": "postgres://postgres@127.0.0.1:${port:5432}/postgres?sslmode=disable",
"MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/superuser.secret",
"MESH_PROVISION_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:data}/superuser.secret",
"MESH_RECEIVES": "${dir:grants}/mesh.json",
"MESH_POSTGRES_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:state}/reader.secret",
"MESH_CONSUMERS_FILE": "${dir:state}/consumers.json"
"MESH_POSTGRES_READER_PASSWORD_FILE": "${dir:data}/reader.secret",
"MESH_CONSUMERS_FILE": "${dir:data}/consumers.json"
}
},
{
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@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ The `systemd` module of the mesh catalogue: installs the package `systemd`; clai
Each directory or archive this module declares says how it treats a file it did not write (ADR 0422, ADR 0416).
- `${dir:state}`: everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `${dir:data}` (`/var/lib/mesh/<module>`): everything in it is the program's; the mesh moves nothing out (ADR 0422 §2).
- `${dir:state}`: the package's own directory, declared for one delivery with the package's owner and mode so the node-engine gives it back (issue 1873); the module keeps nothing there.
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
package main
// The module's directories (novox/hq issue 1873): its state directory said place ".", which is /var/lib/systemd,
// systemd's own directory (tmpfiles.d/systemd.conf: d /var/lib/systemd 0755 root root); the node-engine gave it to
// the operator's account, mode 0700, on every machine. What the tools keep moves to the mesh's directory for the
// module, and for one delivery the record "state" states the package's owner and mode, so the node-engine, which
// takes a directory it recorded at the same path under the same id as its own, gives it back.
import (
"encoding/json"
"os"
"testing"
)
func manifestResources(t *testing.T) (map[string]map[string]any, map[string]any) {
t.Helper()
raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../module.json")
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var m map[string]any
if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &m); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
out := map[string]map[string]any{}
list, _ := m["resources"].([]any)
for _, x := range list {
r, _ := x.(map[string]any)
out[r["id"].(string)] = r
}
return out, m
}
// 1873/AC1: the tools' record is kept in <data root>/mesh/systemd; "state" gives /var/lib/systemd back to root, 0755.
func TestTheToolsKeepTheirRecordOutsideSystemdsOwnDirectory(t *testing.T) {
rs, m := manifestResources(t)
data := rs["data"]
if data == nil || data["type"] != "directory" || data["place"] != "mesh" || data["path"] != nil {
t.Fatalf("the tools' directory is placed \"mesh\" with no path (/var/lib/mesh/systemd): %v", data)
}
build, _ := m["build"].(map[string]any)
artifacts, _ := build["artifacts"].([]any)
env := artifacts[0].(map[string]any)["env"].(map[string]any)
if env["MESH_SYSTEMD_STATE"] != "${dir:data}" {
t.Errorf("MESH_SYSTEMD_STATE is %v, not ${dir:data}", env["MESH_SYSTEMD_STATE"])
}
state := rs["state"]
if state == nil || state["type"] != "directory" || state["path"] != "/var/lib/systemd" || state["owner"] != "root" ||
state["mode"] != "0755" || state["place"] != nil {
t.Errorf("state gives /var/lib/systemd back as systemd declares it, root 0755: %v", state)
}
}
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"systemd-tools"
],
"env": {
"MESH_SYSTEMD_STATE": "${dir:state}"
"MESH_SYSTEMD_STATE": "${dir:data}"
}
}
]
@@ -53,10 +53,18 @@
"package": "systemd"
},
{
"id": "state",
"id": "data",
"type": "directory",
"mode": "0700",
"place": ".",
"place": "mesh",
"unknown": "program"
},
{
"id": "state",
"type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/systemd",
"owner": "root",
"mode": "0755",
"unknown": "program"
}
]