The authority makes its own root at first start, and the proxy fetches it through a gate

step-ca's root certificate, its key and that key's password were own secrets — random
bytes the mesh minted, which no certificate is (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/076). The mesh
mints only the CA password now; step-ca makes its root at first start and serves it
at /roots.pem, which the manifest now names beside the ACME directory. The route
proxy fetches that root over the mesh network in a run-once step before it starts,
instead of being handed a served fact that could only be written before anything ran
(ADR 0098).
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commit 28b8feebfc
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@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
"serves": {
"acme-ca": {
"path": "/acme/acme/directory",
"root": ""
"roots": "/roots.pem"
}
},
"listens": [
@@ -25,10 +25,7 @@
}
],
"own-secrets": {
"password": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/password",
"root-cert": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-cert",
"root-key": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-key",
"root-key-password": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-key-password"
"password": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/password"
},
"resources": [
{
@@ -59,30 +56,6 @@
"mode": "0600",
"content": "DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_PASSWORD=${secret:password}\nDOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_DNS_NAMES=${machine:at},${machine:name},localhost,127.0.0.1\n"
},
{
"id": "root-cert-file",
"type": "file",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-cert.pem",
"mode": "0600",
"owner": "1000:1000",
"content": "${secret:root-cert}"
},
{
"id": "root-key-file",
"type": "file",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-key.pem",
"mode": "0600",
"owner": "1000:1000",
"content": "${secret:root-key}"
},
{
"id": "root-key-password-file",
"type": "file",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh/step-ca/root-key-password.txt",
"mode": "0600",
"owner": "1000:1000",
"content": "${secret:root-key-password}"
},
{
"id": "server",
"type": "container",
@@ -95,10 +68,7 @@
"env": {
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_NAME": "Mesh Internal CA",
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_ACME": "true",
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_REMOTE_MANAGEMENT": "false",
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_ROOT_FILE": "/run/mesh/root-cert.pem",
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_KEY_FILE": "/run/mesh/root-key.pem",
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_KEY_PASSWORD_FILE": "/run/mesh/root-key-password.txt"
"DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_REMOTE_MANAGEMENT": "false"
},
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/step-ca:/home/step",