The state directories say place "." — the assignment's own root — and
every bind, secret, own-secret, receives and grants path references it
as ${dir:state}/…; grants directories that are their own resources are
placed by id. gitea's two coincidence strings from the first pass
(${dir:data}base.json — resolving correctly by pure concatenation) are
spelled honestly now. What still says /var/lib is inside containers —
the software's contract — or under /var/lib/mesh, the mesh's own
plumbing, which the requirements unification absorbs next. Every
resolved path is byte-identical to what runs; landing this is a no-op
on the node, and the converter checks its own boundaries this time.
Seven data directories drop their paths; the mesh resolves each to
<root>/only-office/<id>, which is exactly where the data already sits —
a textual no-op on this node, and the first module speaking ADR 0112's
vocabulary. The module root and the mesh's own state stay stated.
The /services paths were the adopted-node pattern doing its job: take
replaced containers over the predecessor's data without moving a byte
(gitea set it — 'its data never moved'). With every cutover done the
exception has no reason left, and the operator called it: a nox
module's world is /var/lib/<module>, data included. Six modules
repathed; mssql keeps its /services path deliberately — it is still
held, HAL-run, and moves at its own take. Both trees are one
filesystem, so each move is a rename.
A bare '80' tried to bind the node's port 80 — the edge's — instead of
auto-allocating. 9070 is the predecessor's number and the one the route
contribution already names.
hq issue 091, measured 2026-09-22: 14 of 46 modules with containers fix the
machine side of a published port in their own manifest -- a fact about one
machine (which port HAL happened to publish it on) written into a
definition meant for any node. ADR 0038 already says the mesh assigns the
machine side and a module says only what it needs; the machinery already
does it (internal/inventory/ports.go's PortFor, declaration.go's
publishedOn rewrites a bare port automatically). These 14 just never
complied.
Fixed 11 of them -- stripped to the bare software port, letting assignment
take over: de-spiegel, gitea, hello-web (the demo module), mailu, mssql,
n8n, novox.be, only-office, photos, photos-eef, photos-filip.
Left alone, the two defensible kinds the issue names: postgres/lavinmq/
distribution (foundation, genesis-rewritten per ADR 0100 -- the number in
the manifest is a default, not a claim) and unifi (protocol/
device-discovery fixes the number; nothing else can find the controller).
gitea was a live one, not just a tidiness fix: its manifest said 2222:22,
but the actual adopted, running container is on 222. Harmless while held,
but the next 'take' would have recreated it on the wrong port and broken
SSH git access. Recorded 222 as novox's own setting for it (settings set
gitea -node novox) so that doesn't happen.
From the survey of every env-file secret (ADR 0086, issue 041): amqp-ping,
minio, mongodb and grafana use the _FILE twin their software honours;
mesh-catalog and model-usage read DATABASE_URL_FILE (a file the mesh
templates, mounted where only the runtime reads it); grafana's secret files
belong to its own account. Two dead deliveries removed: a line nothing read
in amqp-email-forwarder, and mailu's secret.env on four containers that
never read it. The 25 exceptions that remain carry the surveyed reason —
convertible and awaiting a bed, convertible through a generated config file,
the application's own code, or not convertible.
ADR 0086. mesh-controller mounts its six own secrets and names them with
_FILE twins, so no credential of its own reaches its environment. The 35
containers that still read a secret through an env-file carry
secrets-in-environment with the reason; converting each where its software
accepts a path is the per-module work of issue 041.
Piece A + B of ADR 0056, completing the internal-CA work in ff01ada.
Selectable issuer. acme-ca is now a role two providers can satisfy: step-ca
(internal CA) or the new public-acme (a fact-only module, no container/listen)
that serves Let's Encrypt production. A mesh assigns one or the other to satisfy
route-proxy's `requires: acme-ca`.
One directory shape for both. A provider serves the ACME directory's parts the
way the mesh already models any reachable service -- an address (`at`), a `port`
and a `path` -- and route-proxy composes `https://<at>:<port><path>`. step-ca
lets the mesh fill `at` (its node) and `port` (its single listen) and serves only
`path`; public-acme, not being a mesh service, serves all three (overriding `at`
with the public host). Same composition either way.
Empty root means the system trust store. Both providers serve `root`: step-ca
the operator root PEM (settled per mesh), public-acme an empty string. route-proxy
writes it to the CA bundle file unconditionally; the binary now reads an empty
bundle as "the root is already trusted by the OS" and falls back to system roots
(examples/route-proxy/main.go, committed on the mesh-control ADR-0056 branch).
step-ca inits from the operator's root. The operator's root cert, root key and
root-key password are mounted at the smallstep entrypoint's default init paths
(/run/secrets/root_ca.crt, root_ca_key, root_ca_key_password) with the matching
DOCKER_STEPCA_INIT_*_FILE vars, so `step ca init` adopts the operator's root
instead of self-generating one -- the CA that signs is the CA route-proxy trusts.
Route names are labels, not FQDNs. Every routed module now contributes a `label`
(the leftmost subdomain) instead of a full public hostname; the node's public
domain composes the name. Apex (novox.be) is left as a full name -- composeName
has no empty-label/apex convention yet (mesh-control follow-up).
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
The whole-mesh-novox lab validation found three modules unresolvable: a
provision-consuming module's minted login is mesh_<node>_<module>, and on novox
`mesh_novox_only_office`(22)/`_de_spiegel`(21)/`_amqp_email_forwarder`(31)
overflow the 20-char S3 access-key cap (ADR 0049). Added a short `slug` each
(office/spiegel/emailfwd → 17/18/19 chars). Also fixed mailu's roundcube image:
the pinned digest returns "manifest unknown" from ghcr; corrected to the real
:1.9 digest.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LrgweAeERJYBg88c5cKDzF
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