nodered: the sidecar dials the port it was given

The sidecar runs on the host network and dialled 127.0.0.1:1880, the
software's port; the mesh publishes nodered on a machine port it assigns,
so the tools reached whatever else holds 1880, or nothing (hq 088).

modules/baserow/module.json

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "baserow",
-      "port": 80
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 80,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/bazarr/module.json

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 6767,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -110,7 +111,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "subs",
-      "port": 6767
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/bookshelf/module.json

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8787,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "books",
-      "port": 8787
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/ca-trust/module.json

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+{
+  "module": "ca-trust",
+  "version": "1",
+  "slug": "catrust",
+  "capabilities": [
+    "service-manager"
+  ],
+  "requires": [
+    "internal-acme-ca"
+  ],
+  "seats": [
+    {
+      "name": "the-mesh-trust-anchor",
+      "scope": "node"
+    }
+  ],
+  "claims": [
+    {
+      "name": "the-mesh-trust-anchor",
+      "scope": "node"
+    }
+  ],
+  "resources": [
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "anchor",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/anchor",
+      "mode": "0755",
+      "content": "#!/bin/sh\n# The mesh's internal certificate authority, trusted by this machine.\n#\n# Written by the mesh from the ca-trust module's manifest (novox/hq ADR 0147).\n# Editing it here lasts until the next apply.\n#\n# There is no prior trust to verify the fetch against \u2014 this is the thing that\n# establishes it \u2014 so it is made over the mesh's own private network, which is\n# what authenticates it (novox/hq ADR 0098, the same reasoning that lets the\n# route proxy fetch this root for itself). What comes back is checked here: a\n# body that is not a certificate is refused now, rather than believed and then\n# failed by whatever reads the trust store next.\nset -eu\n\nROOTS='https://${bound:internal-acme-ca:at}:${bound:internal-acme-ca:port}${bound:internal-acme-ca:roots}'\nANCHORS=/etc/ca-certificates/trust-source/anchors\nANCHOR=\"$ANCHORS/mesh-internal-ca.crt\"\n\n# Arch's layout, said out loud rather than assumed: a machine that keeps its\n# anchors elsewhere fails here, visibly, instead of writing a file nothing\n# reads. That failure is the signal that this belongs in the host, where one\n# operating system's difference lives (novox/hq ADR 0147, option 2).\n[ -d \"$ANCHORS\" ] || {\n\techo \"this machine keeps no trust anchors in $ANCHORS; ca-trust is written for that layout\" >&2\n\texit 1\n}\n\ncase \"${1:-}\" in\ninstall)\n\ttmp=$(mktemp)\n\ttrap 'rm -f \"$tmp\"' EXIT\n\t# The authority may still be starting, or this machine may have come up\n\t# before it: two minutes of asking, then an honest failure.\n\tn=0\n\twhile [ \"$n\" -lt 60 ]; do\n\t\tif curl --fail --silent --show-error --insecure --max-time 10 \\\n\t\t\t--output \"$tmp\" \"$ROOTS\" &&\n\t\t\tgrep -q 'BEGIN CERTIFICATE' \"$tmp\"; then\n\t\t\tinstall -m 0644 \"$tmp\" \"$ANCHOR\"\n\t\t\tupdate-ca-trust\n\t\t\texit 0\n\t\tfi\n\t\tn=$((n + 1))\n\t\tsleep 2\n\tdone\n\techo \"the authority at $ROOTS did not serve a certificate within two minutes\" >&2\n\texit 1\n\t;;\nremove)\n\t# What stopping the unit does, and therefore what being unassigned does.\n\trm -f \"$ANCHOR\"\n\tupdate-ca-trust\n\t;;\n*)\n\techo \"usage: $(basename \"$0\") install|remove\" >&2\n\texit 2\n\t;;\nesac\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "unit",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/etc/systemd/system/mesh-ca-trust.service",
+      "mode": "0644",
+      "content": "[Unit]\nDescription=The mesh's internal certificate authority, trusted by this machine\n# novox/hq ADR 0147. Starting this unit places the mesh's root among this\n# machine's trust anchors; stopping it takes the root away again, which is what\n# the host does when the module is no longer assigned here.\nWants=network-online.target\nAfter=network-online.target\n\n[Service]\nType=oneshot\nRemainAfterExit=yes\nExecStart=${dir:state}/anchor install\nExecStop=${dir:state}/anchor remove\n\n[Install]\nWantedBy=multi-user.target\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "trust",
+      "type": "service",
+      "unit": "mesh-ca-trust.service",
+      "state": "running",
+      "boot": "enabled",
+      "restart-on": [
+        "anchor",
+        "unit"
+      ]
+    }
+  ]
+}

modules/de-spiegel/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "de-spiegel",
-      "port": 35621
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 35621,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/distribution/module.json

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "registry",
       "port": 5000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/dnsmasq/module.json

@@ -22,11 +22,20 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "dns-udp",
       "port": 53,
       "protocol": "udp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "every name for this machine and what it runs \u2014 the mesh's own answered here, the rest forwarded",
       "fixed": true
+    },
+    {
+      "name": "dns-tcp",
+      "port": 53,
+      "protocol": "tcp",
+      "from": "mesh",
+      "why": "the same names over tcp, which a resolver answers on as well and is asked for whenever an answer will not fit in a datagram. Declared because the daemon serves it: a declaration that covers one of the two protocols its own service listens on leaves the other closed while everything reports success",
+      "fixed": true
     }
   ],
   "resources": [

modules/fail2ban/module.json

@@ -28,19 +28,12 @@
       "path": "/etc/fail2ban/action.d",
       "mode": "0755"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "fail2ban-local",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "/etc/fail2ban/fail2ban.local",
-      "mode": "0644",
-      "content": "[Definition]\n\n# Where fail2ban writes its own log, declared rather than assumed. The recidive jail reads\n# this file to ban whoever keeps coming back, and the logrotate file this module ships\n# rotates it -- but nothing told fail2ban to write there. Where the package default stands,\n# fail2ban logs to the journal, the recidive jail finds no log file, and the whole service\n# refuses to start, taking the sshd jail with it.\n#\n# In .local, not in fail2ban.conf: that file belongs to the package.\nlogtarget = /var/log/fail2ban.log\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "jail-local",
       "type": "file",
       "path": "/etc/fail2ban/jail.local",
       "mode": "0644",
-      "content": "[INCLUDES]\n\nbefore = paths-arch.conf\n\n[DEFAULT]\n\n# Never act on the machine itself or on a tunnel peer: the mesh's private range is\n# ${machine:mesh-range}, named here rather than written as a value the module cannot\n# know (novox/hq ADR 0112). Without this, fail2ban could ban the mesh's own nodes.\nignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 ::1 ${machine:mesh-range}\n\nbantime  = 10m\nfindtime = 10m\nmaxretry = 5\n\nbanaction = ufw\nbanaction_allports = iptables-allports\n\n[sshd]\nenabled = true\nport    = ssh\nlogpath = %(sshd_log)s\nbackend = %(sshd_backend)s\n"
+      "content": "[INCLUDES]\n\nbefore = paths-arch.conf\n\n[DEFAULT]\n\n# Never act on the machine itself or on a tunnel peer: the mesh's private range is\n# ${machine:mesh-range}, named here rather than written as a value the module cannot\n# know (novox/hq ADR 0112). Without this, fail2ban could ban the mesh's own nodes.\nignoreip = 127.0.0.1/8 ::1 ${machine:mesh-range}\n\nbantime  = 10m\nfindtime = 10m\nmaxretry = 5\n\n# Ban through iptables, not through a firewall front-end the machine may not have. ufw is\n# installed on two of this mesh's machines and absent on the other two, and fail2ban finds out\n# only at ban time: the service reports healthy, the jail counts the attempt, the ban command\n# exits 127, and nothing is blocked. Proven on 2026-09-28 -- 'ufw: command not found' on a\n# machine the mesh reported as protected.\n#\n# The action below is this module's own, already used by the recidive jail on every machine\n# here, and it bans in DOCKER-USER as well as INPUT, so a container's published port is\n# covered too.\nbanaction = iptables-allports-dualchain\nbanaction_allports = iptables-allports-dualchain\n\n[sshd]\nenabled = true\nport    = ssh\nlogpath = %(sshd_log)s\nbackend = %(sshd_backend)s\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "jail-sshd",
@@ -49,6 +42,14 @@
       "mode": "0644",
       "content": "[sshd]\nenabled = true\nport    = ssh\nlogpath = %(sshd_log)s\nbackend = %(sshd_backend)s\nmaxretry = 5\n"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "log",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "/var/log/fail2ban.log",
+      "mode": "0640",
+      "create-once": true,
+      "content": ""
+    },
     {
       "id": "jail-recidive",
       "type": "file",

modules/gitea/module.json

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "route": {
       "web": {
         "label": "git",
-        "port": 3000
+        "endpoint": "web"
       },
       "internal-api-refused": {
         "label": "git",
@@ -44,12 +44,14 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 3000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the forge, over http"
     },
     {
+      "name": "ssh",
       "port": 22,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/grafana/module.json

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 3000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -96,7 +97,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "grafana",
-      "port": 3000
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/hello-web/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "hello",
-      "port": 8080
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/home-assistant/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8123,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "home-assistant",
-      "port": 8123
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/icecast/module.json

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "stream",
       "port": 8000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/influxdb/module.json

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "api",
       "port": 8086,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/invoicing/module.json

@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@
     "route": {
       "site": {
         "label": "invoicing",
-        "port": 80
+        "endpoint": "web"
       },
       "api": {
         "label": "invoicing-api",
-        "port": 9000
+        "endpoint": "api"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -36,12 +36,14 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 80,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the invoicing web frontend; a public name is a route grant later"
     },
     {
+      "name": "api",
       "port": 9000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/jackett/module.json

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 9117,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -82,7 +83,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "indexers",
-      "port": 9117
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/keycloak/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "keycloak",
-      "port": 8080
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/letta/module.json

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8283,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/lidarr/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8686,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "lidarr",
-      "port": 8686
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/mailu/module.json

@@ -16,27 +16,27 @@
     "route": {
       "web": {
         "label": "mail",
-        "port": 7443,
+        "endpoint": "web-tls",
         "scheme": "https",
         "insecure": true
       },
       "acme": {
         "label": "mail",
         "path": "/.well-known/acme-challenge",
-        "port": 7080,
+        "endpoint": "web",
         "priority": 100
       },
       "autoconfig": {
         "label": "autoconfig",
-        "port": 4243
+        "endpoint": "autoconfig"
       },
       "autodiscover": {
         "label": "autodiscover",
-        "port": 4243
+        "endpoint": "autoconfig"
       },
       "automx": {
         "label": "automx",
-        "port": 4243
+        "endpoint": "autoconfig"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "smtp",
       "port": 25,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -67,6 +68,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "pop3",
       "port": 110,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -74,6 +76,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "imap",
       "port": 143,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -81,6 +84,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "smtps",
       "port": 465,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -88,6 +92,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "submission",
       "port": 587,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -95,6 +100,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "imaps",
       "port": 993,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -102,6 +108,7 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "pop3s",
       "port": 995,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -109,18 +116,21 @@
       "fixed": true
     },
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 7080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the web front over http; only the ACME HTTP-01 passthrough is routed here \u2014 everything else 301s to https and would loop a proxy"
     },
     {
+      "name": "web-tls",
       "port": 7443,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the web front over its own TLS (admin, webmail, API); the public name mail.novox.be is a route grant reaching it here"
     },
     {
+      "name": "autoconfig",
       "port": 4243,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/marrytts/module.json

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "api",
       "port": 59125,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/minio/module.json

@@ -14,11 +14,11 @@
     "route": {
       "api": {
         "label": "files-api",
-        "port": 9000
+        "endpoint": "s3"
       },
       "console": {
         "label": "files",
-        "port": 9001
+        "endpoint": "console"
       }
     }
   },
@@ -31,12 +31,14 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "s3",
       "port": 9000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the S3 endpoint"
     },
     {
+      "name": "console",
       "port": 9001,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/mongodb/module.json

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "database",
       "port": 27017,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/mosquitto/module.json

@@ -34,12 +34,14 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "mqtt",
       "port": 1883,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "modules on any machine that were granted a topic namespace"
     },
     {
+      "name": "mqtt-websockets",
       "port": 8081,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/mssql/module.json

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "database",
       "port": 4848,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/n8n/module.json

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "n8n",
-      "port": 5682
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 5682,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/nats/module.json

@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
   "consumes": [],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "bus",
       "port": 4222,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/nextcloud/module.json

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "drive",
-      "port": 80
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 80,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/nodered/client.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 //
 // Node-RED exposes a runtime admin API under its base URL: GET/POST /flows for the whole flow
 // configuration, GET /nodes for installed node modules. A default install has no auth; when
-// adminAuth is on, a bearer token (minted at /auth/token) is required.
+// adminAuth is on, a bearer token is required — the module's settings accept the mesh-minted
+// api-token, which the runtime config file carries as `token`.
 
 import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 
@@ -88,8 +89,13 @@ export class NodeRedClient {
   async deployFlows(config: any[], type = "full"): Promise<{ rev?: string; nodeCount: number }> {
     const body = await this.req("/flows", {
       method: "POST",
-      headers: this.headers({ "Content-Type": "application/json", "Node-RED-Deployment-Type": type }),
-      body: JSON.stringify(config),
+      // v2 answers { rev }; v1 answers 204 with no body, which req() cannot parse.
+      headers: this.headers({
+        "Content-Type": "application/json",
+        "Node-RED-API-Version": "v2",
+        "Node-RED-Deployment-Type": type,
+      }),
+      body: JSON.stringify({ flows: config }),
     });
     return { rev: body?.rev, nodeCount: config.length };
   }

modules/nodered/module.json

@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
     "flows.deployed"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
+    "admin": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/admin",
+    "api-token": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/api-token",
     "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/broker"
   },
   "capabilities": [
@@ -12,6 +14,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 1880,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -25,26 +28,58 @@
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered",
       "mode": "0700"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "state",
+      "type": "directory",
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
+    },
     {
       "id": "data",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/services/nodered/data",
       "mode": "0700",
       "owner": "1000:1000"
     },
+    {
+      "id": "settings-code",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.js",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "1000:1000",
+      "content": "// Node-RED's settings, written by the mesh from the nodered module. What an assignment may change\n// is settings.json beside this file (merged key by key); the credentials are the mesh's secrets and\n// reach Node-RED only through this file. The flows' own credentials stay encrypted in the user\n// directory under the key Node-RED keeps there (.config.runtime.json), which is data, not this.\nconst fs = require(\"fs\");\nconst path = require(\"path\");\nconst crypto = require(\"crypto\");\n\nconst ADMIN_PASSWORD = \"${secret:admin}\";\nconst API_TOKEN = \"${secret:api-token}\";\nconst ADMIN = { username: \"admin\", permissions: \"*\" };\n\nconst settings = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(__dirname, \"settings.json\"), \"utf8\"));\n// The mesh's keys, not Node-RED's: endpoints lands in every merged file; timeZone is the\n// assignment's way to set the zone flows schedule and format in.\nif (settings.timeZone) process.env.TZ = settings.timeZone;\ndelete settings.timeZone;\ndelete settings.endpoints;\n\nfunction same(a, b) {\n  const x = crypto.createHash(\"sha256\").update(String(a)).digest();\n  const y = crypto.createHash(\"sha256\").update(String(b)).digest();\n  return crypto.timingSafeEqual(x, y);\n}\n\n// The admin secret is a password, or, accepted from an existing install, the bcrypt hash its\n// settings held, so the password people already use keeps working.\nfunction passwordMatches(given) {\n  if (/^\\$2[aby]\\$\\d\\d\\$/.test(ADMIN_PASSWORD)) return require(\"bcryptjs\").compare(String(given), ADMIN_PASSWORD);\n  return Promise.resolve(same(given, ADMIN_PASSWORD));\n}\n\nmodule.exports = Object.assign(settings, {\n  uiPort: 1880,\n  adminAuth: {\n    type: \"credentials\",\n    users: (username) => Promise.resolve(username === ADMIN.username ? ADMIN : null),\n    authenticate: (username, password) =>\n      username === ADMIN.username\n        ? passwordMatches(password).then((ok) => (ok ? ADMIN : null))\n        : Promise.resolve(null),\n    // The module's own tools call the admin API with this bearer token.\n    tokens: (token) => Promise.resolve(same(token, API_TOKEN) ? { username: \"mesh\", permissions: \"*\" } : null),\n  },\n});\n"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "settings",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.json",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "owner": "1000:1000",
+      "merge": "json",
+      "content": "{\n  \"flowFile\": \"flows.json\",\n  \"flowFilePretty\": true,\n  \"diagnostics\": { \"enabled\": true, \"ui\": true },\n  \"runtimeState\": { \"enabled\": false, \"ui\": false },\n  \"logging\": { \"console\": { \"level\": \"info\", \"metrics\": false, \"audit\": false } },\n  \"exportGlobalContextKeys\": false,\n  \"externalModules\": {},\n  \"editorTheme\": { \"projects\": { \"enabled\": false } },\n  \"functionExternalModules\": true,\n  \"debugMaxLength\": 1000,\n  \"mqttReconnectTime\": 15000,\n  \"serialReconnectTime\": 15000\n}\n"
+    },
     {
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "nodered",
-      "image": "nodered/node-red@sha256:02a2b92a41b73d2bc388238b86e4fcaab7fb5466373adb24e1df6aa5845265ff",
+      "image": "nodered/node-red@sha256:a649dd711d55490151a2c39a8e48ad0c44325488fbc0e66315f2d2e19e5e1ace",
       "env": {
         "TZ": "Etc/UTC"
       },
       "ports": [
         "1880"
       ],
+      "args": [
+        "--settings",
+        "/config/settings.js"
+      ],
       "volumes": [
-        "/services/nodered/data:/data"
+        "${dir:data}:/data",
+        "${dir:state}/settings.js:/config/settings.js:ro",
+        "${dir:state}/settings.json:/config/settings.json:ro"
+      ],
+      "restart-on": [
+        "settings-code",
+        "settings"
       ]
     },
     {
@@ -52,8 +87,7 @@
       "type": "file",
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/config.json",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "{}\n",
-      "merge": "json"
+      "content": "{\n  \"token\": \"${secret:api-token}\"\n}\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "runtime",
@@ -66,7 +100,7 @@
       ],
       "env": {
         "MESH_BROKER_FILE": "/run/secrets/broker",
-        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:1880",
+        "MESH_NODERED_URL": "http://127.0.0.1:${port:1880}",
         "MESH_NODERED_CONFIG_FILE": "/run/config/config.json"
       },
       "restart-on": [
@@ -81,11 +115,11 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "nodered",
-      "port": 1880
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "route": "/var/lib/mesh/nodered/route.json"
+    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json"
   },
   "build": {
     "on": [

modules/novox.be/module.json

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "@",
-      "port": 4000
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 4000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/nzbget/module.json

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 6789,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/ollama/module.json

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "api",
       "port": 11434,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "machine",

modules/ombi/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 3579,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -89,7 +90,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "ombi",
-      "port": 3579
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/only-office/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "office",
-      "port": 9070
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 9070,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/photos-eef/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "eef",
-      "port": 4012
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 4012,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/photos-filip/module.json

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "filip",
-      "port": 4013
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 4013,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/photos/module.json

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "photos",
-      "port": 4001
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -32,12 +32,14 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "api",
       "port": 9000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the photos backend API; the client sites on the module network call it"
     },
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 4001,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/plex/module.json

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "stream",
       "port": 32400,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/portainer/module.json

@@ -7,12 +7,14 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 9090,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the dashboard over http; portainer.novox.be is a route grant and the proxy reaches it here \u2014 the machine side of 9090:9000, the predecessor's number"
     },
     {
+      "name": "web-tls",
       "port": 9443,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "portainer",
-      "port": 9090
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/postgres/module.json

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "database",
       "port": 5432,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/qbittorrent/module.json

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/radarr/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 7878,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -86,7 +87,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "movies",
-      "port": 7878
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/redis/module.json

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "cache",
       "port": 6379,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/route-proxy/module.json

@@ -27,12 +27,14 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "http",
       "port": 80,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
       "why": "public HTTP, and the ACME HTTP-01 challenge answered at the name being certified"
     },
     {
+      "name": "https",
       "port": 443,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",

modules/searxng/module.json

@@ -5,11 +5,12 @@
     "container-runtime"
   ],
   "own-secrets": {
-    "secret": "/var/lib/searxng-module/secret.secret",
+    "secret": "/var/lib/mesh/searxng/secret",
     "broker": "/var/lib/mesh/searxng/broker"
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -26,22 +27,14 @@
     {
       "id": "state",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/var/lib/searxng-module",
-      "mode": "0700"
+      "mode": "0700",
+      "place": "."
     },
     {
       "id": "valkey-data",
       "type": "directory",
-      "path": "/var/lib/searxng-module/valkey-data",
       "mode": "0700"
     },
-    {
-      "id": "server-env",
-      "type": "file",
-      "path": "/var/lib/searxng-module/server.env",
-      "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "SEARXNG_SECRET=${secret:secret}\nSEARXNG_VALKEY_URL=valkey://valkey:6379/0\n"
-    },
     {
       "id": "net",
       "type": "network",
@@ -62,30 +55,39 @@
         "warning"
       ],
       "volumes": [
-        "/var/lib/searxng-module/valkey-data:/data"
+        "${dir:valkey-data}:/data"
       ]
     },
+    {
+      "id": "settings",
+      "type": "file",
+      "path": "${dir:state}/settings.yml",
+      "mode": "0600",
+      "merge": "json",
+      "content": "{\n  \"use_default_settings\": true,\n  \"server\": {\n    \"secret_key\": \"${secret:secret}\",\n    \"base_url\": false,\n    \"limiter\": false,\n    \"image_proxy\": false,\n    \"public_instance\": false\n  },\n  \"search\": {\n    \"formats\": [\"html\", \"json\"]\n  },\n  \"valkey\": {\n    \"url\": \"valkey://valkey:6379/0\"\n  }\n}\n"
+    },
     {
       "id": "server",
       "type": "container",
       "name": "searxng",
-      "image": "searxng/searxng@sha256:c7cc75852051bf6254afda6ed1b920dd1677d8efe4ab141bf558f02e582f4371",
+      "image": "searxng/searxng@sha256:cd8812607ab73730a0b1a0dc4990223fe1b9e383f6f35947114d0bef7f8bb441",
       "network": "searxng",
-      "env-file": [
-        "/var/lib/searxng-module/server.env"
-      ],
       "ports": [
         "8080"
       ],
-      "secrets-in-environment": "SEARXNG_SECRET is env-only, but settings.yml carries server.secret_key; convertible by mounting a generated settings.yml, not yet done"
+      "volumes": [
+        "${dir:state}/settings.yml:/etc/searxng/settings.yml:ro"
+      ],
+      "restart-on": [
+        "settings"
+      ]
     },
     {
       "id": "runtime-config",
       "type": "file",
       "path": "/var/lib/mesh/searxng/config.json",
       "mode": "0600",
-      "content": "{}\n",
-      "merge": "json"
+      "content": "{}\n"
     },
     {
       "id": "runtime",
@@ -113,11 +115,11 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "searxng",
-      "port": 8080
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
-    "route": "/var/lib/searxng-module/route.json"
+    "route": "${dir:state}/route.json"
   },
   "build": {
     "on": [

modules/showcase/module.json

@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/sonarr/module.json

@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8989,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "series",
-      "port": 8989
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/sshd/module.json

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "ssh",
       "port": 22,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "anywhere",
@@ -31,6 +32,7 @@
       "type": "service",
       "unit": "sshd.service",
       "state": "running",
+      "boot": "enabled",
       "restart-on": [
         "config"
       ]

modules/step-ca/module.json

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "acme",
       "port": 9000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",

modules/tautulli/module.json

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8181,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
@@ -85,7 +86,7 @@
   "contributes": {
     "route": {
       "label": "tautulli",
-      "port": 8181
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {

modules/umami/module.json

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     },
     "route": {
       "label": "umami",
-      "port": 3000
+      "endpoint": "web"
     }
   },
   "binds": {
@@ -49,10 +49,11 @@
   },
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 3000,
       "protocol": "tcp",
-      "from": "anywhere",
-      "why": "one port serves two surfaces: the dashboard (the proxy gates it to the mesh) and the public collection endpoint that the browsers of every tracked site POST to \u2014 so the port itself must be reachable from anywhere"
+      "from": "mesh",
+      "why": "one port serves two surfaces \u2014 the dashboard and the collection endpoint that the browsers of every tracked site POST to. Both are reached through the proxy, by name, so the port is how the proxy reaches this module and nothing else (novox/hq ADR 0045). It said \"anywhere\" and gave the reason that the collection endpoint must be public, which is true of the name and not of the port: opened, the machine-side port served the dashboard over plain HTTP to the internet, bypassing every rule the proxy applies by path"
     }
   ],
   "resources": [

modules/unifi/module.json

@@ -6,54 +6,63 @@
   ],
   "listens": [
     {
+      "name": "web",
       "port": 8443,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the controller web UI, over its own self-signed tls; reaching it from outside is a route grant later"
     },
     {
+      "name": "inform",
       "port": 8080,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "device inform \u2014 how APs and switches check in and are adopted"
     },
     {
+      "name": "stun",
       "port": 3478,
       "protocol": "udp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "STUN, so managed devices can find the controller through NAT"
     },
     {
+      "name": "discovery",
       "port": 10001,
       "protocol": "udp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "device discovery \u2014 the controller finds unadopted devices on the network"
     },
     {
+      "name": "discovery-l2",
       "port": 1902,
       "protocol": "udp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "layer-2 (UBNT) discovery broadcasts; published on 1902, the container listens on 1900"
     },
     {
+      "name": "portal-tls",
       "port": 8843,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the guest captive portal over https"
     },
     {
+      "name": "portal",
       "port": 8880,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "the guest captive portal over http"
     },
     {
+      "name": "speedtest",
       "port": 6789,
       "protocol": "tcp",
       "from": "mesh",
       "why": "mobile-app speed-test throughput measurement"
     },
     {
+      "name": "syslog",
       "port": 5514,
       "protocol": "udp",
       "from": "mesh",