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mesh-catalog/modules/nats/module.json
jschoubben f118344246 Every module names its endpoints, and every route names the one it serves
75 endpoints across 50 modules, named from what each one is for rather than by a
rule: mail's seven protocol ports are smtp, imaps, submission and the rest; unifi's
nine are inform, stun, discovery, the two portal ports and syslog; minio's two are
s3 and console; the resolver's two are dns-udp and dns-tcp.

And 35 route contributions name the endpoint they serve instead of repeating its
port. A route and a listen both carried a port and nothing said they were the same
thing; now one of them does. gitea's path-level deny rule names neither, because it
is a rule about a name rather than an endpoint.

novox/hq ADR 0138. The words shipped a release ahead in mesh-controller #138 and
#139, and the control plane running today is built from that merge — checked before
this was written, because an unknown manifest key is refused and a catalogue using
one against an older control plane would stop resolving.
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{
"module": "nats",
"version": "1",
"provides": [
{
"name": "mesh-bus",
"scope": "mesh"
}
],
"claims": [
{
"name": "mesh-broker",
"scope": "mesh"
}
],
"bus-users": "/var/lib/nats-module/conf/accounts.conf",
"capabilities": [
"container-runtime"
],
"emits": [],
"consumes": [],
"listens": [
{
"name": "bus",
"port": 4222,
"protocol": "tcp",
"from": "mesh",
"why": "the mesh bus \u2014 every link the mesh has, over TLS, reached across the overlay"
}
],
"guards": [
8222
],
"resources": [
{
"id": "jetstream-data",
"type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/mesh-broker-nats",
"mode": "0700"
},
{
"id": "conf-dir",
"type": "directory",
"path": "/var/lib/nats-module/conf",
"mode": "0700"
},
{
"id": "server-conf",
"type": "file",
"path": "/var/lib/nats-module/conf/nats.conf",
"content": "# The nats module's own server settings. Declared by the module, because a port, a TLS path\n# and a store directory are properties of the container this module raises: they live in its\n# image and its mounts and change when it does.\n#\n# The mesh writes accounts.conf beside this one and nothing else. A controller that wrote the\n# whole file would have to be kept in step with a Dockerfile it never sees.\n\nport: 4222\nhttp: 127.0.0.1:8222\n\n# The mesh's own broker certificate \u2014 the one every machine already pins by fingerprint and the\n# controller already trusts (MESH_BROKER_CERTIFICATE). Serving the new bus with it means no\n# machine's pin changes when it moves, and no second certificate exists to be wrong about.\ntls {\n cert_file: \"/tls/tls.crt\"\n key_file: \"/tls/tls.key\"\n}\n\n# **No `verify`, deliberately, and it was `verify: true` until a probe ran this image.** That\n# setting makes the server demand a *client* certificate, and nothing in the mesh presents one: a\n# host pins this server's exact certificate and authenticates with the password the mesh minted\n# (novox/hq ADR 0004, design 25 \u00a74), and so does a module's runtime. With it on, every connection\n# in the mesh is refused at the TLS handshake, before any password is looked at \u2014 and the error is\n# \"client didn't provide a certificate\", which reads as a client fault.\n#\n# TLS is still required: a tls block is what makes it required, and verify only decides whether\n# client certificates are checked. What is given up is a second factor the mesh has no machinery\n# to issue or rotate \u2014 a certificate per module per node \u2014 and what is kept is stronger than a\n# name check in both directions: an exact pin outward, a per-user password inward.\n\njetstream {\n store_dir: \"/data\"\n}\n\n# Every user of the mesh, composed by the controller and rewritten whenever a module is\n# assigned, a node enrols or a person's access changes.\n#\n# **Relative, and in this same directory, because it has to be.** An absolute include path is\n# resolved relative to the including file's directory, not from the root: nats-server given\n# `include /etc/nats/accounts.conf` from /etc/nats-server/nats.conf looks for\n# /etc/nats-server/etc/nats/accounts.conf and refuses to start. Verified against the server.\ninclude accounts.conf\n",
"mode": "0644"
},
{
"id": "server",
"type": "container",
"name": "mesh-broker-nats",
"ports": [
"4222:4222",
"127.0.0.1:8222:8222"
],
"volumes": [
"/var/lib/mesh-broker-nats:/data",
"/var/lib/nats-module/conf:/etc/nats:ro",
"/var/lib/mesh-broker-tls:/tls:ro"
],
"artifact": "server"
}
],
"accesses": [
{
"path": "/var/lib/mesh-broker-tls",
"mode": "read"
}
],
"build": {
"on": [
{
"arg": "NATS_BASE",
"image": "nats@sha256:b83efabe3e7def1e0a4a31ec6e078999bb17c80363f881df35edc70fcb6bb927"
}
],
"artifacts": [
{
"name": "server",
"kind": "image",
"from": "Dockerfile"
}
]
}
}