Merge pull request 'The move mints every credential and tells each machine its membership' (#95) from feat/the-move-mints-and-delivers into main

This commit was merged in pull request #95.
This commit is contained in:
2026-09-27 22:30:58 +00:00
9 changed files with 301 additions and 11 deletions
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@@ -614,6 +614,15 @@ func issueOnTheNewBus(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue
if err != nil {
return err
}
return issueWith(ctx, inv, m, node, busAddress, known, reachable, user, password)
}
// issueWith is the delivery half: the minted password sealed to the machine as the module's broker
// secret, and the module's consumer created where the bus can be reached. Split from the minting
// so the move can issue every module against a bus whose address it worked out itself
// (`rollout mint`, design 28 task 5.2) rather than the one in this process's environment.
func issueWith(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue.Manifest,
node, busAddress string, known broker.Broker, reachable, user, password string) error {
held, err := json.Marshal(struct {
URL string `json:"url"`
Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
@@ -639,6 +648,10 @@ func issueOnTheNewBus(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue
Kind: broker.KindModule, Node: node, Module: m.Module,
Emits: m.Emits, Consumes: m.Consumes, Serves: m.Tools,
}); needed {
if busAddress == "" {
fmt.Printf(" %s consumes; its consumer is created when the bus is reachable (`push`, then "+
"`rollout mint` again is harmless)\n", m.Module)
} else {
js, err := broker.Dial(busAddress)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("the credential is minted and the mesh cannot reach the bus to create "+
@@ -649,6 +662,7 @@ func issueOnTheNewBus(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, m catalogue
return err
}
}
}
fmt.Printf("bus user %s minted for %s, scoped to what it emits and consumes\n", user, m.Module)
fmt.Printf(" sealed to %s. It arrives with the next push — `push %s` to send it\n", node, node)
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@@ -636,7 +636,12 @@ func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
if err != nil {
return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
}
memberships, err := inv.BusMemberships(ctx)
if err != nil {
return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
}
return catalogue.Rendering{
BusMembership: memberships[node],
Settings: settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
Machines: machines,
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package main
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"strings"
@@ -12,6 +13,7 @@ import (
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/secrets"
)
// Moving the mesh's own traffic to the bus being built (novox/hq ADR 0116 step 5).
@@ -31,12 +33,14 @@ import (
// ability to change things, not the services its modules are serving — measured on 2026-09-27, when
// a seat emptied mid-change and the control plane looped for two hours while every service stayed up.
const rolloutUsage = "rollout check | rollout --confirm"
const rolloutUsage = "rollout check | rollout mint | rollout --confirm"
func rolloutCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
switch {
case len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "check":
return rolloutCheck(ctx)
case len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "mint":
return rolloutMint(ctx)
case len(args) == 1 && args[0] == "--confirm":
return errors.New(
"the rollout itself is not built yet: `rollout check` answers whether it could run, and " +
@@ -190,3 +194,161 @@ func wasSentTheUserList(ctx context.Context, inv *inventory.Inventory, node stri
// notReadyOf is the readiness reasoning, named here so a test can reach it without the command's
// printing. The reasoning itself is the broker package's, where it is pure.
func notReadyOf(state broker.Readiness) []string { return broker.NotReady(state) }
// rolloutMint gives every principal the new bus will have a credential it does not yet have, and
// puts each where its owner reads it (novox/hq design 28, task 5.2): a machine's as a membership
// sealed into its declaration, a module's as its broker secret, the control plane's own as its
// `bus` secret. Idempotent: what already has a hash is left alone, so running it again is harmless.
//
// **Before anything moves, and it is what makes moving possible.** A machine moved without a
// credential cannot come back, and afterwards there is no bus to tell it anything over — which is
// why `rollout check` refuses until this has run. The bus's address is worked out here, from where
// the module that provides it is assigned, rather than read from this process's environment: this
// process is still on the old bus when this runs, and must be.
func rolloutMint(ctx context.Context) error {
open, err := openStores(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer open.Close()
inv := open.inventory
known, err := broker.FromEnvironment()
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("the bus's certificate is not known to this process, and every membership "+
"must carry its fingerprint: %w", err)
}
shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
entries, err := inv.Catalogued(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
var busNode, controllerNode string
for _, e := range entries {
switch {
case e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat("mesh-broker") && providesBus(e.Manifest) && len(e.On) > 0:
busNode = e.On[0]
case e.Manifest.Module == "mesh-controller" && len(e.On) > 0:
controllerNode = e.On[0]
}
}
if busNode == "" {
return errors.New("no assigned module provides mesh-bus and claims mesh-broker, so there is no " +
"bus to mint credentials for — register and assign it first")
}
onNetwork, err := whereEveryoneIs(ctx, inv, shelf)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if onNetwork[busNode] == "" {
return fmt.Errorf("%s runs the new bus and has no address on the private network, so no machine "+
"could be told where it is", busNode)
}
busAddress := onNetwork[busNode] + ":4222"
records, err := inv.BusRecords(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
users, err := broker.Users(records)
if err != nil {
return err
}
kept, err := inv.BusUsers(ctx)
if err != nil {
return err
}
hashes := make(map[string]string, len(kept))
for name, u := range kept {
hashes[name] = u.PasswordHash
}
_, missing := broker.WithPasswords(users, hashes)
wanted := map[string]bool{}
for _, m := range missing {
wanted[m] = true
}
var machines, modules, skipped int
for _, p := range users {
if !wanted[p.Username()] {
continue
}
switch p.Kind {
case broker.KindController:
if controllerNode == "" {
return errors.New("the control plane is not assigned anywhere, so its credential has nowhere to go")
}
password, err := inv.MintBusPassword(ctx, inventory.BusUser{Username: p.Username(), Kind: inventory.BusController})
if err != nil {
return err
}
url := "nats://" + p.Username() + ":" + password + "@" + busAddress
if err := inv.AcceptSecretForModule(ctx, controllerNode, "mesh-controller", "bus", url); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("the control plane's credential is minted and could not be sealed to %s: %w", controllerNode, err)
}
fmt.Printf("control plane: credential minted, sealed to %s as its `bus` secret\n", controllerNode)
case broker.KindNode:
password, err := inv.MintBusPassword(ctx, inventory.BusUser{Username: p.Username(), Kind: inventory.BusNode, Node: p.Node})
if err != nil {
return err
}
membership, _ := json.Marshal(map[string]string{
"broker": busAddress, "fingerprint": known.Fingerprint, "password": password, "transport": "nats",
})
key, err := inv.SealingKeyOf(ctx, p.Node)
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("%s has no sealing key, so its membership cannot be sealed to it: %w", p.Node, err)
}
sealed, err := secrets.Seal(key, membership)
if err != nil {
return err
}
if err := inv.PutBusMembership(ctx, p.Node, sealed); err != nil {
return err
}
machines++
case broker.KindModule:
m, inShelf := shelf[p.Module]
if !inShelf {
skipped++
continue
}
if _, reads := m.OwnSecrets["broker"]; !reads {
fmt.Printf(" %s on %s speaks on the bus but declares no `broker` secret to receive a credential in; skipped\n", p.Module, p.Node)
skipped++
continue
}
password, err := inv.MintBusPassword(ctx, inventory.BusUser{Username: p.Username(), Kind: inventory.BusModule, Node: p.Node, Module: p.Module})
if err != nil {
return err
}
if err := issueWith(ctx, inv, m, p.Node, "", known, busAddress, p.Username(), password); err != nil {
return err
}
modules++
default:
skipped++
}
}
fmt.Printf("minted for %d machine(s) and %d module runtime(s); %d skipped; the bus is at %s\n",
machines, modules, skipped, busAddress)
fmt.Println(" each machine's membership and each module's credential arrive with the next push of its machine;")
fmt.Println(" push the machine running the bus first, so the bus stands with its user list before anything dials it")
return nil
}
// providesBus is whether a manifest provides the mesh's bus.
func providesBus(m catalogue.Manifest) bool {
for _, o := range m.Provides {
if o.Name == "mesh-bus" {
return true
}
}
return false
}
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@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ type Rendering struct {
// **Only the users, never the server's own settings**: those are the module's, in its image and
// its mounts (Manifest.BusUsers).
BusUsers string
// BusMembership is this machine's membership for the bus the mesh is moving to, sealed to it
// (design 28, task 5.2). Empty for a machine not being moved. Written as a file the host reads
// after the declaration has applied, so the bus it names is standing before the machine leaves
// the one it is on.
BusMembership string
// MeshRange is the private network's CIDR (the range node addresses are allocated from), for a
// module that must name the whole mesh rather than one machine — an intrusion filter that must
@@ -238,9 +243,23 @@ func (r Resolution) Compose(with Rendering) (Composed, error) {
if err != nil {
return Composed{}, err
}
if with.BusMembership != "" {
// The machine's own, not any module's: how it reaches the mesh from now on. Sealed like a
// secret and placed where the host looks for exactly this (design 28, task 5.2).
resources = append(resources, map[string]any{
"id": BusMembershipID(), "type": "file", "path": BusMembershipPath,
"sealed": with.BusMembership, "mode": "0600",
})
}
return Composed{Resources: resources, Owner: owner}, nil
}
// BusMembershipID names the resource carrying a machine's membership for the new bus, and
// BusMembershipPath is where the host reads it — the same constant on both sides.
func BusMembershipID() string { return "bus-membership" }
const BusMembershipPath = "/var/lib/mesh/membership-next.json"
func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[string]any, error) {
// Every manifest is placed first (novox/hq ADR 0112): the maps naming where its bindings,
// credentials and contributions land are resolved against this node's directories, so every
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@@ -114,3 +114,32 @@ func TestCanHoldJudgesClaimScopeAndWhatTheSeatDelivers(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("with the row saying amqp, an amqp provider was refused: %v", err)
}
}
// A machine being moved is handed its membership for the new bus as a sealed file in its own
// declaration — the machine's, not any module's (design 28, task 5.2).
func TestAMembershipForTheNewBusIsComposedAsASealedFile(t *testing.T) {
r := Resolution{Node: "anchor"}
got, err := r.Compose(Rendering{BusMembership: "sealed-blob"})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
var found map[string]any
for _, res := range got.Resources {
if res["id"] == BusMembershipID() {
found = res
}
}
if found == nil {
t.Fatalf("no membership resource in %v", got.Resources)
}
if found["path"] != BusMembershipPath || found["sealed"] != "sealed-blob" || found["mode"] != "0600" {
t.Fatalf("the membership is not a sealed 0600 file where the host reads it: %v", found)
}
// And a machine not being moved is handed nothing.
got, _ = r.Compose(Rendering{})
for _, res := range got.Resources {
if res["id"] == BusMembershipID() {
t.Fatal("a machine with no membership on record was handed one")
}
}
}
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@@ -230,3 +230,35 @@ func (i *Inventory) ForgetPerson(ctx context.Context, name string) error {
}
return i.ForgetBusUser(ctx, "person."+name)
}
// PutBusMembership records a machine's membership for the new bus, sealed to it (design 28, 5.2).
// Replaces any earlier one: a machine has one membership per bus, and re-minting is re-telling.
func (i *Inventory) PutBusMembership(ctx context.Context, nodeName, sealed string) error {
node, err := i.NodeByName(ctx, nodeName)
if err != nil {
return err
}
_, err = i.store.Pool().Exec(ctx,
`insert into bus_membership (node, sealed) values ($1, $2)
on conflict (node) do update set sealed = excluded.sealed, since = now()`, node.ID, sealed)
return err
}
// BusMemberships is every machine's sealed membership for the new bus, by node name.
func (i *Inventory) BusMemberships(ctx context.Context) (map[string]string, error) {
rows, err := i.store.Pool().Query(ctx,
`select n.name, b.sealed from bus_membership b join node n on n.id = b.node`)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
defer rows.Close()
out := map[string]string{}
for rows.Next() {
var name, sealed string
if err := rows.Scan(&name, &sealed); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
out[name] = sealed
}
return out, rows.Err()
}
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@@ -80,3 +80,20 @@ func TestUnassigningTheHolderTakesTheHoldingWithIt(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatalf("the holding outlived the assignment it pointed at: %+v", held)
}
}
func TestAMachinesMembershipIsOneRowReplacedAndGoesWithTheMachine(t *testing.T) {
inv, ctx := twoBrokersOnTwoNodes(t)
if err := inv.PutBusMembership(ctx, "anchor", "first"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if err := inv.PutBusMembership(ctx, "anchor", "second"); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
got, err := inv.BusMemberships(ctx)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if got["anchor"] != "second" || len(got) != 1 {
t.Fatalf("a re-told membership did not replace the first: %v", got)
}
}
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
-- A machine already enrolled is moved to the new bus by being told its membership for it
-- (novox/hq design 28, task 5.2). Until this, a membership — bus address, fingerprint, password,
-- transport — existed only in the enrolment reply, and nothing could hand one to a machine that
-- had already joined. The row is the membership sealed to that machine, composed into its
-- declaration as a file it reads after applying; the plaintext exists once, at minting, and then
-- only on the machine. One per node: the mesh moves to one bus.
create table bus_membership (
node uuid primary key references node(id) on delete cascade,
sealed text not null,
since timestamptz not null default now()
);
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@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@
"licences": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/licences",
"broker": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/broker",
"broker-management": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/broker-management",
"broker-address": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/broker-address"
"broker-address": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/broker-address",
"bus": "/var/lib/mesh/mesh-controller/bus"
},
"secrets-owner": "65534:65534",
"resources": [