Run the controller as a Go bundle the host starts as a process (hq issue 213)

The controller is a Go program and was the one piece of the mesh's own Go
code still shipped and run as an image (novox/hq issue 213; ADR 0188 §1:
a module's own code is bundles; §3: a service bundle is a process).

The manifest now builds one Go bundle, `controller`, and runs it as the
process `mesh-controller` (`./mesh-controller serve`) under an account
the module declares. What the container gave it, replaced:

- host network: a process is on the host's network; nothing it reads
  names a container network
- user 65534: the account `mesh-controller`, which owns its secrets and
  its state directory
- the eight mounts: the env names the host paths the mesh already places
  (the store, broker and bus files under the state directory, the
  broker's certificate under /var/lib/mesh-broker-tls); the `broker`
  mount was read by nothing and is gone with the others
- `container-runtime` is no longer required on its machine

Its preparation is the same binary with `prepare`, as a run-once process,
and the process `replaces` the container `server`: the host keeps the
container answering until the process is running (mesh-host). Needs the
previous commit live in the running controller, and the host's
`replaces` on the controller's machine, before it is registered.

No image is built by the mesh any more. The Dockerfile stays for genesis
and the lab (`make image`, its Go base now pinned in the Makefile).
This commit is contained in:
jochen
2026-10-04 01:45:25 +02:00
parent d2d171f2d2
commit c23be73d4d
8 changed files with 196 additions and 59 deletions
+10 -9
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@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
}
// The manifest itself names them now; withSeatPorts is a no-op on it, and this holds it so.
for _, r := range m.Resources {
if r["type"] != "container" {
if r["type"] != "process" {
continue
}
env, _ := r["env"].(map[string]any)
@@ -113,8 +113,9 @@ func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
}
m = withSeatPorts(m)
control, err := m.Resolve([]Built{{
Name: "server", Kind: ArtifactImage,
Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "mesh-controller/server@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("c", 64),
Name: "controller", Kind: ArtifactBundle,
Reference: ArtifactStoreScheme + "mesh-controller/controller@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("c", 64),
Digest: "sha256:" + strings.Repeat("c", 64),
}})
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
@@ -135,9 +136,9 @@ func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the control plane does not compose: %v", err)
}
server := fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.server")
server := fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.controller")
if server == nil {
t.Fatalf("the control plane's container is not in the declaration: %v", out)
t.Fatalf("the control plane's process is not in the declaration: %v", out)
}
env, _ := server["env"].(map[string]any)
for key, want := range map[string]string{
@@ -151,8 +152,8 @@ func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
t.Errorf("the control plane is told %s=%v; the node put it on %s", key, env[key], want)
}
}
if got := server["image"]; got != "anchor.internal:5100/mesh-controller/server@sha256:"+strings.Repeat("c", 64) {
t.Errorf("the control plane's own image is %v, not routed through the store", got)
if got := server["source"]; got != "anchor.internal:5100/mesh-controller/controller@sha256:"+strings.Repeat("c", 64) {
t.Errorf("the control plane's own bundle is fetched from %v, not routed through the store", got)
}
// And on a mesh where the foundation is where genesis raised it, nothing is added.
@@ -160,7 +161,7 @@ func TestTheControlPlanesOwnAddressesFollowTheNodesPorts(t *testing.T) {
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
env, _ = fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.server")["env"].(map[string]any)
env, _ = fileNamed(out, "mesh-controller.controller")["env"].(map[string]any)
if env["MESH_STORE_INVENTORY_PORT"] != "" {
t.Errorf("with no settings, the control plane is told %v", env)
}
@@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ func withSeatPorts(m Manifest) Manifest {
out := m
out.Resources = nil
for _, r := range m.Resources {
if r["type"] != "container" {
if r["type"] != "container" && r["type"] != "process" {
out.Resources = append(out.Resources, r)
continue
}