The trust module renders the authority it was bound to

novox/hq ADR 0147. ca-trust carries a script and a unit; the one thing
neither can state is where the authority is, because that is a fact about
the mesh. This checks the rendering — the script fetches from the bound
address and is executable, and the unit runs it both ways, install and
remove. The verification itself is the lab's.
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package catalogue
import (
"os"
"strings"
"testing"
)
// **A machine trusts the mesh's authority because a module put its root there** (novox/hq ADR
// 0147, issue 129). The module carries a shell script and a unit, and both are worthless unless
// the mesh fills in where the authority is — which is the one thing about it the manifest cannot
// state, because the authority's address is a fact about the mesh and not about the module.
//
// So what is checked here is the rendering, not the parsing: the script the machine will run
// names the authority it was bound to, and the unit runs that script both ways. The verification
// itself — a plain client trusting an internal name on a machine holding this, and failing on one
// that does not — is the lab's, and cannot be had here.
func TestCaTrustRendersTheAuthorityItWasBoundTo(t *testing.T) {
raw, err := os.ReadFile("../../../mesh-catalog/modules/ca-trust/module.json")
if err != nil {
t.Skipf("the catalogue is not beside this checkout: %v", err)
}
m, err := ParseManifest(raw)
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the trust module does not parse:\n%v", err)
}
r := Resolution{
Node: "workstation",
Modules: []Manifest{m},
Needs: []Needed{{
Name: "internal-acme-ca", From: "anchor", At: "anchor.internal", For: "ca-trust",
Serves: map[string]any{
"port": float64(9000), "path": "/acme/acme/directory", "roots": "/roots.pem",
},
}},
}
out, err := r.Declaration(Rendering{})
if err != nil {
t.Fatalf("the trust module could not be composed for a machine: %v", err)
}
script := fileNamed(out, "ca-trust.anchor")
if script == nil {
t.Fatalf("nothing writes the script the unit runs: %v", out)
}
body, _ := script["content"].(string)
if !strings.Contains(body, "https://anchor.internal:9000/roots.pem") {
t.Errorf("the script does not fetch from the authority it was bound to:\n%s", body)
}
if script["mode"] != "0755" {
t.Errorf("the script is written %v, which systemd cannot execute", script["mode"])
}
unit := fileNamed(out, "ca-trust.unit")
if unit == nil {
t.Fatalf("no unit: %v", out)
}
text, _ := unit["content"].(string)
// Both halves. A unit that only installs the anchor leaves a machine trusting an authority
// nobody assigned it to any more, which is the half issue 129 asked for by name.
for _, want := range []string{
"ExecStart=" + script["path"].(string) + " install",
"ExecStop=" + script["path"].(string) + " remove",
"RemainAfterExit=yes",
} {
if !strings.Contains(text, want) {
t.Errorf("the unit does not say %q:\n%s", want, text)
}
}
}