Let a build agent be paused, have a build killed, and end an ask cancelled as it took it (hq ADR 0219)

A queued ask could only be waited out and a running build only ended by
stopping the machine, which redelivered it elsewhere. The holder now serves
current, kill, pause and resume on its own machine's subjects; a kill ends
the build's process group and labelled containers and settles the ask as
failed, killed by hand; pause is kept in the workspace across a restart and
said on the bus. The controller writes cancelled ids to a cancelled set the
holder reads on taking an ask, closing the race a delete alone leaves.
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jochen
2026-10-05 19:17:42 +02:00
parent f80b6cdbd1
commit e610f2d92c
17 changed files with 1601 additions and 16 deletions
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@@ -19,11 +19,13 @@ import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"log"
"net/url"
"os"
"os/signal"
"strings"
"syscall"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/broker"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/builder"
@@ -107,48 +109,89 @@ func run() error {
ctx, stop := signal.NotifyContext(context.Background(), syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
defer stop()
machine, err := takeWorkFrom(credential, on)
js, seat, err := dialFor(credential)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer js.Close()
// **This machine's holder: paused or not, and the build it is running** (novox/hq ADR 0219). The
// paused flag is read from the workspace before anything is taken, so a holder restarted while
// paused takes nothing.
h := newHolder(on, seat, workspace, func(state link.HolderState) error {
body, err := json.Marshal(state)
if err != nil {
return err
}
_, err = js.Context().Publish(link.BuildPausedOf(seat, on), body)
return err
})
if h.Paused() {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "paused (kept in %s): taking no build until resumed\n", pausedFile(workspace))
}
machine := link.MachineOverNATSWith(js, on, seat, link.MachineOptions{Paused: h.Paused})
defer machine.Close()
// The seat's verbs, on this machine's subjects. Only the seat that declares them: the retired
// one serves none, and a subscription its holder has no grant for would be refused for ever.
if seat == link.TheBuildMachine {
stopServing, err := link.OverNATS{Conn: js.Conn()}.ServeNodeSeatTools(seat, on, h.handlers(),
log.New(os.Stderr, "", 0))
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer stopServing()
go h.stateWhilePaused(ctx, time.Hour)
}
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "building for the mesh, publishing to %s\n", registry)
publisher := builder.Registry{Address: registry, Run: builder.Command}
return machine.Take(ctx, func(ctx context.Context, work link.Build) {
answer(ctx, publisher, on, workspace, work)
answer(ctx, publisher, on, workspace, work, h)
})
}
// takeWorkFrom opens this machine's link to whichever bus the mesh is on.
// dialFor opens this machine's link to whichever bus the mesh is on, and says which build seat it
// holds.
//
// **One place chooses**, as everywhere else the bus change went (novox/hq ADR 0116 step 5): a build
// machine told about both would take work from one and answer on the other, and every log line would
// say it was fine.
func takeWorkFrom(credential Credential, on string) (link.BuildMachine, error) {
func dialFor(credential Credential) (*broker.JetStream, string, error) {
// **The credential names the bus, and there is one** (novox/hq ADR 0131, design 28 task 5.5).
// A credential for the mesh's bus carries user, password and fingerprint beside the address,
// and that is enough to dial it, pinned.
if !credential.onTheNewBus() {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("the credential at hand names %q, which is not the mesh's bus", credential.URL)
return nil, "", fmt.Errorf("the credential at hand names %q, which is not the mesh's bus", credential.URL)
}
js, err := broker.DialPinned(credential.natsURL(), credential.Fingerprint)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
return nil, "", err
}
// **The seat this machine serves is the one its credential claims** (novox/hq ADR 0190, the
// handover): the mesh issues a build machine's credential naming the seat its module claims,
// and one binary serves the old role as `builder` and the new as `build-agent` from that alone.
seat := link.BuildSeatClaimed(credential.seatsClaimed())
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "taking build work as a holder of %s\n", seat)
return link.MachineOverNATSOn(js, on, seat), nil
return js, seat, nil
}
// answer does one build and says what happened, whichever way it went.
func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace string, work link.Build) {
func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace string, work link.Build, h *holder) {
request := work.Request()
// **Its own context, so it can be killed alone** (novox/hq ADR 0219): cancelled by `kill`, it ends
// this build's commands and nothing else; the machine's own context ending — a SIGTERM — still
// reaches it through the parent, and that keeps today's meaning below.
building, cancel := context.WithCancel(ctx)
defer cancel()
var mine *running
if h != nil {
mine = h.begin(request, cancel)
defer h.end(mine)
}
// **First thing, and to stdout.** A build request that arrives and produces no visible line until
// it either finishes or fails is indistinguishable from one that never arrived — which cost a long
// diagnosis against a running mesh, chasing "the handler never fired" when the truth was only that
@@ -162,6 +205,9 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
say := func(step, message string) {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, " [%s] %s\n", step, message)
work.Say(step, message)
if mine != nil && step != "run" && step != "output" {
h.stepped(mine, step)
}
}
builder.Said = say
defer func() { builder.Said = nil }()
@@ -188,11 +234,20 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
// The package-registry credential is a build input, so it is resolved before the clone: a
// build that could not have resolved its dependencies is refused in front of the reason, not
// after a clone that then fails at npm ci.
built, err = builder.Build(ctx, builder.Command, publisher,
// Every container it starts is labelled with its id, so a kill finds what outlived the
// docker client (ADR 0219).
built, err = builder.Build(building, builder.Labelled(builder.Command, request.ID), publisher,
request.Repository, request.Path, request.Ref, workspace, request.Held, npmrc,
forgeFrom(), say, request.Seats)
}
if err != nil {
// Only a build the kill ended: one that finished in the moment the kill arrived built, and says so.
killed := err != nil && mine != nil && h.wasKilled(mine)
if killed {
// **Killed by hand is the outcome, whatever the build was doing** (novox/hq ADR 0219): the
// error it ended with is the kill's consequence, not a fault of the source.
result.Failed = link.KilledByHand
say("failed", link.KilledByHand)
} else if err != nil {
// A failure is a result. A build that fails and says nothing is indistinguishable from a
// builder that is not running, and those want completely different responses.
result.Failed = err.Error()
@@ -217,7 +272,17 @@ func answer(ctx context.Context, publisher builder.Publisher, on, workspace stri
}
}
if err := work.Announce(ctx, result); err != nil {
// A killed build is announced on a context of its own: the build's was the one cancelled, and the
// outcome must go out and the ask be settled — acknowledged, never redelivered to another machine
// to be built again. A machine being stopped is the other case and keeps its meaning: the
// parent's context is gone, nothing is announced or settled, and the ask is redelivered.
announcing := ctx
if killed {
fresh, stop := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 30*time.Second)
defer stop()
announcing = fresh
}
if err := work.Announce(announcing, result); err != nil {
// Said, not fatal: the build happened. A build reported as failed because announcing it
// failed is a lie about work that was done — and the request stays unsettled below only if
// nothing was said at all, so another machine can try.