A seat's work is shared by its holders: node-build-agent, pulled one ask at a time (hq ADR 0190) #228

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mesh-admin merged 5 commits from feat/a-seats-work-is-shared-by-its-holders into main 2026-10-03 00:53:42 +00:00
9 changed files with 187 additions and 23 deletions
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@@ -430,11 +430,13 @@ func buildOne(ctx context.Context, source buildSource, path, ref string, wait ti
}
fmt.Println()
ask, err := askOver(server)
seat := buildSeatHeld(ctx)
ask, err := askOverOn(seat)
if err != nil {
return err
}
defer ask.Close()
fmt.Printf(" of %s\n", seat)
if wait == 0 {
// Asked and not waited for (novox/hq issue 176): the outcome is the role's event, and the
@@ -555,7 +557,7 @@ func buildAndShow(ctx context.Context, source buildSource, path, ref string, wai
}
defer server.Close()
ask, err := askOver(server)
ask, err := askOverOn(buildSeatHeld(ctx))
if err != nil {
return err
}
@@ -668,12 +670,56 @@ func heldBy(ctx context.Context) map[string]string {
// **One place chooses**, as everywhere else the bus change went (novox/hq ADR 0116 step 5). On the bus
// the mesh runs on today this needs the controller's own connection, so it is handed one; on the bus
// being built it dials, because a build request is a one-shot and holds nothing else.
func askOver(_ *link.Server) (link.Builders, error) {
func askOverOn(seat string) (link.Builders, error) {
address, err := broker.BusAddress()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return link.BuildsOverNATS(address)
return link.BuildsOverNATSOn(address, seat)
}
// buildSeatHeld is the build role to ask: the one some assigned module claims (novox/hq ADR 0190,
// the handover). Read from the catalogue at ask time, because the answer changes exactly once, the
// moment the first build-agent is assigned — and a controller that asked the new role before then
// would queue work nothing takes, while the outcome that registers build-agent itself has to come
// from the old builder. When the catalogue cannot be read the current role is asked, said aloud.
func buildSeatHeld(ctx context.Context) string {
open, err := openStores(ctx)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not read what is assigned, so the build is asked of %s: %v\n",
link.TheBuildMachine, err)
return link.TheBuildMachine
}
defer open.Close()
entries, err := open.inventory.Catalogued(ctx)
if err != nil {
fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "could not read the catalogue, so the build is asked of %s: %v\n",
link.TheBuildMachine, err)
return link.TheBuildMachine
}
return buildSeatAmong(entries)
}
// buildSeatAmong is the rule, over what the catalogue holds: the current build role when any
// assigned module claims it; else the retired role while an assigned module still claims that; else
// the current role, which is where every ask goes once the handover is done.
func buildSeatAmong(entries []inventory.Entry) string {
heldBefore := false
for _, e := range entries {
if len(e.On) == 0 {
continue
}
if e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat(link.TheBuildMachine) {
return link.TheBuildMachine
}
if e.Manifest.ClaimsSeat(link.TheBuildMachineBefore) {
heldBefore = true
}
}
if heldBefore {
return link.TheBuildMachineBefore
}
return link.TheBuildMachine
}
// buildLog prints everything a build machine said about one build, read back from the bus.
@@ -693,10 +739,13 @@ func buildLog(ctx context.Context, id string) error {
}
defer js.Close()
sub, err := js.Context().PullSubscribe(link.BuildLog(id), "",
// Under whichever build role did it: a build asked of the retired role during the handover
// (ADR 0190) said its lines as that role's events, and a reader should not have to know which.
lines := link.BuildLogOf("*", id)
sub, err := js.Context().PullSubscribe(lines, "",
nats.BindStream(broker.EventsStream), nats.DeliverAll(), nats.AckNone())
if err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot read %s from the bus: %w", link.BuildLog(id), err)
return fmt.Errorf("cannot read %s from the bus: %w", lines, err)
}
defer func() { _ = sub.Unsubscribe() }()
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
package main
import (
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
)
func claiming(module, seat string, on ...string) inventory.Entry {
return inventory.Entry{
Manifest: catalogue.Manifest{Module: module, Claims: []catalogue.Claim{{Name: seat}}},
On: on,
}
}
// The controller asks the build role that has a holder (novox/hq ADR 0190 handover): the retired
// one while only the builder is assigned, the current one from the first build-agent on, and the
// current one when nothing holds either — where every ask goes once the handover is done.
func TestTheControllerAsksTheBuildRoleThatHasAHolder(t *testing.T) {
onlyTheBuilder := []inventory.Entry{
claiming("builder", link.TheBuildMachineBefore, "anchor"),
claiming("build-agent", link.TheBuildMachine), // registered, assigned nowhere yet
}
if got := buildSeatAmong(onlyTheBuilder); got != link.TheBuildMachineBefore {
t.Errorf("with only the builder assigned, asked %q", got)
}
bothHeld := []inventory.Entry{
claiming("builder", link.TheBuildMachineBefore, "anchor"),
claiming("build-agent", link.TheBuildMachine, "home-server"),
}
if got := buildSeatAmong(bothHeld); got != link.TheBuildMachine {
t.Errorf("with a build-agent assigned anywhere, asked %q", got)
}
neither := []inventory.Entry{claiming("builder", link.TheBuildMachineBefore)}
if got := buildSeatAmong(neither); got != link.TheBuildMachine {
t.Errorf("with no holder of either, asked %q, want the current role", got)
}
if got := buildSeatAmong(nil); got != link.TheBuildMachine {
t.Errorf("an empty catalogue asks %q", got)
}
}
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@@ -113,7 +113,10 @@ type Principal struct {
// seatsTheControllerAsks are the roles the mesh's own flows submit work to. Named rather than
// derived from the seat set: the controller is not a module and declares no `uses`, so its side of a
// seat has to be stated, and a list is what makes "which roles does the mesh itself talk to" answerable.
var seatsTheControllerAsks = []string{"node-build-agent"}
// Both build roles while the handover runs (novox/hq ADR 0190): the controller asks whichever has a
// holder, and the retired one has one until build-agent replaces the builder. The second entry
// goes with the retired seat row.
var seatsTheControllerAsks = []string{"node-build-agent", "mesh-build-machine"}
// enrolmentPrefix is the space every enrolling node's user and inbox live under, so the one place the
// controller may answer an enrolment is derived from the same constant the user is named from.
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@@ -221,6 +221,11 @@ var ControllerFollows = []string{
// The forge's merges: what moved a source, so the mesh builds what that source produces
// without anybody telling it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/131). Appended, because the index is a name.
moduleEventSubject("gitea", "pull.merged"),
// The retired build role's outcome too, while the handover runs (novox/hq ADR 0190): the one
// build machine keeps answering on its seat until build-agent replaces it, and the outcome that
// registers build-agent itself comes from there. Appended, for the same reason as above; goes
// with the retired seat row.
seatEventSubject("mesh-build-machine", "built"),
}
// moduleEventSubject is where one module's event lands. The same derivation PermissionsFor uses, so
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@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ accounts {
jetstream: enabled
users = [
{ user: "controller", password: "$2a$11$cccccccccccccccccccccc", permissions: {
publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>"] }
subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
publish: { allow: ["$JS.ACK.CONTROL.controller.>", "$JS.ACK.EVENTS.controller.>", "$JS.API.>", "_INBOX.enrol.>", "mesh.assignment.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.*.tool.>", "mesh.node.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.accept.>", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.applied", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.built-before", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.event.refused", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.accept.>"] }
subscribe: { allow: ["$JS.API.>", "_DELIVER.controller", "_DELIVER.controller.>", "_INBOX.controller.>", "mesh.control.>", "mesh.mod.gitea.event.pull.merged", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.catching-up", "mesh.mod.mesh-catalog.event.upgraded", "mesh.seat.mesh-build-machine.event.built", "mesh.seat.mesh-controller.tool.>", "mesh.seat.node-build-agent.event.built"] }
allow_responses: { max: 1, ttl: "1m" }
} }
{ user: "enrol.one", password: "$2a$11$eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee", permissions: {
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@@ -23,12 +23,21 @@ import (
// builds, and the work shared among them (novox/hq ADR 0190). The name stays for every caller; what
// it names moved from the mesh's one build machine to whichever build agent is idle.
//
// **Switching a live mesh over, in order.** The old seat's stream and worker
// (SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE, SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE_worker) stay on the bus until removed by hand,
// and the builder module keeps draining them while it is assigned. From the moment a controller
// with this name runs, new asks go to node-build-agent and wait in its stream until some machine
// holds the seat. So: let the queued builds finish; roll this controller; register and assign
// build-agent to the machines that build; unassign builder and forget it and its seat's stream.
// **Switching a live mesh over, in order** — and why no step strands a build. The old seat's
// stream and worker (SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE, SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE_worker) stay on the bus until
// removed by hand, and the builder keeps draining them while it is assigned, because a machine
// serves the seat its credential claims (BuildSeatClaimed) and the controller asks the seat that
// has a holder (buildSeatAmong in the command) and hears both seats' outcomes:
//
// 1. Merge the controller and the host's first user list together; the new controller rolls and,
// seeing only the builder assigned, still asks mesh-build-machine — which the builder holds.
// 2. Merge the catalogue's build-agent; the builder builds it and the controller registers it.
// 3. On each machine that builds: `module issue build-agent --node <n>`, then `assign`, then
// `push`. The first holder appears, and from then on asks go to node-build-agent.
// 4. Unassign builder everywhere and `module forget` it.
// 5. By hand: delete SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE and its worker, drop the retired seat row and
// TheBuildMachineBefore with it, and the second entries in seatsTheControllerAsks and
// ControllerFollows.
const TheBuildMachine = "node-build-agent"
// TheBuildMachineBefore is the role a build was submitted to until ADR 0190: the mesh's one build
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@@ -25,16 +25,34 @@ import (
type natsBuilds struct {
js *broker.JetStream
owned bool
// seat is the build role asked: the one that has a holder (ADR 0190 handover), chosen by the
// controller from what is assigned, so an ask lands where a machine is pulling.
seat string
}
// BuildsOverNATS is the asking side on the bus being built. It dials, because the command that asks
// for a build is a one-shot and holds nothing else.
// BuildsOverNATS is the asking side on the bus being built, asking the current build role. It dials,
// because the command that asks for a build is a one-shot and holds nothing else.
func BuildsOverNATS(address string) (Builders, error) {
return BuildsOverNATSOn(address, TheBuildMachine)
}
// BuildsOverNATSOn is the asking side for one named build role — during the handover from the one
// build machine to build agents, the role that has a holder (ADR 0190).
func BuildsOverNATSOn(address, seat string) (Builders, error) {
js, err := broker.Dial(address)
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the bus at %s to ask for a build: %w", address, err)
}
return &natsBuilds{js: js, owned: true}, nil
return &natsBuilds{js: js, owned: true, seat: seat}, nil
}
// role is the seat asked: what the asker was made for, or the current build role for one made
// without saying (a test building the struct by hand).
func (b *natsBuilds) role() string {
if b.seat == "" {
return TheBuildMachine
}
return b.seat
}
func (b *natsBuilds) Close() {
@@ -51,7 +69,7 @@ func (b *natsBuilds) Ask(ctx context.Context, request BuildRequest) error {
}
publish, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 30*time.Second)
defer cancel()
if _, err := b.js.Context().Publish(BuildWork(), body, nats.Context(publish)); err != nil {
if _, err := b.js.Context().Publish(BuildWorkOf(b.role()), body, nats.Context(publish)); err != nil {
return fmt.Errorf("cannot submit a build: %w", err)
}
return nil
@@ -63,7 +81,7 @@ func (b *natsBuilds) Submit(ctx context.Context, request BuildRequest,
// Subscribed before the ask, so an outcome cannot arrive before there is anywhere for it to
// land. Core, not the stream: the asker is waiting now, and the durable copy of this outcome is
// the same event on EVENTS, which the controller records.
outcomes, err := b.js.Conn().SubscribeSync(BuildOutcome())
outcomes, err := b.js.Conn().SubscribeSync(BuildOutcomeOf(b.role()))
if err != nil {
return BuildResult{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot listen for a build's outcome: %w", err)
}
@@ -80,7 +98,7 @@ func (b *natsBuilds) Submit(ctx context.Context, request BuildRequest,
// be assumed, because nothing else will ever say so.
publish, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, 30*time.Second)
defer cancel()
if _, err := b.js.Context().Publish(BuildWork(), body, nats.Context(publish)); err != nil {
if _, err := b.js.Context().Publish(BuildWorkOf(b.role()), body, nats.Context(publish)); err != nil {
return BuildResult{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot submit a build: %w", err)
}
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@@ -325,3 +325,39 @@ func TestNatsTwoMachinesShareTheWorkAndNeitherIsHandedMoreThanItCanTake(t *testi
case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
}
}
// During the handover (ADR 0190) two build roles exist. A machine whose credential claims the retired
// one takes an ask published to that seat and answers as that seat; the asker of that seat hears it.
func TestNatsAMachineOnTheRetiredBuildRoleTakesThatRolesAsks(t *testing.T) {
js := aBusWithTheBuildRole(t)
seats := []broker.DeclaredSeat{{Name: TheBuildMachineBefore, Accepts: []string{"build"}, Emits: []string{"built"}}}
if err := broker.RaiseSeats(js, seats, map[string]broker.Holder{TheBuildMachineBefore: {Node: "anchor", Module: "builder"}}); err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
t.Cleanup(func() { _ = js.Context().DeleteStream("SEAT_MESH_BUILD_MACHINE") })
ctx, stop := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
defer stop()
machine := MachineOverNATSOn(js, "anchor", TheBuildMachineBefore)
defer machine.Close()
go func() {
_ = machine.Take(ctx, func(ctx context.Context, work Build) {
_ = work.Began(ctx)
_ = work.Announce(ctx, BuildResult{ID: work.Request().ID, Repository: work.Request().Repository, On: "anchor", Commit: "abc"})
_ = work.Done()
})
}()
asker, err := BuildsOverNATSOn(os.Getenv("MESH_TEST_NATS"), TheBuildMachineBefore)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
defer asker.Close()
result, err := asker.Submit(ctx, BuildRequest{ID: "build-old-seat", Repository: "r"}, 20*time.Second)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if result.On != "anchor" || result.ID != "build-old-seat" {
t.Errorf("the retired role's holder did not answer: %+v", result)
}
}
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@@ -223,10 +223,11 @@ func kindOfSubject(subject string) (string, bool) {
return KindCatchUp, true
case broker.ControllerFollows[3]:
return KindSourceMoved, true
case BuildOutcome():
case BuildOutcome(), BuildOutcomeOf(TheBuildMachineBefore):
// A build's outcome is the role's event now, so it arrives on the events stream rather than
// the control branch — and is acted on by the same handler, because what the controller does
// with it did not change (novox/hq ADR 0121).
// with it did not change (novox/hq ADR 0121). From either build role while the handover
// runs (ADR 0190): the old builder still answers on the retired seat until it is unassigned.
return KindBuilt, true
}
return "", false