cmd/mesh-controller/adopting_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,255 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"reflect"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/link"
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/overlay"
+)
+
+// novox/hq ADR 0100: taking a module is its cutover; converging a node is one act, previewed, and
+// refused while a found container is held; returning to adopted keeps what was taken.
+
+// anAdoptedAnchor is aMesh with the anchor adopted, running a served module the predecessor also
+// runs and a module with only a file, and a filter module in the catalogue.
+func anAdoptedAnchor(t *testing.T) (*stores, *[]string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	open := aMesh(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "hello-web", Version: "1",
+		Listens: []catalogue.Listening{{Port: 8080, From: catalogue.FromEverywhere}},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{
+			{"id": "page", "type": "file", "path": "/var/lib/hello-web/index.html", "content": "hi"},
+			{"id": "server", "type": "container", "name": "hello-web", "ports": []any{"8080:80"},
+				"image": "registry.example/hello@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)},
+		}})
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "notes", Version: "1",
+		Resources: []map[string]any{
+			{"id": "conf", "type": "file", "path": "/etc/notes.conf", "content": "x"},
+		}})
+	register(t, open, catalogue.Manifest{Module: "nftables", Version: "1",
+		Filtering: &catalogue.Filtering{Into: "/etc/nftables.conf"},
+		Resources: []map[string]any{{"id": "load", "type": "service", "unit": "mesh-filter.service",
+			"state": "running", "restart-on": []any{"filtering"}}}})
+	if err := open.inventory.SetAdopted(ctx, "anchor", true); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, m := range []string{"hello-web", "notes"} {
+		if _, err := assign(ctx, open, "anchor", m); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	sent := &[]string{}
+	saved := sendNodes
+	sendNodes = func(_ context.Context, _ *stores, names []string) error {
+		*sent = append(*sent, names...)
+		return nil
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { sendNodes = saved })
+	return open, sent
+}
+
+// reportsHolding has the anchor report, on what it was last sent, holding what is given.
+func reportsHolding(t *testing.T, open *stores, held ...link.Held) {
+	t.Helper()
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	body, err := composed(t, open, "anchor").Body()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	record, err := open.inventory.NodeByName(ctx, "anchor")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := open.inventory.RecordSent(ctx, record.ID, digestOf(body)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := (link.Enrolment{Inventory: open.inventory}).Heard(ctx, link.Report{
+		Node: "anchor", Applied: []string{"hello-web.x"}, Declared: digestOf(body),
+		Firewall: "ufw", Held: held,
+		Reachable: []link.Reach{
+			{Protocol: "tcp", Address: "0.0.0.0", Port: 22, By: "sshd"},
+			{Protocol: "tcp", Address: "0.0.0.0", Port: 8080, By: "hello-web", Published: true,
+				ContainerPort: 80},
+			{Protocol: "tcp", Address: "0.0.0.0", Port: 5000, By: "predecessor-registry",
+				Published: true, ContainerPort: 5000},
+			{Protocol: "tcp", Address: "127.0.0.1", Port: 15672, By: "mesh-broker",
+				Published: true, ContainerPort: 15672},
+		},
+	}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
+
+var (
+	heldContainer = link.Held{ID: "hello-web.server", Module: "hello-web", Kind: "container",
+		Target: "hello-web", Since: time.Now()}
+	heldFile = link.Held{ID: "notes.conf", Module: "notes", Kind: "file",
+		Target: "/etc/notes.conf", Since: time.Now(), Kept: "/var/lib/mesh-host/kept/abc-notes.conf"}
+)
+
+func TestTakingAModuleNotOnTheNodeIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
+	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "nftables"); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAssigned) {
+		t.Fatalf("taking an unassigned module gave %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := take(t.Context(), open, "laptop", "network"); !errors.Is(err, inventory.ErrNotAdopted) {
+		t.Fatalf("taking on a converged node gave %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConvergingIsRefusedOnAPreviewThatWouldBeStale(t *testing.T) {
+	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	_, err := converge(t.Context(), open, "anchor", false, "")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "has not reported") {
+		t.Fatalf("a node that never reported was previewed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(*sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("a refused converge sent something")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTheFlipIsRefusedWhileAFoundContainerIsHeld(t *testing.T) {
+	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	reportsHolding(t, open, heldContainer, heldFile)
+	_, err := converge(t.Context(), open, "anchor", true, "")
+	if err == nil || !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "take anchor hello-web once its data has moved") {
+		t.Fatalf("the flip was not refused while hello-web holds its found container: %v", err)
+	}
+	if n, _ := open.inventory.NodeByName(t.Context(), "anchor"); !n.Adopted || len(*sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("a refused flip changed something")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTakingNamesWhatItReplaces(t *testing.T) {
+	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	reportsHolding(t, open, heldContainer, heldFile)
+	said, err := take(t.Context(), open, "anchor", "hello-web")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(said, "container hello-web (hello-web.server)") ||
+		!strings.Contains(said, "push anchor") {
+		t.Fatalf("taking did not say what it replaces and what to run:\n%s", said)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestConvergingPreviewsThenChangesAndAdoptingKeepsWhatWasTaken(t *testing.T) {
+	open, sent := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	ctx := t.Context()
+	if _, err := take(ctx, open, "anchor", "hello-web"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	reportsHolding(t, open, heldFile)
+
+	preview, err := converge(ctx, open, "anchor", false, "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{
+		"tcp/8080 hello-web (published, container port 80)",
+		"declared by hello-web (from anywhere)",
+		"WILL CLOSE — no module assigned here declares it",
+		"ssh is never closed",
+		"notes\n      replacing the found file /etc/notes.conf (original kept at",
+		"assigns nftables",
+		"the found firewall (ufw) is disabled, never flushed",
+	} {
+		if !strings.Contains(preview, want) {
+			t.Errorf("the preview does not say %q:\n%s", want, preview)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(preview, "15672") {
+		t.Errorf("a loopback listener is in the preview:\n%s", preview)
+	}
+	for _, line := range strings.Split(preview, "\n") {
+		if strings.Contains(line, "5000") && !strings.Contains(line, "WILL CLOSE") {
+			t.Errorf("an undeclared published port is not said to close: %s", line)
+		}
+	}
+	if n, _ := open.inventory.NodeByName(ctx, "anchor"); !n.Adopted || len(*sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("the preview changed something")
+	}
+
+	if _, err := converge(ctx, open, "anchor", true, ""); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	n, _ := open.inventory.NodeByName(ctx, "anchor")
+	if n.Adopted {
+		t.Fatal("converge --yes left the node adopted")
+	}
+	taken, _ := open.inventory.Taken(ctx, "anchor")
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(taken, []string{"hello-web", overlay.Name, "nftables", "notes"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the flip took %v", taken)
+	}
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(*sent, []string{"anchor"}) {
+		t.Fatalf("the flip sent %v", *sent)
+	}
+	declared := composed(t, open, "anchor")
+	if declared.Adoption != nil {
+		t.Fatal("a converged node is still sent an adoption envelope")
+	}
+	if !hasID(declared.Resources, "nftables.filtering") {
+		t.Fatal("the converged node is not declared the mesh's filter")
+	}
+
+	if _, err := adopt(ctx, open, "anchor"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := adopt(ctx, open, "anchor"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("adopting an adopted node was not refused")
+	}
+	again, _ := open.inventory.Taken(ctx, "anchor")
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(again, taken) {
+		t.Fatalf("returning to adopted lost what was taken: %v", again)
+	}
+	declared = composed(t, open, "anchor")
+	if declared.Adoption == nil || len(declared.Adoption.Untaken) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("returned to adopted, the envelope is %+v", declared.Adoption)
+	}
+	if hasID(declared.Resources, "nftables.filtering") || hasID(declared.Resources, "nftables.load") {
+		t.Fatal("returned to adopted, the mesh's filter is still declared")
+	}
+}
+
+func hasID(resources []map[string]any, id string) bool {
+	for _, r := range resources {
+		if r["id"] == id {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// The command API refuses a flip exactly as the command line does, in the same words.
+func TestTheApiRefusesTheFlipInTheCommandLinesWords(t *testing.T) {
+	open, _ := anAdoptedAnchor(t)
+	reportsHolding(t, open, heldContainer)
+	_, direct := converge(t.Context(), open, "anchor", true, "")
+	if direct == nil {
+		t.Fatal("the flip was not refused")
+	}
+	got := asking(t, letIn{}, "POST", "/converge", `{"node":"anchor","yes":true}`)
+	if got.Code != http.StatusConflict {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d: %s", got.Code, got.Body.String())
+	}
+	var said map[string]any
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(got.Body.Bytes(), &said); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if said["refused"] != direct.Error() {
+		t.Fatalf("the API said %q and the command line %q", said["refused"], direct.Error())
+	}
+	if got := asking(t, letIn{}, "POST", "/take", `{"node":"anchor"}`); got.Code != http.StatusBadRequest {
+		t.Fatalf("a take naming no module got %d", got.Code)
+	}
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/adoption.go

@@ -2,10 +2,15 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
+	"slices"
+	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/catalogue"
 	"github.com/novox/mesh-controller/internal/inventory"
 )
 
@@ -73,3 +78,340 @@ func adoptedNodes(nodes []inventory.Node) []string {
 	}
 	return out
 }
+
+// The operator's acts on an adopted node (novox/hq ADR 0100). Called by the command line and the
+// command API alike, so a refusal is the same refusal in the same words at both (ADR 0035).
+
+// sendNodes sends the named machines what they should be now. A variable so a test can see what
+// an act would send without a broker.
+var sendNodes = sendTo
+
+// DefaultFilter is the module converging a node assigns to load the mesh's derived filter.
+const DefaultFilter = "nftables"
+
+// take is a module's cutover on an adopted node: the operator's act, done when that module's data
+// has moved. From the next push its resources converge there like any other, replacing what the
+// node found and holds for it.
+func take(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node, module string) (string, error) {
+	inv := open.inventory
+	assigned, err := inv.Assigned(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(assigned, module) {
+		if plan, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node); err == nil {
+			if why, runs := plan.Because[module]; runs {
+				return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s runs on %s because %s — assign it to %s to take it",
+					inventory.ErrNotAssigned, module, node, why, node)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if err := inv.Take(ctx, node, module); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	said := fmt.Sprintf("%s is taken on %s", module, node)
+	reported, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	var replaces []string
+	for _, h := range reported.Held {
+		if h.Module == module {
+			replaces = append(replaces, fmt.Sprintf("  %s %s (%s)", h.Kind, h.Target, h.ID))
+		}
+	}
+	if len(replaces) > 0 {
+		said += "; the next push replaces what the node found and holds for it:\n" +
+			strings.Join(replaces, "\n")
+	}
+	return said + fmt.Sprintf("\n  run `push %s` to cut it over", node), nil
+}
+
+// converge previews, and with yes makes, the flip of an adopted node to converged: every module it
+// runs is taken, the filter module is assigned to load the mesh's derived filter in place of the
+// guard, and the found firewall is retired — disabled, never flushed — by the host.
+//
+// Refused while an assigned module still holds a found container: each service is taken on its
+// own, when its data has moved, never by the flip. And refused on a preview that would be stale:
+// what is reachable is the node's last account, so that account must be of what it was last sent.
+func converge(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string, yes bool, filter string) (string, error) {
+	inv := open.inventory
+	if filter == "" {
+		filter = DefaultFilter
+	}
+	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !record.Adopted {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is converged already; there is nothing to flip", node)
+	}
+	reports, err := inv.LastReports(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	current := false
+	for _, r := range reports {
+		if r.Node == node {
+			current = r.Current
+		}
+	}
+	reported, err := inv.AdoptionOf(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !current || reported.At.IsZero() {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s has not reported on the declaration it was last sent, so what it "+
+			"says is reachable may not be the machine as it is: run `push %s --wait 2m` and "+
+			"converge once it has applied", node, node)
+	}
+
+	plan, settings, err := planFor(ctx, open, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	runs := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, m := range plan.Modules {
+		runs[m.Module] = true
+	}
+	var holding []string
+	for _, h := range reported.Held {
+		if h.Kind == "container" && runs[h.Module] {
+			holding = append(holding, fmt.Sprintf("  %s holds the found container %s — take %s %s "+
+				"once its data has moved", h.Module, h.Target, node, h.Module))
+		}
+	}
+	if len(holding) > 0 {
+		sort.Strings(holding)
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s still holds what it found, and a service is taken on its own, "+
+			"never by the flip:\n%s", node, strings.Join(holding, "\n"))
+	}
+
+	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	filterModule, known := shelf[filter]
+	if !known {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %s — converging assigns it to load the mesh's filter; "+
+			"name another with --filter", inventory.ErrNoSuchModule, filter)
+	}
+	if filterModule.Filtering == nil {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s loads no filter of the mesh's; name a module that does with --filter",
+			filter)
+	}
+
+	gens, err := generators(ctx, open)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	with, _, err := renderingFor(ctx, open, node, plan, settings, gens, Reading)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	rules, err := plan.Rules(with)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	taken, err := inv.Taken(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	preview := previewOf(node, reported, rules, with.Foundation, plan, taken, filter, runs[filter])
+	if !yes {
+		return preview + fmt.Sprintf("\n\nNothing has changed. Run `converge %s --yes` to do it.", node), nil
+	}
+
+	// The flip. The filter first, and only kept if the node still resolves with it: a node that
+	// cannot be worked out would be sent nothing, and would sit with its guard and no filter.
+	assigned, err := inv.Assigned(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if !slices.Contains(assigned, filter) {
+		if err := inv.Assign(ctx, node, filter); err != nil {
+			return "", err
+		}
+		if _, _, err := planFor(ctx, open, node); err != nil {
+			_ = inv.Unassign(ctx, node, filter)
+			return "", fmt.Errorf("%s cannot run %s, so it was not converged: %w", node, filter, err)
+		}
+	}
+	took, err := inv.Converge(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	said := preview + fmt.Sprintf("\n\n%s is converged", node)
+	if len(took) > 0 {
+		said += "; took " + strings.Join(took, ", ")
+	}
+	if err := sendNodes(ctx, open, []string{node}); err != nil {
+		return said + "\n  and it could not be sent: run `push " + node + "`", err
+	}
+	return said + "\n  sent: the host loads the mesh's filter and disables the firewall it found", nil
+}
+
+// previewOf is what converging a node will change, before it changes it.
+func previewOf(node string, reported inventory.Adoption, rules []catalogue.Rule, foundation []int,
+	plan catalogue.Resolution, taken []string, filter string, filterAssigned bool) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "converging %s\n", node)
+	fmt.Fprintf(&b, "\n  reachable on the machine now, as it reported at %s:\n",
+		reported.At.Local().Format(time.DateTime))
+	for _, r := range reported.Reachable {
+		if loopback(r.Address) {
+			continue
+		}
+		what := fmt.Sprintf("%s/%d", r.Protocol, r.Port)
+		if r.By != "" {
+			what += " " + r.By
+		}
+		if r.Published {
+			what += fmt.Sprintf(" (published, container port %d)", r.ContainerPort)
+		}
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "    %-44s %s\n", what, fate(r, rules, foundation))
+	}
+	if len(reported.Reachable) == 0 {
+		b.WriteString("    nothing reported\n")
+	}
+
+	isTaken := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, m := range taken {
+		isTaken[m] = true
+	}
+	var takes []string
+	for _, m := range plan.Modules {
+		if !isTaken[m.Module] {
+			takes = append(takes, m.Module)
+		}
+	}
+	if !filterAssigned && !isTaken[filter] {
+		takes = append(takes, filter)
+	}
+	sort.Strings(takes)
+	b.WriteString("\n  the flip takes:\n")
+	if len(takes) == 0 {
+		b.WriteString("    nothing — every module is taken already\n")
+	}
+	for _, m := range takes {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "    %s\n", m)
+		for _, h := range reported.Held {
+			if h.Module == m && h.Kind == "file" {
+				fmt.Fprintf(&b, "      replacing the found file %s", h.Target)
+				if h.Kept != "" {
+					fmt.Fprintf(&b, " (original kept at %s)", h.Kept)
+				}
+				b.WriteString("\n")
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !filterAssigned {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "\n  and assigns %s, which loads the mesh's filter in place of its guard\n", filter)
+	}
+	fw := reported.Firewall
+	if fw == "" || fw == "none" {
+		b.WriteString("  no firewall was found on the machine; the mesh's filter is its first\n")
+	} else {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "  the found firewall (%s) is disabled, never flushed: its configuration stays on disk\n", fw)
+	}
+	return strings.TrimRight(b.String(), "\n")
+}
+
+// fate is what the derived filter does to one reachable thing: which module declares it and from
+// where, or that it will close.
+func fate(r inventory.Reach, rules []catalogue.Rule, foundation []int) string {
+	if r.Protocol == "tcp" && r.Port == catalogue.SSHPort {
+		return "stays open — ssh is never closed"
+	}
+	for _, port := range foundation {
+		if r.Protocol == "tcp" && r.Port == port {
+			return "stays open — the mesh's own, from anywhere"
+		}
+	}
+	for _, rule := range rules {
+		if rule.Port != r.Port || rule.Protocol != r.Protocol {
+			continue
+		}
+		if rule.From == catalogue.FromMachine {
+			return fmt.Sprintf("WILL CLOSE to the network — declared by %s for this machine only",
+				strings.Join(rule.Because, ", "))
+		}
+		return fmt.Sprintf("declared by %s (from %s)", strings.Join(rule.Because, ", "), rule.From)
+	}
+	return "WILL CLOSE — no module assigned here declares it"
+}
+
+// loopback is an address nothing off the machine reaches.
+func loopback(address string) bool {
+	a := strings.Trim(address, "[]")
+	return strings.HasPrefix(a, "127.") || a == "::1" || a == "localhost"
+}
+
+// adopt returns a converged node to adopted: the mesh's filter is unloaded, the guard restored,
+// the found firewall enabled again and the openings converged through it once more. What was
+// taken stays taken.
+func adopt(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string) (string, error) {
+	inv := open.inventory
+	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	if record.Adopted {
+		return "", fmt.Errorf("%s is adopted already", node)
+	}
+	if err := inv.SetAdopted(ctx, node, true); err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	said := fmt.Sprintf("%s is adopted; what was taken on it stays taken", node)
+	if err := sendNodes(ctx, open, []string{node}); err != nil {
+		return said + "\n  and it could not be sent: run `push " + node + "`", err
+	}
+	return said + "\n  sent: the host unloads the mesh's filter and enables the firewall it found", nil
+}
+
+// takeCommand, convergeCommand and adoptCommand are the command line's adapters to the acts above.
+func takeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	if len(args) != 2 {
+		return errors.New("take <node> <module>")
+	}
+	return runAct(ctx, func(open *stores) (string, error) { return take(ctx, open, args[0], args[1]) })
+}
+
+func convergeCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	set := flag.NewFlagSet("converge", flag.ContinueOnError)
+	yes := set.Bool("yes", false, "do it; without it, only the preview")
+	filter := set.String("filter", DefaultFilter, "the module that loads the mesh's filter")
+	positionals, err := parseAround(set, args)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if len(positionals) != 1 {
+		return errors.New("converge <node> [--yes] [--filter nftables]")
+	}
+	return runAct(ctx, func(open *stores) (string, error) {
+		return converge(ctx, open, positionals[0], *yes, *filter)
+	})
+}
+
+func adoptCommand(ctx context.Context, args []string) error {
+	if len(args) != 1 {
+		return errors.New("adopt <node>")
+	}
+	return runAct(ctx, func(open *stores) (string, error) { return adopt(ctx, open, args[0]) })
+}
+
+func runAct(ctx context.Context, act func(*stores) (string, error)) error {
+	open, err := openStores(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	defer open.Close()
+	said, err := act(open)
+	if said != "" {
+		fmt.Println(said)
+	}
+	if err != nil && said != "" {
+		fmt.Println()
+	}
+	return err
+}

cmd/mesh-controller/api.go

@@ -94,19 +94,29 @@ func (n notYet) Who(*http.Request) (string, error) {
 func commands(who Authenticator) http.Handler {
 	mux := http.NewServeMux()
 
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /assign", acting(who, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /assign", acting(who, true, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
 		return assign(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Module)
 	}))
-	mux.HandleFunc("POST /unassign", acting(who, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /unassign", acting(who, true, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
 		return unassign(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Module)
 	}))
+	// Adoption (novox/hq ADR 0100): the same acts as `take`, `converge` and `adopt`.
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /take", acting(who, true, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
+		return take(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Module)
+	}))
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /converge", acting(who, false, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
+		return converge(ctx, open, in.Node, in.Yes, in.Filter)
+	}))
+	mux.HandleFunc("POST /adopt", acting(who, false, func(ctx context.Context, open *stores, in request) (string, error) {
+		return adopt(ctx, open, in.Node)
+	}))
 
 	// Anything else is said plainly, because a command surface answering 404 to a verb somebody
 	// expected is indistinguishable from one that is down.
 	mux.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		refuse(w, http.StatusNotFound, fmt.Errorf(
-			"%s %s is not something this mesh can be asked; it accepts POST /assign and "+
-				"POST /unassign", r.Method, r.URL.Path))
+			"%s %s is not something this mesh can be asked; it accepts POST /assign, "+
+				"POST /unassign, POST /take, POST /converge and POST /adopt", r.Method, r.URL.Path))
 	})
 	return mux
 }
@@ -114,11 +124,16 @@ func commands(who Authenticator) http.Handler {
 type request struct {
 	Node   string `json:"node"`
 	Module string `json:"module"`
+	// Yes and Filter are converge's: do it rather than preview it, and which module loads the
+	// mesh's filter.
+	Yes    bool   `json:"yes,omitempty"`
+	Filter string `json:"filter,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // acting is the shape every route shares: authenticate, read, act, answer.
 func acting(
 	who Authenticator,
+	needsModule bool,
 	do func(context.Context, *stores, request) (string, error),
 ) http.HandlerFunc {
 	return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -131,8 +146,12 @@ func acting(
 			refuse(w, http.StatusBadRequest, fmt.Errorf("this is not a request this understands: %w", err))
 			return
 		}
-		if in.Node == "" || in.Module == "" {
+		if in.Node == "" || (needsModule && in.Module == "") {
+			if needsModule {
 				refuse(w, http.StatusBadRequest, errors.New(`both "node" and "module" are needed`))
+			} else {
+				refuse(w, http.StatusBadRequest, errors.New(`"node" is needed`))
+			}
 			return
 		}
 

cmd/mesh-controller/main.go

@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ func run() error {
 		return moduleCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "assign", "unassign":
 		return assignCommand(ctx, args[0], args[1:])
+	case "take":
+		return takeCommand(ctx, args[1:])
+	case "converge":
+		return convergeCommand(ctx, args[1:])
+	case "adopt":
+		return adoptCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "settings":
 		return settingsCommand(ctx, args[1:])
 	case "secret":
@@ -155,6 +161,9 @@ func usage() {
   api --issuer URL [--listen A]  assign and unassign over http, for a surface that is not here
   assign <node> <module>         put a module on a node
   unassign <node> <module>       take it off
+  take <node> <module>           cut a module over on an adopted node, once its data has moved
+  converge <node> [--yes] [--filter nftables]   preview, then make, an adopted node converged
+  adopt <node>                   return a converged node to adopted; what was taken stays taken
   settings set <module> <file>   what a module's config should say, for the whole mesh
   settings set <module> <file> --node <n>   ...or for one machine
   settings clear <module> [--node <n>]      take a layer away

cmd/mesh-controller/plan.go

@@ -318,10 +318,30 @@ const (
 func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	plan catalogue.Resolution, settings catalogue.SettingsBy,
 	gens map[string]catalogue.Generator, choosing Choosing) (sendable, error) {
+	with, record, err := renderingFor(ctx, open, node, plan, settings, gens, choosing)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sendable{}, err
+	}
+	composed, err := plan.Compose(with)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sendable{}, err
+	}
+	// And what was taken on it, said in every declaration it is sent from this one place.
+	adoption, err := adoptionOf(ctx, open.inventory, record, plan, composed)
+	if err != nil {
+		return sendable{}, err
+	}
+	return sendable{Resources: composed.Resources, Adoption: adoption}, nil
+}
+
+// renderingFor is everything a node's declaration is composed with, and the node's record.
+func renderingFor(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
+	plan catalogue.Resolution, settings catalogue.SettingsBy,
+	gens map[string]catalogue.Generator, choosing Choosing) (catalogue.Rendering, inventory.Node, error) {
 	inv := open.inventory
 	grants, err := grantsFor(ctx, open, node)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 	// Where this machine puts what each module needs reachable (novox/hq ADR 0038).
 	//
@@ -334,7 +354,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	if choosing == Reading {
 		held, err := inv.PortsFor(ctx, node)
 		if err != nil {
-			return sendable{}, err
+			return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 		}
 		for _, a := range held {
 			if already[a.Module] == nil {
@@ -358,7 +378,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 			case mayAssign && choosing == Allocating:
 				at, err := inv.PortFor(ctx, node, m.Module, l.Port, l.Fixed)
 				if err != nil {
-					return sendable{}, fmt.Errorf(
+					return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, fmt.Errorf(
 						"%s needs %d reachable on %s and it could not be assigned: %w",
 						m.Module, l.Port, node, err)
 				}
@@ -399,7 +419,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 				}
 			}
 			if err != nil {
-				return sendable{}, err
+				return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 			}
 			if needed[m.Module] == nil {
 				needed[m.Module] = map[string]string{}
@@ -417,7 +437,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 		}
 		issued, meshCA, err := certificateFor(ctx, open, node)
 		if err != nil {
-			return sendable{}, err
+			return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 		}
 		certificate, authority = issued, meshCA
 		break
@@ -430,11 +450,11 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// One reading of the catalogue for the three questions below that resolve the whole mesh.
 	shelf, err := inv.Catalogue(ctx)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 	private, err := onThePrivateNetwork(ctx, inv, shelf)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 
 	// And every machine's name, so a container can reach one. The same set that writes the
@@ -442,7 +462,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// about where another machine is.
 	names, err := namesInTheMesh(ctx, inv, shelf)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 
 	// And every routed name → the node that serves it (novox/hq ADR 0066). Alongside the
@@ -451,7 +471,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// to serve and knows nothing about what they mean.
 	routes, err := routeNamesInTheMesh(ctx, open)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
 	for name, at := range routes {
 		names[name] = at
@@ -480,7 +500,7 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 			continue
 		}
 		if kept, err = inv.OperatorExport(ctx); err != nil {
-			return sendable{}, err
+			return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 		}
 		break
 	}
@@ -489,21 +509,13 @@ func declarationWith(ctx context.Context, open *stores, node string,
 	// the declaration carries openings and the mesh's guard in place of a filter.
 	record, err := inv.NodeByName(ctx, node)
 	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
+		return catalogue.Rendering{}, inventory.Node{}, err
 	}
-	composed, err := plan.Compose(catalogue.Rendering{
+	return catalogue.Rendering{
 		Settings: settings, Generators: gens, Grants: grants, Needed: needed, Ports: ports,
 		Certificate: certificate, Authority: authority, Mesh: private, Names: names,
-		Suffix: overlay.Suffix(), Foundation: foundation, Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted})
-	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
-	}
-	// And what was taken on it, said in every declaration it is sent from this one place.
-	adoption, err := adoptionOf(ctx, inv, record, plan, composed)
-	if err != nil {
-		return sendable{}, err
-	}
-	return sendable{Resources: composed.Resources, Adoption: adoption}, nil
+		Suffix: overlay.Suffix(), Foundation: foundation, Kept: kept, Adopted: record.Adopted,
+	}, record, nil
 }
 
 // routeNamesInTheMesh is every routed name and the address of the node that serves it (novox/hq

internal/catalogue/declaration.go

@@ -244,17 +244,7 @@ func (r Resolution) compose(with Rendering, owner map[string]string) ([]map[stri
 	// Once, from every module's listens -- not per module. A module receiving only its own ports
 	// would write a rule set that closed every other module on the machine. Each module's per-node
 	// exposure settings override its listens' source first (novox/hq ADR 0046).
-	exposure := map[string]map[int]string{}
-	for _, m := range r.Modules {
-		e, err := Exposure(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		if e != nil {
-			exposure[m.Module] = e
-		}
-	}
-	rules, err := r.Filtering(with.Generators, with.Ports, exposure)
+	rules, err := r.Rules(with)
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
@@ -627,6 +617,23 @@ func (r Resolution) guarded(out []map[string]any, owner map[string]string, with
 	return ports
 }
 
+// Rules is the rule set this node's filter is derived from: every module's listens, what was
+// computed for this machine, and each module's per-node exposure. The same answer whether the node
+// is adopted or converged — the one loads it as a filter, the other declares it as openings.
+func (r Resolution) Rules(with Rendering) ([]Rule, error) {
+	exposure := map[string]map[int]string{}
+	for _, m := range r.Modules {
+		e, err := Exposure(m, with.Settings[m.Module])
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if e != nil {
+			exposure[m.Module] = e
+		}
+	}
+	return r.Filtering(with.Generators, with.Ports, exposure)
+}
+
 // Contribution is one module telling the answer to a requirement what it needs from it.
 type Contribution struct {
 	// From is the module that said it, so the provider and a person reading the file can tell