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jschoubben 7d033ad9f6 Publish to the registry, and a command that builds a repository
One store, and it is the registry the bootstrap already pulls from. An
OCI registry is a content-addressed blob store that also understands
images: PUT a blob and it is retrievable at /v2/<name>/blobs/sha256:… for
ever, by digest. An archive is a content-addressed blob.

A second store beside it was considered and is the right answer for
objects that are mutable, need per-reader access, or are not build output
— somebody's uploads, a backup, a thing with a lifecycle. None of that
describes a digest-pinned archive, and running a second service to hold
one kind of immutable blob is two things to run, two to back up, and two
ways for an artifact to be missing. Overturnable by reading: the manifest
carries a URL and a digest, and neither says what served it.

`build <repository>` clones, reads module.json, builds what it declares,
publishes, and records the manifest with the commit it came from. It is a
command rather than something the control plane does on its own, because
building runs things on a machine and what the control plane may send a
machine is bounded by the declaration language. This is the shape the
builder module takes when it is given work over the broker.

Proven end to end on a real repository and a real registry: a shell
module with a package, a user and a dotfile archive built, published,
fetched back at the digest it declared, rebuilt to the same digest, and
its manifest accepted by the host's own parser — including `user` and
`archive`, which did not exist this morning.

A tag is never accepted as a pin, and a blob already stored is not sent
again — it is named by its content, so re-uploading asks the registry to
store what it already has under the name it already has.
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package builder
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"fmt"
"io"
"net/http"
"strings"
)
// Where built artifacts go.
//
// **One store, and it is the registry the bootstrap already pulls from.** An OCI registry is a
// content-addressed blob store that happens to also understand images: `PUT` a blob and it is
// retrievable at `/v2/<name>/blobs/sha256:…` for ever, by digest, over plain HTTP. An archive is
// a content-addressed blob. So it goes there.
//
// The alternative considered was a second store beside it — S3-shaped, buckets, signed URLs. It
// is the right answer for objects that are *mutable*, or need per-reader access, or are not build
// output: somebody's uploads, a backup, a thing with a lifecycle. None of that describes a
// digest-pinned archive, and standing up a second service to hold one kind of immutable blob
// means two things to run, two things to back up and two ways for an artifact to be missing.
//
// **This is a decision that can be overturned by reading**: if something needs an object store
// for reasons other than build artifacts, it should have one, and archives can move to it without
// anything else changing — the manifest carries a URL and a digest, and neither says what served
// it.
// Registry publishes to an OCI registry over plain HTTP.
//
// Plain HTTP because the registry the mesh runs is reached over the private network, which is
// already the encrypted, authenticated thing. A second layer inside it would be certificates to
// issue and rotate for no property the first does not have.
type Registry struct {
// Address is host:port, as a machine will fetch from.
Address string
// Run is how docker is invoked, so a test does not need one.
Run Runner
// HTTP is the client used for blobs.
HTTP *http.Client
}
// PublishImage pushes a locally built image and returns a reference pinned by digest.
//
// The digest is read back from the registry's own answer rather than computed here. What matters
// is what the registry will serve for that reference, and only it can say.
func (r Registry) PublishImage(ctx context.Context, localTag, repository string) (string, error) {
remote := r.Address + "/" + repository
if _, err := r.Run(ctx, "", "docker", "tag", localTag, remote); err != nil {
return "", err
}
if _, err := r.Run(ctx, "", "docker", "push", remote); err != nil {
return "", err
}
out, err := r.Run(ctx, "", "docker", "inspect", "--format", "{{index .RepoDigests 0}}", remote)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("pushed %s and cannot read back what it was pinned as: %w", remote, err)
}
pinned := strings.TrimSpace(out)
if !strings.Contains(pinned, "@sha256:") {
// A tag is not a pin. It can be made to point at something else, and this file is applied
// on machines with no mesh to ask about anything (novox/hq ADR 0006).
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s came back as %q, which is not pinned by digest", remote, pinned)
}
return pinned, nil
}
// PublishArchive stores bytes as a blob and returns where to fetch them from.
//
// Two steps, which is the registry's own protocol: ask for somewhere to put it, then put it there
// naming the digest. The registry verifies the digest itself, so a blob that arrived corrupted is
// refused by the thing storing it rather than by the machine unpacking it a week later.
func (r Registry) PublishArchive(ctx context.Context, repository string, body []byte, digest string) (string, error) {
base := "http://" + r.Address + "/v2/" + repository
final := base + "/blobs/" + digest
// Already there. Blobs are immutable and named by their content, so this is not an
// optimisation — re-uploading would be asking the registry to store what it already has under
// the name it already has.
if there, err := r.has(ctx, final); err != nil {
return "", err
} else if there {
return final, nil
}
start, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, base+"/blobs/uploads/", nil)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
begun, err := r.client().Do(start)
if err != nil {
return "", fmt.Errorf("cannot start an upload to %s: %w", base, err)
}
defer begun.Body.Close()
if begun.StatusCode != http.StatusAccepted {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s answered %s when asked where to put a blob", base, begun.Status)
}
where := begun.Header.Get("Location")
if where == "" {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s accepted an upload and said nowhere to put it", base)
}
if strings.HasPrefix(where, "/") {
where = "http://" + r.Address + where
}
put, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPut,
where+separator(where)+"digest="+digest, bytes.NewReader(body))
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
put.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
done, err := r.client().Do(put)
if err != nil {
return "", err
}
defer done.Body.Close()
if done.StatusCode != http.StatusCreated {
said, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(done.Body, 4096))
return "", fmt.Errorf("%s refused the blob: %s %s", base, done.Status, strings.TrimSpace(string(said)))
}
return final, nil
}
func (r Registry) has(ctx context.Context, url string) (bool, error) {
request, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodHead, url, nil)
if err != nil {
return false, err
}
response, err := r.client().Do(request)
if err != nil {
return false, fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the registry at %s: %w", r.Address, err)
}
defer response.Body.Close()
return response.StatusCode == http.StatusOK, nil
}
func (r Registry) client() *http.Client {
if r.HTTP != nil {
return r.HTTP
}
return http.DefaultClient
}
// separator is whether the upload location already carries a query.
func separator(where string) string {
if strings.Contains(where, "?") {
return "&"
}
return "?"
}