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mesh-controller/internal/catalogue/runtime.go
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jochen 8eb6c3e94a A tool container on the runtime's image is refused once the runtime is registered (hq ADR 0175, to-be 38 WP2.4)
A module declaring tools, a container, and a build on mesh-tools' runtime image is a container whose
purpose is serving tools — the pattern the node's tool runtime retires. Once node-tools is in the
catalogue, registering one is refused by name, with the record that says why; before, it is accepted
as it always was, so a mesh converts in the design's order and nothing is refused before there is
anything to move to. This is the mechanism that keeps the old pattern from returning by habit.

Judged from a repository manifest's own build.on, and for a built manifest — which carries no build
— from what its build stood on, now recorded beside the commit as part of a module's provenance.
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package catalogue
import (
"fmt"
"sort"
"strings"
)
// The node's tool runtime, as the catalogue knows it (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38).
//
// **One module is the runtime.** Where it is assigned, one process per machine serves every assigned
// module's tools and every held seat's verbs, on the host side, from the bundles each module's build
// produced — and no module needs a container to reach the bus with its tools. The name is a constant
// rather than a manifest field because a rule turns on it: the composer places the runtime's process
// where this module is, and registration refuses the old pattern once this module exists.
// RuntimeModule is the module that is the node's tool runtime. Mirrored in the broker package,
// which composes a principal of its own for it; the agreement test there holds the two to one string.
const RuntimeModule = "node-tools"
// BundleRoot is where a machine keeps the tools bundles the mesh delivers to it: under the mesh's
// own directory, beside the daemons the host unpacks there, and never where a package manager also
// writes. One directory per module, one per bundle beneath it, at a path that does not move with
// the version — so the runtime's process names each entrypoint once and is restarted, not
// recomposed, when a bundle changes.
const BundleRoot = "/var/lib/mesh/bundles"
// BundleID names the archive resource that delivers one of a module's bundles; prefixed with the
// module like every resource of its own.
func BundleID(bundle string) string { return "bundle-" + bundle }
// BundlePath is where one module's bundle is unpacked on a machine.
func BundlePath(module, bundle string) string { return BundleRoot + "/" + module + "/" + bundle }
// runtimeHere says whether this node's set includes the runtime module, which is what decides
// whether anything about tools changes on the machine (to-be 38 WP2): until the runtime is assigned,
// a node is sent exactly what it was sent before, bundles included, because a bundle nothing loads
// is bytes nobody reads.
func (r Resolution) runtimeHere() bool {
for _, m := range r.Modules {
if m.Module == RuntimeModule {
return true
}
}
return false
}
// bundleArchives is one archive per tools bundle of a module — a bundle the runtime LOADS something
// from — as the host fetches and unpacks any artifact (novox/hq ADR 0175 §3: a module brings its
// tools as a bundle, delivered by the host like any artifact, never an image). A bundle it loads
// nothing from is run rather than loaded: a daemon, a step, the runtime itself — delivered by the
// process that runs it, and not again here.
//
// The source is the kept reference; the per-resource pass that follows routes it through the
// artifact store as this network reaches it now, as it does every image and archive the mesh built.
func bundleArchives(m Manifest) []map[string]any {
var out []map[string]any
for _, b := range m.Bundles {
if len(b.Loads) == 0 {
continue
}
out = append(out, map[string]any{
"id": BundleID(b.Name), "type": "archive",
"source": b.Source, "digest": b.Digest,
"path": BundlePath(m.Module, b.Name),
})
}
return out
}
// RuntimeProcessID names the one process the mesh composes for a machine's runtime; prefixed with
// the runtime module like a resource of its own, because that module is what the host sees it as.
func RuntimeProcessID() string { return "runtime" }
// RuntimeToolModules is the variable the runtime reads the modules it serves from: one
// `<module>=<entrypoint>` per file it loads, comma-separated — several entries may name one module.
// RuntimeBrokerFile is where it reads the node's credential; RuntimeOperatorAccount and
// RuntimeOperatorHome are the machine's operator account and home, handed to every tool's
// environment (to-be 38 WP1), and absent on a machine with no account.
const (
RuntimeToolModules = "MESH_TOOL_MODULES"
RuntimeBrokerFile = "MESH_BROKER_FILE"
RuntimeOperatorAccount = "MESH_OPERATOR_ACCOUNT"
RuntimeOperatorHome = "MESH_OPERATOR_HOME"
)
// interpreterFor is how a bundle in a language is run: the program the host's unit starts, with the
// bundle's entrypoint after it. The one thing the composer takes from a language, and said here
// rather than in a manifest because the runtime's process is the mesh's to compose (to-be 38 WP3).
func interpreterFor(language string) (string, error) {
switch language {
case "typescript":
return "node", nil
}
return "", fmt.Errorf(
"%s is written in %q, and the mesh knows no interpreter to run a %q bundle with",
RuntimeModule, language, language)
}
// runtimeProcess is the one process a machine runs the node's tool runtime as (novox/hq ADR 0175,
// to-be 38 WP2.3): the runtime module's own bundle, run by its language's interpreter, told which
// modules it serves and from which files, where its credential is, and who the machine's operator
// is — and restarted when any bundle it loads or the credential it holds changes.
//
// Composed from the placed manifests, so the credential's path is where this node puts it. The
// runtime runs as the operator's account when the machine has one, which is what lets a tool that
// needs root escalate as the operator would (ADR 0175 §4); on a machine with no account it runs as
// root, and the two operator words are not set.
func (r Resolution) runtimeProcess(with Rendering) (map[string]any, error) {
var runtime *Manifest
for i := range r.Modules {
if r.Modules[i].Module == RuntimeModule {
runtime = &r.Modules[i]
}
}
if runtime == nil {
return nil, nil
}
if len(runtime.Bundles) != 1 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"%s is assigned to %s and its build produced %d bundle(s); the runtime is one bundle "+
"the mesh runs, so the module declares exactly one (novox/hq to-be 38)",
RuntimeModule, r.Node, len(runtime.Bundles))
}
bundle := runtime.Bundles[0]
if len(bundle.Entrypoints) != 1 {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"%s's bundle %q names %d entrypoint(s); the runtime is run from one, so the module "+
"declares exactly one (novox/hq to-be 38)", RuntimeModule, bundle.Name, len(bundle.Entrypoints))
}
interpreter, err := interpreterFor(bundle.Language)
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}
credential, declared := runtime.OwnSecrets["broker"]
if !declared {
return nil, fmt.Errorf(
"%s declares no own secret named broker, and the node's credential is delivered there: "+
"a module that speaks on the bus declares \"own-secrets\": {\"broker\": <path>}",
RuntimeModule)
}
// What it serves, and from which files: every module on this machine that composes here, in
// name order, each bundle it loads from in the order the manifest gave. A module left out of
// the declaration — a filter on an adopted machine — is left out of this too, or the runtime
// would be told to load files that were never delivered.
var served []string
var restartOn []string
for _, m := range r.Modules {
if with.Adopted && m.Filtering != nil {
continue
}
for _, b := range m.Bundles {
if len(b.Loads) == 0 {
continue
}
for _, load := range b.Loads {
served = append(served, m.Module+"="+BundlePath(m.Module, b.Name)+"/"+load)
}
restartOn = append(restartOn, m.Module+"."+BundleID(b.Name))
}
}
sort.Strings(served)
restartOn = append(restartOn, RuntimeModule+"."+NeedID("broker"))
sort.Strings(restartOn)
env := map[string]string{
RuntimeToolModules: strings.Join(served, ","),
RuntimeBrokerFile: credential.Path,
}
process := map[string]any{
"id": RuntimeModule + "." + RuntimeProcessID(), "type": "process", "name": RuntimeModule,
"source": bundle.Source, "digest": bundle.Digest,
"run": []any{interpreter, bundle.Entrypoints[0]},
"env": env,
"restart-on": toAny(restartOn),
}
if r.Account != "" {
env[RuntimeOperatorAccount] = r.Account
env[RuntimeOperatorHome] = accountHomeOf(r.Account, r.AccountHome)
process["user"] = r.Account
}
// Routed through the artifact store as this network reaches it now, like everything the mesh
// built; refused with the same words when there is no store to route through.
if err := artifactsInto(process, RuntimeModule, with); err != nil {
return nil, err
}
return process, nil
}
func toAny(in []string) []any {
out := make([]any, 0, len(in))
for _, s := range in {
out = append(out, s)
}
return out
}
// RuntimeImageModule and RuntimeImageArtifact name the image every per-module tool container was
// built on: the tool runtime's own runtime image. With the runtime a module of its own, that image
// stays the way a module's SERVICE may be built and stops being the way tools reach a node (ADR 0175).
const (
RuntimeImageModule = "mesh-tools"
RuntimeImageArtifact = "runtime"
)
// ToolContainerOnTheRuntime says why a manifest is the pattern ADR 0175 retires — a module whose tools
// are served from a container built on the tool runtime's image — or nothing when it is not. Judged
// from the manifest's own `build.on` when it is a repository manifest, and from what its build stood
// on when it is a built one, because a resolved manifest carries no build. The gate itself is
// registration's (to-be 38 WP2.4): once the runtime module is in the catalogue, this is refused.
//
// Three things must hold, and each alone is fine: declaring tools (a bundle does that); a container
// (a module's service may well be one); building on the runtime's image (a service written against
// the SDK may). All three is a container whose purpose is tools, which the runtime now serves.
func ToolContainerOnTheRuntime(m Manifest, against []string) string {
if len(m.Tools) == 0 {
return ""
}
container := false
for _, r := range m.Resources {
if fmt.Sprint(r["type"]) == "container" {
container = true
}
}
if !container {
return ""
}
onTheRuntime := false
if m.Build != nil {
for _, on := range m.Build.On {
if on.Module == RuntimeImageModule && on.Artifact == RuntimeImageArtifact {
onTheRuntime = true
}
}
}
for _, ref := range against {
path, kept := InArtifactStore(Recorded(ref))
if kept && strings.HasPrefix(path, RuntimeImageModule+"/"+RuntimeImageArtifact+"@") {
onTheRuntime = true
}
}
if !onTheRuntime {
return ""
}
return fmt.Sprintf(
"%s declares tools and a container built on %s's %s image — a container whose purpose is "+
"serving tools. The node's tool runtime (%s) serves every module's tools from its bundle "+
"now (novox/hq ADR 0175, to-be 38); declare the tools as a bundle and drop the container",
m.Module, RuntimeImageModule, RuntimeImageArtifact, RuntimeModule)
}