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mesh-admin ca7c4a5915 Merge pull request 'A container may log to the journal (hq ADR 0179)' (#73) from feat/the-intrusion-seat-serves-its-verbs into main 2026-10-02 15:04:02 +00:00
jschoubben b30d9c5b5a A container may log to the journal (hq ADR 0179)
A jail reads a log; a container's output went to a file of the runtime's own under a path that
changes on recreate, so no jail could read a container's service. logging: journald runs the
container with the journal as its driver, named in the spec so moving it recreates it; any other
place is refused.
2026-10-02 17:02:49 +02:00
mesh-admin 5b73e04192 Merge pull request 'A package may be declared absent, and an uninstalled front end is retired for good (hq ADR 0175)' (#71) from feat/the-found-front-end-is-uninstalled into main 2026-10-02 14:29:17 +00:00
jschoubben f57386cdea A package may be declared absent, and an uninstalled front end is retired for good (hq ADR 0175)
absent: true on a package has the host remove it through the machine's own
package manager when it is installed and leave alone a machine that never had
it; read back either way. Undeclaring a package still removes nothing. A
found firewall whose command is gone is recorded as removed, said once, and
asked nothing of.
2026-10-02 16:28:27 +02:00
mesh-admin f92dd3e286 Merge pull request 'Cite hq ADR 0170, not 0169: the firewall seat's record was renumbered' (#70) from fix/adr-0170-cited into main 2026-10-02 12:53:09 +00:00
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@@ -1407,6 +1407,25 @@ func applyPackage(ctx context.Context, sys system.System, r *declaration.Package
if err != nil {
return out, err
}
if r.Absent {
// Declared absent (novox/hq ADR 0175): removed when it is here, left alone when it is not.
if !installed {
out.Action = "unchanged"
out.Detail = "not installed, as declared"
return out, nil
}
if err := sys.RemovePackage(ctx, run, r.Package); err != nil {
return out, fmt.Errorf("removing %s: %w", r.Package, err)
}
if still, err := sys.PackageInstalled(ctx, run, r.Package); err != nil {
return out, err
} else if still {
return out, fmt.Errorf("%s was removed without error and the package database still has it", r.Package)
}
out.Action = "removed"
out.Detail = "declared absent; its configuration is left where the package manager leaves it"
return out, nil
}
if installed {
out.Action = "unchanged"
out.Detail = "already installed"
@@ -1588,6 +1607,10 @@ func containerSpecReading(r *declaration.Container, declares, reads map[string]s
for _, c := range r.Capabilities {
b.WriteString("cap " + c + "\n")
}
// And where it logs (ADR 0179): the runtime cannot move a running container's output.
if r.Logging != "" {
b.WriteString("log " + r.Logging + "\n")
}
// The cadence is part of what was declared, so a changed schedule is a changed spec — the marker
// moves and the install is reported "updated" and re-established. Added only when present, so no
// ordinary container's or run-once step's digest moves for a field it does not set.
@@ -1785,6 +1808,11 @@ func applyContainer(ctx context.Context, r *declaration.Container, run Runner,
for _, c := range r.Capabilities {
args = append(args, "--cap-add", c)
}
if r.Logging != "" {
// The journal keeps the container's name on every line (CONTAINER_NAME), which is what a
// jail matches on (novox/hq ADR 0179); `docker logs` keeps working against the journal.
args = append(args, "--log-driver", r.Logging)
}
for _, d := range r.Dns {
args = append(args, "--dns", d)
}
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@@ -173,3 +173,42 @@ func TestACapabilityReachesTheRuntimeAndTheSpec(t *testing.T) {
t.Fatal("a capability is not part of the container's spec")
}
}
// A package may be declared absent (novox/hq ADR 0175): removed when it is installed, read back,
// left alone when it is not.
func TestAPackageDeclaredAbsentIsRemovedWhenPresentAndLeftWhenNot(t *testing.T) {
installed := true
var ran []string
run := func(_ context.Context, name string, args ...string) (string, error) {
ran = append(ran, name+" "+strings.Join(args, " "))
if name != "pacman" {
return "", nil
}
switch args[0] {
case "-Q":
if args[1] == "pacman" || installed {
return args[1] + " 1.0\n", nil
}
return "", errors.New("package not found")
case "-R":
installed = false
}
return "", nil
}
d := parseTrusted(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[{"id":"front-end","type":"package","package":"ufw","absent":true}]}`)
report, _, err := Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, run, nil, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if report.Outcomes[0].Action != "removed" || !strings.Contains(strings.Join(ran, "\n"), "pacman -R --noconfirm ufw") {
t.Fatalf("an installed package declared absent was not removed: %+v\n%v", report.Outcomes[0], ran)
}
ran = nil
report, _, err = Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, run, nil, nil)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if report.Outcomes[0].Action != "unchanged" || strings.Contains(strings.Join(ran, "\n"), "-R") {
t.Fatalf("a package already absent was touched: %+v\n%v", report.Outcomes[0], ran)
}
}
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@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
package apply
import (
"context"
"strings"
"testing"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/store"
)
// A container declared to log to the journal is run with the journal as its log driver, and the
// place it logs is part of its spec, so moving it recreates the container (novox/hq ADR 0179).
func TestAContainerLoggingToTheJournalIsRunThatWayAndRecreatedWhenMoved(t *testing.T) {
pinned := "postgres@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)
var ran []string
run := func(_ context.Context, cmd string, args ...string) (string, error) {
if cmd == "docker" && len(args) > 0 && args[0] == "run" {
ran = args
return "deadbeef\n", nil
}
return "", nil
}
d := parseTrusted(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[
{"id":"front","type":"container","name":"front","image":"`+pinned+`","logging":"journald"}
]}`)
_, _, _ = Apply(context.Background(), archHost(t), d, store.State{}, store.OriginCarried, run, nil, nil)
sent := false
for i, a := range ran {
if a == "--log-driver" && i+1 < len(ran) && ran[i+1] == "journald" {
sent = true
}
}
if !sent {
t.Fatalf("the container's output was not sent to the journal: %v", ran)
}
with := d.Resources[0].(*declaration.Container)
without := *with
without.Logging = ""
if containerSpec(with, inputs{}) == containerSpec(&without, inputs{}) {
t.Fatal("where a container logs is not part of its spec, so moving it would not recreate it")
}
}
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@@ -76,6 +76,16 @@ func retireFirewall(ctx context.Context, d *declaration.Declaration, origin stri
if origin != store.OriginDeclared || d.Adoption != nil || rec == nil || rec.Kind != string(firewall.UFW) || !rec.WasActive {
return "", nil
}
if !firewall.Installed(ctx, run) {
// Uninstalled (novox/hq ADR 0175): retired for good, by the module that replaced it. Said
// once, and nothing is asked of a command that is not there.
if rec.RetiredBy != firewall.RetiredRemoved {
rec.RetiredBy = firewall.RetiredRemoved
log(" the found firewall (ufw) is no longer installed; the mesh's filter is what filters this machine")
return "removed: ufw is no longer installed; the mesh's filter is what filters this machine", nil
}
return "", nil
}
active := firewall.Active(ctx, run)
if !active && !(rec.Forward != nil && !rec.DisabledByMesh) {
// Inactive, and either the mesh's doing already or nobody's recorded here: said as found,
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@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
"path/filepath"
"strings"
"testing"
"time"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/declaration"
"github.com/novox/mesh-host/internal/store"
@@ -522,3 +523,33 @@ func TestUfwIsNotRetiredUntilTheMeshsOwnFilterIsLoaded(t *testing.T) {
t.Errorf("ufw was not retired once the mesh's filter was loaded: active %v, %+v", u.active, state.Firewall)
}
}
// A front end that is no longer installed is recorded as removed, said once, and asked nothing of
// (novox/hq ADR 0175).
func TestAnUninstalledFrontEndIsRetiredForGood(t *testing.T) {
dir := t.TempDir()
u := &ufwMachine{installed: false, ruleset: "table inet mesh\n"}
known := store.State{Firewall: &store.FoundFirewall{Kind: "ufw", WasActive: true, DisabledByMesh: true,
RetiredBy: "mesh", FoundAt: time.Now()}}
converged := parse(t, `{"declaration":1,"resources":[`+withConf(dir)+`]}`)
report, state, err := applyWith(t, converged, known, u.run)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if state.Firewall.RetiredBy != "removed" || !strings.Contains(report.Firewall, "no longer installed") {
t.Fatalf("record %+v, said %q", state.Firewall, report.Firewall)
}
u.asked = nil
report, _, err = applyWith(t, converged, state, u.run)
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if report.Firewall != "" {
t.Errorf("said again: %q", report.Firewall)
}
for _, a := range u.asked {
if strings.HasPrefix(a, "ufw") && a != "ufw status" {
t.Errorf("asked something of a front end that is not there: %v", u.asked)
}
}
}
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@@ -870,6 +870,12 @@ type Package struct {
ID string `json:"id"`
Type Type `json:"type"`
Package string `json:"package"`
// Absent declares that the package is NOT installed (novox/hq ADR 0175): the host removes it
// when it is, and leaves a machine that never had it alone. For the one case a module replaces
// software the machine was found with and the operator has decided it does not come back — the
// firewall front end a converged machine's filter module retired. Nothing to undo when the
// declaration drops it: the host does not install what a declaration stopped saying is absent.
Absent bool `json:"absent,omitempty"`
}
func (p *Package) Identity() string { return p.ID }
@@ -946,6 +952,14 @@ type Container struct {
// container; a privileged container stays undeclarable.
Capabilities []string `json:"capabilities,omitempty"`
// Logging names where the runtime sends this container's output: "journald" sends it to the
// machine's journal, under the container's name, where what reads the machine's logs — its
// intrusion prevention first of all (novox/hq ADR 0179) — can read it the way it reads the
// machine's own services. Empty keeps the runtime's default, which is a file of the runtime's
// own that nothing but the runtime reads. Part of the spec: a container that logs elsewhere
// is a different container, and the runtime cannot change a running one's driver.
Logging string `json:"logging,omitempty"`
// Networks are networks this container also joins once created, by name — a found network a
// per-machine setting keeps for a taken container (novox/hq ADR 0163, rule 4), so a
// neighbour that resolves it there keeps resolving it until the neighbour is taken too.
@@ -1051,6 +1065,10 @@ func (c *Container) validate(where string, _ bool) []string {
"capability's name (CAP_NET_ADMIN or NET_ADMIN)")
}
}
if c.Logging != "" && c.Logging != "journald" {
problems = append(problems, where+": logging is "+strconv.Quote(c.Logging)+", and the only place a "+
"container's output can be sent besides the runtime's own file is \"journald\"")
}
for _, n := range c.Networks {
problems = append(problems, (&Network{Name: n}).validate(where+": networks", false)...)
if n == c.Network {
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@@ -524,3 +524,24 @@ func TestACapabilityIsNamedOrRefused(t *testing.T) {
}
}
}
// A container may send its output to the machine's journal, and nowhere else but the runtime's own
// file (novox/hq ADR 0179): what reads the machine's logs then reads the container's too.
func TestAContainerMayLogToTheJournalAndNowhereElse(t *testing.T) {
image := "postgres@sha256:" + strings.Repeat("a", 64)
d, err := Parse([]byte(`{"declaration":1,"resources":[
{"id":"front","type":"container","name":"front","image":"` + image + `","logging":"journald"}
]}`))
if err != nil {
t.Fatal(err)
}
if got := d.Resources[0].(*Container).Logging; got != "journald" {
t.Fatalf("logging read as %q", got)
}
for _, bad := range []string{`"syslog"`, `"none"`, `"json-file"`} {
if _, err := Parse([]byte(`{"declaration":1,"resources":[
{"id":"front","type":"container","name":"front","image":"` + image + `","logging":` + bad + `}]}`)); err == nil {
t.Errorf("%s was accepted as a place to log", bad)
}
}
}
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@@ -319,8 +319,17 @@ func Active(ctx context.Context, run Runner) bool {
return err == nil && statusActive(out)
}
// Installed says whether ufw is on this machine at all: a command that is not there is a front end
// that was uninstalled (novox/hq ADR 0175), not one that is silent.
func Installed(ctx context.Context, run Runner) bool {
_, err := run(ctx, "ufw", "status")
return !missing(err)
}
// Retirements of a found firewall, as the host records them.
const (
RetiredByMesh = "mesh"
RetiredFoundSo = "found-inactive"
// RetiredRemoved is a front end uninstalled by the module that replaced it (ADR 0175).
RetiredRemoved = "removed"
)
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@@ -46,6 +46,11 @@ func (a alpine) PackageInstalled(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) (
return strings.TrimSpace(out) != "", nil
}
func (alpine) RemovePackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
_, err := run(ctx, "apk", "del", name)
return err
}
func (alpine) InstallPackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
_, err := run(ctx, "apk", "add", "--no-cache", name)
return err
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@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ func (a android) InstallPackage(context.Context, Runner, string) error {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: package", ErrUnsupported)
}
func (a android) RemovePackage(context.Context, Runner, string) error {
return fmt.Errorf("%w: package", ErrUnsupported)
}
func (a android) ServiceState(context.Context, Runner, string) (string, error) {
return "", fmt.Errorf("%w: service (init is not reachable without root)", ErrUnsupported)
}
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@@ -39,6 +39,14 @@ func (a arch) PackageInstalled(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) (bo
return true, nil
}
// RemovePackage removes one package and nothing it depends on: `-R`, not `-Rs`, because what else
// relied on a dependency is not this declaration's to know. pacman keeps a configuration file the
// operator changed as `.pacsave`, which is what "never flushed" comes to once the front end is gone.
func (arch) RemovePackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
_, err := run(ctx, "pacman", "-R", "--noconfirm", name)
return err
}
func (arch) InstallPackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error {
out, err := run(ctx, "pacman", "-S", "--noconfirm", "--needed", name)
if err == nil {
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@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ type System interface {
PackageInstalled(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) (bool, error)
InstallPackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error
// RemovePackage uninstalls one package, leaving its dependencies and anything the operator
// changed in its configuration where the package manager leaves them (novox/hq ADR 0175).
RemovePackage(ctx context.Context, run Runner, name string) error
// ServiceState is "running" or "stopped". A unit that does not exist is an error, never
// "stopped" — reporting absence as satisfaction is the fault this host exists to prevent.