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mesh-host/examples/substrate-first-node.lock
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jschoubben 1bc97ed50d A service can be declared to reflect a file
Because a running service does not re-read its configuration. Replace the file,
find the service running, do nothing -- and the machine keeps behaving as it
did while every check passes, because the file is right and the service is up.

That is not hypothetical. It is how a third node joining a mesh left the first
two carrying a private network that no longer existed, with every part of it
reporting success.

Declared state rather than a command: the declaration says the running service
must reflect these files, and the host works out that it does not. A command to
restart would be an action, and the link may not carry one -- the host refused
precisely that when I tried it, correctly, which is how this shape was arrived
at rather than the other.

Scoped to one apply. A change from an earlier one has already been reflected,
and restarting for it every time would make a steady machine bounce its
services for ever.

Also: the node generates its overlay key at enrolment and reports the public
half, and the store waits three minutes rather than one for the database --
sixty seconds is not enough for a cold machine running initdb, and it failed
that way three times, which is the worst kind of flake because a second run
always fixed it.
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// substrate-first-node.lock — what a machine must be before a mesh exists.
//
// Steps 0 to 5 of the bootstrap (novox/hq 03-DESIGN/01-to-be/07-the-substrate.md): a container
// runtime, a store, a database per context, that context's schema, and the broker.
//
// It stops before step 6, where the control plane runs.
//
// The broker generates its OWN certificate, in its own image, into a volume it then mounts read
// only. Self-signed, because at this moment there is no mesh to issue one and no public name to
// obtain one for -- and it does not matter, because what a joining node checks is the fingerprint
// pinned in its token, not a chain or a name (novox/hq ADR 0004). The subject is decoration.
//
// PINNED BY DIGEST, and the digest is not decoration: a tag can be made to point at a different
// image, and this file is applied on a machine with no mesh to ask about anything. These digests
// belong to the registry the lab raises, which is what a real node pulls from anyway — what is
// required is a reference that is exact and cannot move (novox/hq ADR 0006).
//
// The store waits up to three minutes rather than one. A machine that has just pulled the
// image and is running initdb for the first time can take longer than sixty seconds, and it
// failed that way three times in the lab -- a flaky bootstrap that a second run always fixed,
// which is the worst kind because it teaches people to run things twice.
//
// The store's data is a NAMED VOLUME, not a directory on the machine. A directory the host
// creates is owned by root, and the database runs as somebody else inside the container — so it
// could not write, and the container crash-looped. A named volume lets the image set up its own
// ownership, and outlives the container, which is what you want for the thing holding the mesh's
// state.
{
"declaration": 1,
"resources": [
{
"id": "container-runtime",
"type": "package",
"package": "docker"
},
{
"id": "container-runtime-running",
"type": "service",
"unit": "docker.service",
"state": "running",
"boot": "enabled"
},
{
"id": "store",
"type": "container",
"name": "mesh-store",
"image": "192.0.2.250:5000/postgres@sha256:7abf537131b66ed5af448d90653abf1679b0c7e9a1f07efdd4c3108a401b259a",
"env": {
"POSTGRES_PASSWORD": "bootstrap",
"PGDATA": "/var/lib/postgresql/data/pgdata"
},
"ports": ["127.0.0.1:5432:5432"],
"volumes": ["mesh-store-data:/var/lib/postgresql/data"]
},
{
"id": "store-ready",
"type": "action",
"in": "mesh-store",
"command": ["sh", "-c", "for i in $(seq 1 180); do pg_isready -U postgres >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0; sleep 1; done; exit 1"],
"verify": ["pg_isready", "-U", "postgres"]
},
{
"id": "inventory-database",
"type": "action",
"in": "mesh-store",
"command": ["sh", "-c", "psql -U postgres -c 'CREATE DATABASE inventory'"],
"verify": ["sh", "-c", "psql -U postgres -lqt | cut -d'|' -f1 | grep -qw inventory"]
},
{
"id": "identity-database",
"type": "action",
"in": "mesh-store",
"command": ["sh", "-c", "psql -U postgres -c 'CREATE DATABASE identity'"],
"verify": ["sh", "-c", "psql -U postgres -lqt | cut -d'|' -f1 | grep -qw identity"]
},
{
"id": "context-schemas",
"type": "action",
"command": ["docker", "run", "--rm", "--network", "container:mesh-store",
"-e", "MESH_STORE_INVENTORY=postgres://postgres:bootstrap@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory?sslmode=disable",
"-e", "MESH_STORE_IDENTITY=postgres://postgres:bootstrap@127.0.0.1:5432/identity?sslmode=disable",
"192.0.2.250:5000/mesh-control@sha256:c0f56edfb629ecb6a69b991b47abdbbb31c0da7dd3ce4db887d94efaa0b21632",
"migrate"],
"verify": ["sh", "-c", "docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d inventory -tAc \"select to_regclass('public.node')\" | grep -qx node && docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d identity -tAc \"select to_regclass('public.signing_key')\" | grep -qx signing_key"]
},
{
"id": "broker-certificate",
"type": "action",
"command": ["docker", "run", "--rm", "--entrypoint", "sh", "-v", "mesh-broker-tls:/tls",
"192.0.2.250:5000/cloudamqp/lavinmq@sha256:b117c254e6e269a29db479e6b410ca4e46e035b4981e49d24b159673ef09d336",
"-c", "test -f /tls/tls.crt || (openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:2048 -nodes -keyout /tls/tls.key -out /tls/tls.crt -days 3650 -subj '/CN=mesh-broker' >/dev/null 2>&1 && chmod 644 /tls/tls.crt && chmod 600 /tls/tls.key)"],
"verify": ["docker", "run", "--rm", "--entrypoint", "sh", "-v", "mesh-broker-tls:/tls",
"192.0.2.250:5000/cloudamqp/lavinmq@sha256:b117c254e6e269a29db479e6b410ca4e46e035b4981e49d24b159673ef09d336",
"-c", "test -s /tls/tls.crt && openssl x509 -in /tls/tls.crt -noout"]
},
{
"id": "broker",
"type": "container",
"name": "mesh-broker",
"image": "192.0.2.250:5000/cloudamqp/lavinmq@sha256:b117c254e6e269a29db479e6b410ca4e46e035b4981e49d24b159673ef09d336",
"ports": ["5671:5671", "127.0.0.1:5672:5672", "127.0.0.1:15672:15672"],
"volumes": ["mesh-broker-data:/var/lib/lavinmq", "mesh-broker-tls:/tls:ro"],
"args": ["--amqps-port=5671", "--cert=/tls/tls.crt", "--key=/tls/tls.key"]
},
{
"id": "broker-ready",
"type": "action",
"in": "mesh-broker",
"command": ["sh", "-c", "for i in $(seq 1 60); do lavinmqctl status >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit 0; sleep 1; done; exit 1"],
"verify": ["lavinmqctl", "status"]
},
{
"id": "control-plane",
"type": "container",
"name": "mesh-control",
"image": "192.0.2.250:5000/mesh-control@sha256:c0f56edfb629ecb6a69b991b47abdbbb31c0da7dd3ce4db887d94efaa0b21632",
"network": "host",
"args": ["serve"],
"volumes": ["mesh-broker-tls:/broker-tls:ro"],
"env": {
"MESH_STORE_INVENTORY": "postgres://postgres:bootstrap@127.0.0.1:5432/inventory?sslmode=disable",
"MESH_STORE_IDENTITY": "postgres://postgres:bootstrap@127.0.0.1:5432/identity?sslmode=disable",
"MESH_BROKER_AMQP": "amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672/",
"MESH_BROKER_MANAGEMENT": "http://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:15672",
"MESH_BROKER_ADDRESS": "192.0.2.10:5671",
"MESH_BROKER_CERTIFICATE": "/broker-tls/tls.crt"
}
}
]
}