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mesh-host/internal/link/enrol.go
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jschoubben a488c76b5e A node holds its link open, and applies what the mesh signs
The loop the whole thing exists for: told, apply, report.

`run` holds one outbound connection open and consumes the node's own queue.
Every declaration is verified against the control plane's signing key before a
byte of it is read as an instruction -- not once at connect, every time. The
transport being pinned is a different question from the instruction being
genuine, and pinning only the first would make the second transitive: a
compromised broker could forge declarations, and this host applies whatever the
link delivers.

Malformed and forged are reported differently, because ADR 0004 requires a host
to tell "this is not from the mesh I joined" from "this is broken". One means
somebody is trying and the other means something needs fixing.

A node now keeps what it needs to come back on its own: the broker's address
and fingerprint, the signing key it believes, and its own broker password --
which the mesh issues at enrolment to replace the token's secret, so the
one-time thing stays one-time and the credential it holds for years is not the
one that was pasted into a terminal.

Verified in the lab end to end. The node enrolled, held its link, received a
signed declaration and applied it -- the file is on the machine with the right
contents, and the host's own record lists both resources.

That run also found issue 010, which is recorded in novox/hq: the declaration
removed every container on the machine, including the control plane that sent
it. Correct reconciliation, shared store, and the first thing that happens.
2026-08-29 16:23:27 +02:00

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package link
import (
"context"
"encoding/json"
"errors"
"fmt"
"net/url"
"time"
amqp "github.com/rabbitmq/amqp091-go"
)
// The wire format shared with the control plane, which defines it separately because this binary
// requires nothing present and does not import it. A test on each side asserts the field names.
const (
Exchange = "mesh"
KeyEnrol = "enrol"
)
// QueueFor is the queue this node consumes from — the only one its account may read.
func QueueFor(node string) string { return "node." + node }
// EnrolRequest is what this node says when joining.
type EnrolRequest struct {
Node string `json:"node"`
Secret string `json:"secret"`
PublicKey []byte `json:"public_key"`
Profile map[string]any `json:"profile,omitempty"`
}
// EnrolReply is what the mesh says back.
type EnrolReply struct {
Accepted bool `json:"accepted"`
Node string `json:"node,omitempty"`
Queue string `json:"queue,omitempty"`
// What this node keeps so it can come back on its own. Without these a restart would need a
// person with a new token, which would make disconnection a crisis rather than the ordinary
// situation novox/hq ADR 0004 says it is.
Password string `json:"password,omitempty"`
Broker string `json:"broker,omitempty"`
Fingerprint string `json:"fingerprint,omitempty"`
Signer []byte `json:"signer,omitempty"`
Refusal string `json:"refusal,omitempty"`
}
// ErrRefused is what a node gets when the mesh will not have it.
var ErrRefused = errors.New("the mesh refused this enrolment")
// Enrol presents this node's key and its one-time secret, and waits to be told it is known.
//
// The broker has already authenticated this connection: the account was created when the token
// was issued and the secret is its password. So this is not how the node gets in — it is what it
// says once it is in, and the secret travels again because the control plane must not have to ask
// the broker who connected.
func Enrol(ctx context.Context, address, pin, node, secret string, public []byte,
profile map[string]any, timeout time.Duration) (EnrolReply, error) {
config, err := PinnedConfig(pin)
if err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, err
}
// The account name is the node's, and the password is the token's secret. Escaped because a
// name or secret containing a colon or an at-sign would otherwise change which host this
// connects to — a credential silently redirecting a connection is the worst shape this could
// take.
dsn := fmt.Sprintf("amqps://%s:%s@%s/",
url.QueryEscape(node), url.QueryEscape(secret), address)
conn, err := amqp.DialConfig(dsn, amqp.Config{
TLSClientConfig: config,
Dial: amqp.DefaultDial(timeout),
})
if err != nil {
if errors.Is(err, ErrWrongCertificate) {
return EnrolReply{}, err
}
// Not quoted back: the DSN carries the one-time secret.
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot reach the broker at %s as %s: %w", address, node, err)
}
defer conn.Close()
channel, err := conn.Channel()
if err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, err
}
defer channel.Close()
// This node's own queue, which its account is scoped to and nothing else may read.
queue, err := channel.QueueDeclare(QueueFor(node), true, false, false, false, nil)
if err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf(
"cannot declare this node's queue %s: %w", QueueFor(node), err)
}
replies, err := channel.Consume(queue.Name, "", true, false, false, false, nil)
if err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, err
}
request := EnrolRequest{Node: node, Secret: secret, PublicKey: public, Profile: profile}
body, err := json.Marshal(request)
if err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, err
}
correlation := fmt.Sprintf("%s-%d", node, time.Now().UnixNano())
publish, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, timeout)
defer cancel()
if err := channel.PublishWithContext(publish, Exchange, KeyEnrol, false, false,
amqp.Publishing{
ContentType: "application/json",
CorrelationId: correlation,
ReplyTo: queue.Name,
Body: body,
}); err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("cannot publish to the %s exchange: %w", Exchange, err)
}
// Waited for rather than assumed. A published message that nothing answers means the control
// plane is not running, and a node that carried on regardless would believe it had joined a
// mesh that has never heard of it.
deadline := time.NewTimer(timeout)
defer deadline.Stop()
closed := conn.NotifyClose(make(chan *amqp.Error, 1))
for {
select {
case <-ctx.Done():
return EnrolReply{}, ctx.Err()
case reason := <-closed:
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("the broker closed the connection: %v", reason)
case <-deadline.C:
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf(
"the broker accepted this node's connection and nothing answered within %s. The "+
"mesh's broker is running and its control plane is not", timeout)
case delivery, ok := <-replies:
if !ok {
return EnrolReply{}, errors.New("the broker stopped delivering")
}
// Anything else on this queue is not the answer to this question.
if delivery.CorrelationId != correlation {
continue
}
var reply EnrolReply
if err := json.Unmarshal(delivery.Body, &reply); err != nil {
return EnrolReply{}, fmt.Errorf("the mesh's answer could not be read: %w", err)
}
if !reply.Accepted {
return reply, fmt.Errorf("%w: %s", ErrRefused, reply.Refusal)
}
return reply, nil
}
}
}