/** * A mesh, raised from nothing, joined by two machines, delivering a credential neither the mesh * nor the broker can read. * * Everything before this proves a part. This proves the parts meet — which is the thing the * project keeps saying cannot be checked any other way (novox/hq ADR 0001: every fault of * 2026-08-22 was found in production because nothing could be stood up locally). * * It needs a host binary and the substrate bundle: * * MESH_LAB_HOST_BINARY=.../mesh-host * MESH_LAB_BUNDLE=.../examples/substrate-first-node.lock * * The bundle's image references are rewritten to the ones this scenario's own registry serves. * A digest belongs to whatever registry serves it, so a committed bundle names a registry that is * not this one — rewriting is what makes it applicable rather than a placeholder to tidy away. */ import { test, before, after } from "node:test"; import assert from "node:assert/strict"; import { existsSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs"; import { loadScenario } from "../../src/declaration/parse.ts"; import { raise } from "../../src/lifecycle/raise.ts"; import { destroy, exec } from "../../src/lifecycle/operate.ts"; import { hostBinaryPath, HOST_PATH } from "../../src/lifecycle/place.ts"; import { labIsUsable, destroyAll } from "./harness.ts"; import { incus } from "../../src/incus/client.ts"; import { machineName } from "../../src/lifecycle/names.ts"; const capability = await labIsUsable(); const binary = hostBinaryPath(); const bundle = process.env["MESH_LAB_BUNDLE"] ?? ""; const builder = process.env["MESH_LAB_BUILDER"] ?? ""; const skip = !capability.usable ? `lab not usable: ${capability.why}` : !binary || !existsSync(binary) ? "MESH_LAB_HOST_BINARY is not set to a built mesh-host" : !bundle || !existsSync(bundle) ? "MESH_LAB_BUNDLE is not set to a substrate bundle (mesh-host examples/)" : false; const SCENARIO = "two-nodes"; let instanceId = ""; /** The scenario's own registry, which serves the images a module may mirror. */ let registry = ""; function quote(s: string): string { return `'${s.replaceAll("'", `'\\''`)}'`; } async function on(machine: string, command: string, timeoutMs?: number): Promise<{ out: string; ok: boolean }> { const { stdout } = await exec(instanceId, machine, [ "sh", "-c", `${command} 2>&1; echo "__exit=$?"`, ], timeoutMs); const marker = stdout.lastIndexOf("__exit="); return { out: stdout.slice(0, marker), ok: Number(stdout.slice(marker + 7).trim()) === 0 }; } async function must(machine: string, command: string, timeoutMs?: number): Promise { const { out, ok } = await on(machine, command, timeoutMs); if (!ok) throw new Error(`${machine}: ${command}\n${out}`); return out; } /** The control plane, which runs in a container on the first node. */ async function mesh(command: string, timeoutMs?: number): Promise { return must("anchor", `docker exec mesh-control /mesh-control ${command}`, timeoutMs); } /** * The bundle, with every image reference pointed at this scenario's registry. * * Matched by repository rather than by the whole reference, because the address and the digest * both differ from whatever the committed bundle names — and a bundle that names the wrong * registry is not wrong, it is built for a different target. */ function bundleFor(images: string[]): string { let text = readFileSync(bundle, "utf8"); for (const pinned of images) { const repository = pinned.slice(pinned.indexOf("/") + 1, pinned.indexOf("@")); const escaped = repository.replaceAll("/", "\\/").replaceAll(".", "\\."); text = text.replaceAll( new RegExp(`[A-Za-z0-9_.:-]+\\/${escaped}@sha256:[0-9a-f]+`, "g"), pinned, ); } return text; } /** Take a token out of what `token issue` printed. It is the one base64url blob on its own line. */ function tokenFrom(said: string): string { const found = said.split("\n").map((l) => l.trim()).find((l) => l.length > 100 && !l.includes(" ")); assert.ok(found, `no token in:\n${said}`); return found; } before(async () => { if (skip) return; const raised = await raise(loadScenario(`scenarios/${SCENARIO}.yml`), {}); instanceId = raised.instanceId; // The first node raises everything from a file rather than from a bundle built into the binary, // because the digests are this registry's and are not known until it is up. await must("anchor", `cat > /tmp/substrate.lock <<'MESHBUNDLE'\n${bundleFor(raised.images)}\nMESHBUNDLE`); await must("anchor", `${HOST_PATH} apply /tmp/substrate.lock`); const first = raised.images[0]; assert.ok(first, "the scenario stocked no images, so nothing can be mirrored"); registry = first.slice(0, first.indexOf("/")); // A build machine, so anything here can ask the mesh to build something. Placed rather than // assumed: nothing else in this scenario would start one. if (builder) { await incus([ "file", "push", builder, `${machineName(instanceId, "anchor")}/usr/local/bin/mesh-builder`, "--mode", "0755", ], 180_000); await must("anchor", `mkdir -p /var/lib/mesh-builder`); await must("anchor", `MESH_BROKER_AMQP='amqp://guest:guest@127.0.0.1:5672/' MESH_REGISTRY=${registry} ` + `MESH_WORKSPACE=/var/lib/mesh-builder ` + `nohup /usr/local/bin/mesh-builder > /var/log/mesh-builder.log 2>&1 & sleep 3`); } }, { timeout: 1_800_000 }); after(async () => { if (instanceId) await destroy(instanceId); await destroyAll(`${SCENARIO}-`); }, { timeout: 600_000 }); test("a bare machine becomes a mesh", { skip, timeout: 600_000 }, async () => { const running = await must("anchor", `docker ps --format '{{.Names}}'`); for (const container of ["mesh-store", "mesh-broker", "mesh-control"]) { assert.match(running, new RegExp(container), `${container} is not running`); } // Answering, not merely up. A container that is running is not a control plane that replies — // a distinction this project has already paid for once. assert.ok((await mesh("status")).length > 0); }); test("both machines join it, and the token is all they need", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { for (const [machine, node] of [["anchor", "anchor"], ["laptop", "laptop"]] as const) { await mesh(`node add ${node}`); const token = tokenFrom(await mesh(`token issue --node ${node}`)); // No --name. The token says what the mesh calls the machine, which is the fault this walk // found the first time it was run. const said = await must(machine, `${HOST_PATH} enrol --token ${quote(token)}`); assert.match(said, new RegExp(`enrolled as ${node}`), said); assert.match(said, /sealing key/, "no sealing key was generated"); } const recorded = await must("anchor", `docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d inventory -qAt ` + `-c "select name from node where sealing_key is not null order by name"`); assert.equal(recorded.trim().split("\n").map((l) => l.trim()).sort().join(","), "anchor,laptop", "the mesh did not record a sealing key for both machines"); }); test("a credential reaches both ends and the mesh holds neither", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { // The whole argument, on real machines: the two ends must hold the SAME password, and it must // appear nowhere the mesh or the broker could read it. await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"postgres","version":"1",` + `"provides":[{"name":"database","scope":"mesh"}],"serves":{"database":{"port":5432}},` + `"grants":{"database":"/var/lib/mesh-host/grants"},` + `"receives":{"database":"/var/lib/mesh-host/grants/mesh.json"},"resources":[]}' > /tmp/pg.json`); await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"meshboard","version":"1",` + `"requires":["database"],"contributes":{"database":{"name":"meshboard"}},` + `"binds":{"database":"/etc/meshboard/database.json"},` + `"secrets":{"database":"/etc/meshboard/database.password"},"resources":[]}' > /tmp/app.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/pg.json mesh-control:/pg.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/app.json mesh-control:/app.json`); await mesh("module add /pg.json"); await mesh("module add /app.json"); await mesh("overlay place anchor --hub --endpoint 192.0.2.10:51820 --site lab"); await mesh("overlay place laptop --site lab"); for (const node of ["anchor", "laptop"]) await mesh(`assign ${node} networking`); await mesh("assign anchor postgres"); await mesh("assign laptop meshboard"); for (const machine of ["anchor", "laptop"]) { await must(machine, `nohup ${HOST_PATH} run > /var/log/mesh-host.log 2>&1 & sleep 3`); } await mesh("push"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 8000)); const onConsumer = (await must("laptop", `cat /etc/meshboard/database.password`)).trim(); const onProvider = (await must("anchor", `cat /var/lib/mesh-host/grants/laptop.secret`)).trim(); assert.ok(onConsumer.length >= 40, `the consumer's credential is ${onConsumer.length} characters`); assert.equal(onConsumer, onProvider, "the two ends hold different passwords, so nothing could ever authenticate"); // Only the machine it is for may read it. assert.match(await must("laptop", `stat -c %a /etc/meshboard/database.password`), /^600/); // And it is nowhere it could have been read on the way. The declaration crossed the broker; the // database is the control plane's; the state is what the node reported back. for (const [machine, where] of [ ["laptop", "/var/lib/mesh-host/declared.json"], ["laptop", "/var/lib/mesh-host/state.json"], ["anchor", "/var/lib/mesh-host/declared.json"], ] as const) { const { out } = await on(machine, `grep -c ${quote(onConsumer)} ${where}`); assert.equal(out.trim(), "0", `the password is in ${where} on ${machine}`); } const inTheMesh = await must("anchor", `docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d inventory -qAt ` + `-c "select count(*) from secret where for_consumer like '%${onConsumer}%' ` + `or for_provider like '%${onConsumer}%'"`); assert.equal(inTheMesh.trim(), "0", "the control plane's database holds the password in the clear"); }); test("the consumer is also told where its database is", { skip, timeout: 300_000 }, async () => { // A password with no address is not a connection. This is the readable half, which stays // readable on purpose — it is the secret half that could not be composed, not this one. const told = JSON.parse(await must("laptop", `cat /etc/meshboard/database.json`)); assert.equal(told.from, "anchor"); assert.equal(told.at, "anchor.internal"); assert.equal(told.serves.port, 5432); // And the name it resolves to was written by the mesh as well, on this machine. assert.match(await must("laptop", `grep anchor.internal /etc/hosts`), /10\.42\.0\.\d+/); }); test("when a machine cannot do what it was told, the mesh says which and why", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { // Demonstrated with inserted rows first, which proves the query and not the path. This sends a // real machine something it will genuinely fail at, and asks the mesh afterwards. // // A package that does not exist, because that is a failure of the ordinary kind: the host tries, // the package manager says no, and some of the declaration is applied and some is not — which // is the situation `status` exists to distinguish from a machine that refused everything. await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"impossible","version":"1","resources":[` + `{"id":"nothing","type":"package","package":"a-package-that-does-not-exist"}]}' > /tmp/imp.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/imp.json mesh-control:/imp.json`); await mesh("module add /imp.json"); await mesh("assign laptop impossible"); await mesh("push laptop"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 10_000)); const said = await mesh("status"); assert.match(said, /not doing what they were told/, said); assert.match(said, /laptop/, said); // The machine's own words about the resource that failed, not a summary written at this end. assert.match(said, /impossible\.nothing/, `the failing resource is not named:\n${said}`); // And the distinction survives: this machine FAILED, it did not refuse. Refused means it is // exactly as it was; failed means it is in a state nobody declared, and they are fixed in // different places. assert.match(said, /laptop\s+failed/, said); // The other machine is not implicated. assert.doesNotMatch(said.split("not heard from")[0] ?? said, /anchor\s+(failed|refused)/, "a machine that did as it was told is listed as wrong"); }); test("a declaration waits for a machine that is switched off", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { // A machine is disconnected as an ordinary situation, not an exception (novox/hq ADR 0004), so // a push to one that is not listening must wait rather than vanish. The queue is durable and the // message persistent, which ought to be enough — but a lost declaration is silent, and "ought to // be" is not a property. // // The machine is not merely idle here: its host is stopped, so nothing is consuming its queue. // Nothing this test asserts should depend on what another left behind. The machine still has a // deliberately-impossible module from the test above, and while that is assigned the mesh never // updates its account of what the machine holds — a partial report is not an account, on // purpose (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/010). await mesh("unassign laptop impossible"); // Stop listening, and prove it stopped — a test that pushed to a machine that was still running // would pass having checked nothing. // // By process name, never by matching the command line: `pkill -f` matches the shell running it // too, which kills the connection carrying the command and hangs the caller waiting for a reply // that will never come. Cost an hour once, in this file. await must("laptop", `pkill -x mesh-host || true; sleep 1`); const listening = await on("laptop", `pgrep -x mesh-host`); assert.equal(listening.ok, false, "the host is still running, so this proves nothing"); await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"while-away","version":"1","resources":[` + `{"id":"note","type":"file","path":"/etc/mesh-while-away","content":"waited"}]}' > /tmp/away.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/away.json mesh-control:/away.json`); await mesh("module add /away.json"); await mesh("assign laptop while-away"); await mesh("push laptop"); // Nothing has happened on the machine, because nothing is there to do it. const before = await on("laptop", `test -f /etc/mesh-while-away`); assert.equal(before.ok, false, "a machine with no host applied a declaration"); // And now it listens again. No second push, and nobody says anything. await must("laptop", `nohup ${HOST_PATH} run > /var/log/mesh-host.log 2>&1 & sleep 8`); let arrived = false; for (let i = 0; i < 20 && !arrived; i++) { arrived = (await on("laptop", `test -f /etc/mesh-while-away`)).ok; if (!arrived) await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 2000)); } if (!arrived) { // Everything needed to tell "the message was never queued" from "the host never read it". const log = await on("laptop", `tail -20 /var/log/mesh-host.log`); const queues = await on("anchor", `docker exec mesh-broker lavinmqctl list_queues name messages 2>&1 | head -10`); const owned = await on("anchor", `docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d inventory -qAt -c "select name, outcome from node_report r join node n on n.id=r.node"`); assert.fail(`a declaration sent to a switched-off machine was lost\n` + `--- the host's log ---\n${log.out}\n--- the broker's queues ---\n${queues.out}\n` + `--- what each machine last did ---\n${owned.out}`); } assert.equal((await must("laptop", `cat /etc/mesh-while-away`)).trim(), "waited"); // And the mesh's account of what that machine holds catches up too, or a later declaration // would tell it to remove what it has just been given. await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 4000)); const owned = await must("anchor", `docker exec mesh-store psql -U postgres -d inventory -qAt ` + `-c "select owned from node where name = 'laptop'"`); assert.match(owned, /while-away\.note/, `the mesh does not know the machine holds it: ${owned}`); }); test("unassigning takes away exactly what it should", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { // Removal is the half nobody tests. The mesh takes away what IT declared and no longer declares, // and never what the machine raised for itself from its bundle — which is the fault that // destroyed a substrate once (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/010). // // Two modules, so the test can tell "removed the right one" from "removed everything". for (const [name, path] of [["kept", "/etc/mesh-kept"], ["going", "/etc/mesh-going"]] as const) { await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"${name}","version":"1","resources":[` + `{"id":"note","type":"file","path":"${path}","content":"${name}"}]}' > /tmp/${name}.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/${name}.json mesh-control:/${name}.json`); await mesh(`module add /${name}.json`); await mesh(`assign anchor ${name}`); } await mesh("push anchor"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 6000)); assert.ok((await on("anchor", `test -f /etc/mesh-kept`)).ok, "the first module did not arrive"); assert.ok((await on("anchor", `test -f /etc/mesh-going`)).ok, "the second module did not arrive"); await mesh("unassign anchor going"); await mesh("push anchor"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 6000)); assert.equal((await on("anchor", `test -f /etc/mesh-going`)).ok, false, "an unassigned module's file is still there"); assert.ok((await on("anchor", `test -f /etc/mesh-kept`)).ok, "unassigning one module took another one's file with it"); // And the substrate this machine raised from its own bundle is untouched. It was not declared by // the mesh, so the mesh must never remove it — the machine would take its own control plane // away, which is exactly what happened before origins existed. const running = await must("anchor", `docker ps --format '{{.Names}}'`); for (const container of ["mesh-store", "mesh-broker", "mesh-control"]) { assert.match(running, new RegExp(container), `${container} was removed by a declaration that never declared it`); } }); test("a machine keeps what it was given when the mesh says nothing about it", { skip, timeout: 600_000 }, async () => { // The other direction of the same rule. A node that is sent a declaration mentioning none of its // private network must not lose it: the network came from a module that is still assigned, and // "not in this message" is not "no longer wanted". assert.ok((await on("laptop", `test -f /etc/wireguard/mesh0.conf`)).ok, "the private network's configuration is gone"); assert.ok((await on("laptop", `grep -q anchor.internal /etc/hosts`)).ok, "the mesh's names are gone"); }); test("a machine that fell behind catches up without being named", { skip, timeout: 900_000 }, async () => { // `status` says which machines are not doing what they were told; something has to act on it. // `push --behind` is that something, and it is a command rather than a timer to begin with — // a scheduler is then a scheduler over this, rather than a second path to the same act. // Break one machine, in a way that is fixable: a package that does not exist yet. await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"fixable","version":"1","resources":[` + `{"id":"pkg","type":"package","package":"a-package-that-does-not-exist-yet"},` + `{"id":"note","type":"file","path":"/etc/mesh-fixable","content":"here"}]}' > /tmp/fix.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/fix.json mesh-control:/fix.json`); await mesh("module add /fix.json"); await mesh("assign laptop fixable"); await mesh("push laptop"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 8000)); assert.match(await mesh("status"), /laptop\s+failed/, "the machine did not report a failure"); // And the resources that COULD be applied were — one broken thing no longer blocks the rest // (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/011). assert.ok((await on("laptop", `test -f /etc/mesh-fixable`)).ok, "a resource after the failing one was never attempted"); // Nothing is behind on the other machine, so nothing is pushed to it. const named = await mesh("push --behind"); assert.match(named, /laptop/, named); assert.doesNotMatch(named, /sent anchor/, `a machine that was fine was pushed to:\n${named}`); // Fix the cause, the way somebody would: the module stops asking for the impossible thing. await must("anchor", `printf %s '{"module":"fixable","version":"1","resources":[` + `{"id":"note","type":"file","path":"/etc/mesh-fixable","content":"here"}]}' > /tmp/fix.json`); await must("anchor", `docker cp /tmp/fix.json mesh-control:/fix.json`); await mesh("module add /fix.json"); // And nobody names the machine. await mesh("push --behind"); await new Promise((r) => setTimeout(r, 8000)); const after = await mesh("status"); assert.doesNotMatch(after, /laptop\s+(failed|refused)/, `the machine did not recover:\n${after}`); // With nothing behind, it says so rather than doing nothing quietly. assert.match(await mesh("push --behind"), /every machine is doing what it was told/); }); // The mesh running its own artifact store is proven in its own scenario, not this one. // // It was here, and adding the image it mirrors to this scenario made the bootstrap fail: the // store container did not come up within three minutes, with no output at all from its own // readiness check — which says the container was not running rather than that the database was // slow. Four images on a machine this size is the difference. // // Left as a note rather than a silently deleted test: what it asserted is worth asserting, and // where it belongs is a scenario with room for it (novox/hq 04-ISSUES/012).