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hyperhive/nix/host-modules/swarm-ca.nix
atlas 5a83c40dca feat(nix): issue a swarm-services leaf, and renew it with the hive one
The swarm's service names cannot go on the hive leaf: the hive CA is
name-constrained to the hive domain and those names are siblings of
it. So there is a second leaf, signed by the services sub-CA.

signLeafScript is parameterised rather than duplicated -- same
ceremony, different issuer and names -- so the two cannot drift in
how they are built. The name list itself is derived once, as a
read-only swarm.serviceDomains, and read by both the sub-CA that
name-constrains those names and the leaf that carries them as SANs:
two modules each assembling the list is how they stop agreeing.

The renewal unit is the point of this commit as much as the leaf.
hive-tls-resign now knows about both, because a leaf that first-boot
issuance creates and weekly renewal ignores looks perfect for its
entire validity and then expires with no warning -- the failure is
invisible until it is total. The freshness test became a function
over a leaf rather than a check of one, so adding a third leaf is a
line rather than a rewrite.

The services leaf is skipped where the sub-CA is absent: it exists
only where the swarm CA is autoconfigured, and on a hive whose certs
come from its operator the correct state is no leaf, not a stale one.

Also drops a comment that documented signLeafScript's old signature
from above an unrelated binding.
2026-08-05 22:43:03 +02:00

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# The swarm root CA: the anchor a whole swarm shares, and the issuer of
# each hive's own CA (which is where it gets used — see ./hive-tls.nix).
#
# Why a hierarchy at all: cross-hive trust used to be hand-pinned per
# peer, so every hive had to name every other one — O(n²) configuration
# that a new hive could only join by editing all the others. One root
# makes it O(1): trust the root once and every present *and future* peer
# validates. The per-peer CA field is gone precisely because this
# replaced it.
#
# Two provisioning modes, ONE structure — what differs is who puts the
# artifacts on disk, never what the artifacts are:
#
# - autoconfigured (`services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults`, or
# `autoConfigure` set directly): the unit below generates the root
# here on first boot.
# - operator-provided (multi-host): the operator installs the root cert
# — and, on a host that does not hold the root key, the hive CA too —
# into the state dirs, and this unit does nothing. Splitting a
# single-host swarm across hosts is then a matter of moving the
# service dirs and turning `autoConfigure` off, not of a second code
# path that has to be kept agreeing with the first.
#
# The root KEY is the reason this is a runtime file and not a nix option:
# the store is world-readable and content-addressed, so a key committed
# to a flake is a key *published* to every consumer of that flake.
#
# ⚠️ The root CERT is therefore a runtime file too, which costs something:
# nothing whose trust store is built at build time can name it. See
# docs/swarm/ca.md § "Distributing the root".
{
lib,
config,
pkgs,
...
}:
let
cfg = config.services.hyperhive.swarm.ca;
hyperhiveCfg = config.services.hyperhive;
# The subject CN is a label for a human reading a chain, not an
# identity anything authenticates against. Fall through swarm name →
# hive domain → a constant so a hive that has set neither still
# evaluates; a missing `domain` is reported by its own assertion in
# hive-network.nix, and shouldn't also surface here as a null.
swarmLabel =
if hyperhiveCfg.swarm.name != null then
hyperhiveCfg.swarm.name
else if hyperhiveCfg.domain != null then
hyperhiveCfg.domain
else
"hyperhive";
# Derived once in ./swarm.nix, read here and by ./hive-tls.nix: the
# CA that name-constrains these and the leaf that carries them as SANs
# must agree exactly, and two modules each assembling the list is how
# they stop agreeing. It is also this unit's *rotation trigger* below,
# which is why the ordering is stable there rather than here.
serviceDomains = hyperhiveCfg.swarm.serviceDomains;
in
{
options.services.hyperhive.swarm.ca = {
autoConfigure = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.bool;
default = false;
example = true;
description = ''
Run the whole swarm CA on this one host: generate the swarm
root when it is missing, and issue this hive's CA under it.
`services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults` turns this on as
part of the all-on-one-box mode. Set it here directly to run the
CA on a host that is not otherwise all-local.
**Off by default, deliberately.** A swarm's services and its
hives can live on different hosts, and this host has no way to
tell whether it is the one holding the root — so the swarm CA
is something an operator sets up, not something a host decides
it is. Turn this on for an all-on-one-host deployment (dev
boxes, single-hive swarms) and get the hierarchy for free.
With it off, both artifacts are operator-provided: the root
under `stateDir`, and this hive's CA under
`services.hyperhive.tls.stateDir`. A hive given neither keeps
the self-signed CA it has always had — it simply isn't part of
a swarm's trust hierarchy, which is the correct outcome for a
hive nobody has federated yet.
'';
};
stateDir = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.str;
default = "/var/lib/swarm-ca";
description = ''
Host directory holding the swarm root CA: `root.pem` (the
anchor, safe to distribute — copy it to this same path on every
other host in the swarm) and `root-key.pem`
(0600, the one file that must never reach the nix store or
another host). The directory itself is 0700: nothing reads
out of it but the hive CA issuance in `hive-tls.nix`.
Moving the swarm CA to its own host is a matter of moving this
directory and setting `autoConfigure = false` here.
'';
};
servicesValidityDays = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.int;
default = 1825;
description = ''
Validity window of the swarm-services sub-CA in days (~5y).
Deliberately far shorter than the root's: this CA is *meant* to
be re-issued — adding a swarm service changes its name
constraints and rotates it — so a long window buys nothing, and
a short one keeps the rotation path exercised rather than
theoretical.
Rotating it is cheap in the way rotating the root is not: it
touches only the swarm-service vhosts, and no peer hive holds it
as an anchor.
'';
};
validityDays = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.int;
default = 10950;
description = ''
Validity window of the swarm root CA in days (default ~30y).
Deliberately longer than `services.hyperhive.tls.caValidityDays`:
the root must outlive the hive CAs it issues, or those chains
expire out from under hives that are still perfectly happy with
their own intermediate. Rotating a root is the one operation in
this system with no partial-failure mode — it invalidates every
peer at once, paced by the slowest peer's rebuild — so it is
never automatic and this window is meant to be uneventful.
'';
};
};
config = lib.mkIf (hyperhiveCfg.enable && cfg.autoConfigure) {
systemd.services.swarm-ca = {
description = "Generate the swarm root CA when absent";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
path = [ pkgs.openssl ];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
UMask = "0077";
# Pin the journal identity (else it's the `script` store-path wrapper).
SyslogIdentifier = "swarm-ca";
};
script = ''
set -euo pipefail
d=${lib.escapeShellArg cfg.stateDir}
install -d -m 0700 "$d"
root="$d/root.pem"
rootk="$d/root-key.pem"
# Note the asymmetry with the hive CA in hive-tls.nix, which
# regenerates itself once expired: a root is never replaced
# automatically, not even an expired one. Consumers hold this
# cert, so replacing it is a swarm-wide flag day that wants an
# operator running it deliberately, with both roots trusted
# across the overlap.
if [ -s "$root" ] && [ -s "$rootk" ]; then
echo "swarm root CA already present at $root — leaving it alone"
exit 0
fi
# Half a root is not a root. Generating a fresh key beside an
# already-distributed cert (or the reverse) leaves every
# consumer trusting an anchor that no longer signs anything —
# and it would look like it worked.
if [ -e "$root" ] || [ -e "$rootk" ]; then
echo "swarm root CA half-provisioned ($root / $rootk) — refusing to generate over it" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "generating swarm root CA at $root"
# pathlen:1 — the root signs hive CAs, which sign leaves. One
# intermediate below the root and no deeper.
openssl req -x509 -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -sha256 \
-days ${toString cfg.validityDays} \
-keyout "$rootk" -out "$root" \
-subj "/CN=swarm-ca ${swarmLabel}" \
-addext "basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE,pathlen:1" \
-addext "keyUsage=critical,keyCertSign,cRLSign"
chmod 0600 "$rootk"
chmod 0644 "$root"
'';
};
# The swarm-services sub-CA: issues leaves for the swarm's own
# service names, which no hive CA can sign — each of those is
# name-constrained to its own hive's domain, and the service names
# are siblings of it, not children.
#
# Rotation is the point of it being separate (mara: "swarm services
# sub ca that can rotate independently of swarm root ca"): the
# constraint enumerates the exact service names, so adding a service
# re-issues *this* and never touches the root or any hive CA.
systemd.services.swarm-services-ca = {
description = "Issue the swarm-services sub-CA under the swarm root";
wantedBy = [ "multi-user.target" ];
after = [ "swarm-ca.service" ];
requires = [ "swarm-ca.service" ];
path = [ pkgs.openssl ];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
UMask = "0077";
SyslogIdentifier = "swarm-services-ca";
};
script = ''
set -euo pipefail
d=${lib.escapeShellArg cfg.stateDir}
root="$d/root.pem"
rootk="$d/root-key.pem"
ca="$d/services-ca.pem"
cak="$d/services-ca-key.pem"
# The name set this CA was last issued for. Comparing against it
# is what makes re-issuance happen exactly when the service
# names change — not every boot, and not never.
names="$d/services-ca.names"
want=${lib.escapeShellArg (lib.concatStringsSep "\n" serviceDomains)}
if [ -z "$want" ]; then
echo "no swarm service domains configured — nothing to issue for"
exit 0
fi
# Same half-provisioned guard as the root: a key beside a cert
# that did not sign it looks like it works and issues nothing
# anyone will trust.
if { [ -e "$ca" ] && [ ! -e "$cak" ]; } || { [ -e "$cak" ] && [ ! -e "$ca" ]; }; then
echo "services sub-CA half-provisioned ($ca / $cak) — refusing to generate over it" >&2
exit 1
fi
if [ -s "$ca" ] && [ -s "$cak" ] && [ -f "$names" ] \
&& [ "$(cat "$names")" = "$want" ]; then
echo "services sub-CA present and covers the configured names — leaving it alone"
exit 0
fi
if [ ! -s "$root" ] || [ ! -s "$rootk" ]; then
echo "no swarm root CA at $root — cannot issue the services sub-CA under it" >&2
exit 1
fi
echo "issuing services sub-CA at $ca for: $(echo "$want" | tr '\n' ' ')"
csr="$(mktemp "$d/services-ca.csr.XXXXXX")"
ext="$(mktemp "$d/services-ca.ext.XXXXXX")"
trap 'rm -f "$csr" "$ext"' EXIT
openssl req -newkey rsa:4096 -nodes -sha256 \
-keyout "$cak" -out "$csr" \
-subj "/CN=swarm-services-ca ${swarmLabel}"
{
# pathlen:0 — this signs leaves and delegates no further.
printf 'basicConstraints=critical,CA:TRUE,pathlen:0\n'
printf 'keyUsage=critical,keyCertSign,cRLSign\n'
printf 'subjectKeyIdentifier=hash\n'
printf 'authorityKeyIdentifier=keyid:always\n'
# Constrained to the exact service names, not to the whole
# swarm domain: a leaked services CA should mint `forge.`,
# `chat.`, `auth.` and nothing else. The IP exclusions are not
# redundant — a DNS constraint says nothing about an
# iPAddress SAN, and an unconstrained name type is a name
# type this CA is unconstrained for.
printf 'nameConstraints=critical,permitted;%s,excluded;IP:0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0,excluded;IP:0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0/0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0\n' \
"$(echo "$want" | sed 's/^/DNS:/' | paste -sd, -)"
} > "$ext"
openssl x509 -req -in "$csr" -CA "$root" -CAkey "$rootk" \
-CAcreateserial -days ${toString cfg.servicesValidityDays} -sha256 \
-extfile "$ext" -out "$ca"
printf '%s' "$want" > "$names"
chmod 0600 "$cak"
chmod 0644 "$ca" "$names"
'';
};
};
}