swarmctl: re-mint an existing agent's store identity

Agent creation at swarm level is event-driven and nothing sweeps for
agents missing a credential, so an agent created before a credential
joined the mint never receives one -- nothing comes back around to it.
Without a way to re-run the mint by hand, the only route to giving an
existing agent its queue credential would be to delete and recreate the
agent.

POST /api/agents/{name}/identity enqueues the same MintAgentIdentity
node POST /api/agents declares, rather than writing inline: a second
code path that mints an identity is a second place for the four strings
that have to agree to disagree. swarmctl agent mint-identity is the
operator end, the same POST-and-print-the-node-id shape agent create
already has.

--hive is required on both ends. Neither the CLI nor the controller
keeps a roster of which agent runs where, and the credentials this mints
name a hive, so a default would be a guess that hands an agent subjects
on a hive it does not run on.

Documents the backfill as a runbook step, and fills in the renewal cell
the credential matrix requires for the new row.
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atlas 2026-09-21 18:36:57 +02:00 committed by mara
commit 1442168715
6 changed files with 332 additions and 37 deletions

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@ -1500,6 +1500,111 @@ async fn get_agent_config_pr(
Ok(Json(cache.get(&name)))
}
/// Body of `POST /api/agents/{name}/identity`.
#[derive(Deserialize, ToSchema)]
struct MintAgentIdentityRequest {
/// The hive this agent belongs to.
///
/// Required, for the same reason [`CreateAgentRequest`]'s is: the
/// credentials this mints name a hive, and the controller has nowhere to
/// look one up — agents are created on hives at runtime and this daemon
/// keeps no roster of which agent is where. An operator naming the wrong
/// one would hand the agent subjects on a hive it does not run on, so it
/// is asked for rather than guessed at.
hive: String,
}
/// Success body of `POST /api/agents/{name}/identity`.
#[derive(Serialize, ToSchema)]
struct MintAgentIdentityResponse {
/// The queued node, so a caller can follow it in the job view.
node_id: u64,
}
/// Re-run the store-identity mint for an agent that already exists.
///
/// **This route exists for backfill.** Agent creation is event-driven and
/// there is no reconcile sweep at swarm level, so an agent created before a
/// credential was part of the mint never gets one — nothing would ever come
/// back around to it. Without a way to re-run the node by hand, the only way
/// to give an existing agent its queue credential would be to delete and
/// recreate the agent.
///
/// A job node rather than an inline write, and specifically the *same* node
/// `POST /api/agents` declares: a second code path that mints an identity is a
/// second place for the four strings in [`agent_identity`] to disagree.
///
/// ⚠️ **Not idempotent in one respect**: the node re-mints the agent's mTLS
/// leaf, which the agent picks up on its next boot. Its queue secret is left
/// alone — see [`agent_identity::mint_and_verify`] for which half is which and
/// why.
#[utoipa::path(
post,
path = "/api/agents/{name}/identity",
params(("name" = String, Path, description = "agent name")),
request_body = MintAgentIdentityRequest,
responses(
(status = 200, description = "mint queued", body = MintAgentIdentityResponse),
(status = 400, description = "`name` or `hive` is not a valid identifier, or `hive` is not in this swarm (problem+json)", body = String),
(status = 500, description = "the job could not be queued (problem+json)", body = String),
),
tag = "agents"
)]
async fn mint_agent_identity(
State(state): State<AppState>,
Path(name): Path<String>,
Json(req): Json<MintAgentIdentityRequest>,
) -> Result<Json<MintAgentIdentityResponse>, problem_details::ProblemDetails> {
// Both names are interpolated into store paths and policy documents
// downstream, so both are validated here as well as there.
let agent = hive_types::Ident::parse(&name)
.map_err(|reason| error_problem(axum::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST, reason))?
.into_string();
let hive = hive_types::Ident::parse(&req.hive)
.map_err(|reason| error_problem(axum::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST, reason))?
.into_string();
if !state.hives.iter().any(|h| h.name == hive) {
let known: Vec<&str> = state.hives.iter().map(|h| h.name.as_str()).collect();
let known = if known.is_empty() {
"(none configured)".to_owned()
} else {
known.join(", ")
};
return Err(error_problem(
axum::http::StatusCode::BAD_REQUEST,
&format!("hive {hive:?} is not in this swarm — known hives: {known}"),
));
}
// No reserved-name or collision warnings here, unlike `create_agent`:
// those answer "is this name available", and this route is only ever
// pointed at a name that was already taken.
let mut sched = state
.jobq
.lock()
.unwrap_or_else(std::sync::PoisonError::into_inner);
let ids = sched
.insert_job(None, |b| {
vec![
b.node(SwarmNodeKind::MintAgentIdentity {
hive: hive.clone(),
agent: agent.clone(),
})
.guid(),
]
})
.map_err(|e| {
error_problem(
axum::http::StatusCode::INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR,
&e.to_string(),
)
})?;
let [id] = ids[..] else {
unreachable!("exactly one handle was asked for");
};
Ok(Json(MintAgentIdentityResponse { node_id: id.get() }))
}
/// Every agent with an open config PR, in one response — the bulk
/// counterpart to [`get_agent_config_pr`]. swarm-ui's config-PR table needs
/// every agent's status to render, and fetching them one at a time doesn't
@ -1837,6 +1942,7 @@ fn build_app(state: AppState) -> axum::Router {
.routes(routes!(get_agent_config_pr))
.routes(routes!(get_config_prs))
.routes(routes!(create_agent))
.routes(routes!(mint_agent_identity))
.routes(routes!(get_agents))
.routes(routes!(get_agents_status))
.routes(routes!(set_agent_state))