swarm-nats: give the queue a name, a bao-issued leaf, and require TLS

The queue listened in plaintext on 4222, reached by bridge IP or loopback,
and nothing in-tree opened it to another hive. It now has a name, serves a
certificate for that name alone, and refuses clients that do not speak TLS.

- `swarm.nats.domain`, default `nats.<swarm.domain>`, a sibling name like
  `swarm.bao.domain`. The queue host answers it via `gateway.localNames`;
  every other hive resolves it through the operator's DNS, as for bao.
- `pki/roles/swarm-nats` allows that one name (bare domain, no subdomains,
  IPs or localhost, server flag). A `swarm-nats` cert-auth role and policy
  may only `update` `pki/issue/swarm-nats`, written by
  `swarm-bao-nats-tls-policy`. The login leaf is minted by glue-bao-tls and
  paired by glue-nats-bao-identity. `deploy.bao.natsCommonName` is reserved
  as a hive name.
- `swarm-bao-nats-tls` issues the leaf into a directory bound read-only into
  the container, restarts nats when it rotates, and re-runs daily.
  It joins glue-bao-readers-policy-order, so it is ordered after its policy
  unit (`after` and `wants`, never `requires`) where the store is on the
  same host. The policy unit joins the store's journald list.
- nats gets `tls {}`, with the key via `LoadCredential`, and no
  `allow_non_tls`. `validateConfig` is now off in every mode, because the
  build-time check loads a leaf that only exists at runtime.
- 4222 is also open on `wg-hive` when the host is on the mesh, never
  host-wide.
- `statusPublish.natsUrl`, `queue.agentNatsUrl`, the controller's URL under
  `singleHostSwarm`, and the auth responder all dial
  `tls://<swarm.nats.domain>:<port>`. swarm-queue-client hands its CA file
  to the NATS connection too, so hive-c0re and the controller trust the
  leaf's root.
- docs/swarm/README.md: the queue URL and the one DNS record a multi-host
  swarm needs.

module-eval-nats-tls pins the role, the policy, the served leaf, the
firewall, the ordering, and a scan of every `*_NATS_URL` and the
responder's URL across the host and its containers.

Closes #4626
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atlas 2026-09-24 15:43:25 +02:00 • committed by mara
commit 1d261b3fed
17 changed files with 748 additions and 108 deletions

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@ -123,19 +123,17 @@ let
== toString allLocal.services.hyperhive.deploy.hive-controller.queue.agentCredentialDir;
}
{
# The one address in this file that must NOT be loopback. Both spellings
# sit in the same unit's environment and are correct for their own
# reader: hive-c0re shares the host netns, an agent container does not,
# so a copy-paste between them reaches the agent itself and the symptom
# is a connect that hangs.
name = "the agents' queue address is the bridge, not the loopback one the hive itself uses";
# Inside an agent container loopback is the agent itself, so the agents'
# address must never be one. By name it is the same string the hive
# dials, which ./nats-tls.nix pins for every client.
name = "the agents' queue address is the queue's name, never loopback";
ok =
let
e = allLocal.systemd.services.hive-c0re.environment;
in
e.HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL == "nats://${allLocal.services.hyperhive.network.bridgeIp}:4222"
e.HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL == "tls://nats.t.local:4222"
&& !(lib.hasInfix "127.0.0.1" e.HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL)
&& e.HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL != e.HIVE_C0RE_NATS_URL;
&& e.HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL == e.HIVE_C0RE_NATS_URL;
}
{
# The agents mint against the swarm's IdP, the same endpoint the hive's

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# `checks.module-eval-nats-tls` — see ./lib.nix for the shared rationale (why
# this suite exists, naming convention, "evaluates not executes").
#
# The queue's name, its bao-issued leaf, and the clients that dial it.
{
pkgs,
lib,
self,
nixosSystem,
}:
let
inherit
(import ./lib.nix {
inherit
pkgs
lib
self
nixosSystem
;
})
hive
runGroup
bridgePorts
;
natsName = "nats.t.local";
natsUrl = "tls://${natsName}:4222";
# Every service on one host, with a bootstrap token so the store's granting
# units render. The queue, the store and every in-tree client of the queue
# are all here, so the scan below reads each of them.
allLocal = hive {
deploy.singleHostSwarm = true;
deploy.bao.bootstrapTokenFile = "/run/secrets/bao-bootstrap.token";
};
# The same host on the mesh.
allLocalMesh = hive {
deploy.singleHostSwarm = true;
deploy.wireguard.enable = true;
deploy.wireguard.address = "10.100.0.1/24";
};
# The queue on a host whose store is elsewhere: no local policy unit.
queueNoStore = hive {
deploy.nats.enable = true;
deploy.nats.autoGenerateCallout = true;
};
policyScript = allLocal.systemd.services.swarm-bao-nats-tls-policy.script;
leafUnit = allLocal.systemd.services.swarm-bao-nats-tls;
natsContainer = allLocal.containers.swarm-nats.config;
natsTls = natsContainer.services.nats.settings.tls;
# Every `(nats|tls)://…` in a string.
urlsIn =
s: map builtins.head (builtins.filter builtins.isList (builtins.split "((nats|tls)://[^ '\"]+)" s));
# Every in-tree queue client, found rather than listed. The Rust client reads
# its address from `<PREFIX>_NATS_URL` (`swarm_queue_client::QueueConfig::
# from_env`), so any unit on the host or in a container that is handed one
# carries a variable of that shape. The responder takes a flag instead.
# Keyed by where each came from, so the control below can name them.
clientUrls =
machine:
let
fromUnits =
where: services:
lib.concatLists (
lib.mapAttrsToList (
unit: s:
lib.mapAttrsToList (var: v: {
name = "${where}/${unit}/${var}";
value = v;
}) (lib.filterAttrs (var: v: lib.hasSuffix "_NATS_URL" var && v != null) (s.environment or { }))
) services
);
containerUnits = lib.concatLists (
lib.mapAttrsToList (c: cc: fromUnits c cc.config.systemd.services) machine.containers
);
responder =
map
(u: {
name = "swarm-nats/swarm-nats-auth/--nats-url";
value = u;
})
(
urlsIn machine.containers.swarm-nats.config.systemd.services.swarm-nats-auth.serviceConfig.ExecStart
);
in
lib.listToAttrs (fromUnits "host" machine.systemd.services ++ containerUnits ++ responder);
scanned = clientUrls allLocal;
cases = [
{
# Control first: a scan that found nothing would pass the next case
# vacuously. These are the four clients in the tree today.
name = "the client scan finds hive-c0re, the agents, the controller and the responder";
ok = lib.all (k: scanned ? ${k}) [
"host/hive-c0re/HIVE_C0RE_NATS_URL"
"host/hive-c0re/HIVE_AGENT_NATS_URL"
"host/swarm-controller/SWARM_CONTROLLER_NATS_URL"
"swarm-nats/swarm-nats-auth/--nats-url"
];
}
{
# The server requires TLS and its leaf carries the name alone, so a
# `nats://` URL or an address is a client that cannot connect. Every one
# found, not the four above: a client added later is held to it too.
name = "every in-tree queue client dials tls://<the queue's name>:4222";
ok = lib.all (u: u == natsUrl) (lib.attrValues scanned);
}
{
# The option defaults the scan reads through, so a client that stops
# reading them does not also escape the property above.
name = "the queue URL options default to the name on the queue's host";
ok =
let
d = allLocal.services.hyperhive.deploy;
in
d.hive-controller.statusPublish.natsUrl == natsUrl
&& d.hive-controller.queue.agentNatsUrl == natsUrl
&& allLocal.services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.queue.natsUrl == natsUrl;
}
{
name = "the queue's name is served by this host's resolver, at the bridge address";
ok =
lib.elem natsName allLocal.services.hyperhive.gateway.localNames
&& lib.elem "/${natsName}/${allLocal.services.hyperhive.network.bridgeIp}" allLocal.services.dnsmasq.settings.address;
}
{
name = "the queue's pki role issues for its name alone";
ok = lib.all (arg: lib.hasInfix arg policyScript) [
"roles/swarm-nats \\"
"allowed_domains=${lib.escapeShellArg natsName} \\"
"allow_bare_domains=true \\"
"allow_subdomains=false \\"
"allow_glob_domains=false \\"
"allow_localhost=false \\"
"allow_any_name=false \\"
"allow_ip_sans=false \\"
"server_flag=true \\"
"client_flag=false \\"
];
}
{
# Every `path` the policy names, not a search for the one expected: a
# second grant added later fails here.
name = "the queue's policy grants pki/issue/swarm-nats and nothing else";
ok =
let
paths = map builtins.head (
builtins.filter builtins.isList (builtins.split "path \"([^\"]*)\"" policyScript)
);
in
paths == [ "pki/issue/swarm-nats" ]
&& lib.hasInfix ''capabilities = ["update"]'' policyScript
&& lib.hasInfix "allowed_common_names=swarm-nats" policyScript
&& lib.hasInfix "token_policies=swarm-nats" policyScript;
}
{
# Mint to consume: the leaf the unit writes is the one the server reads,
# and the login leaf glue-bao-tls signs is the one the unit presents.
name = "the server serves the leaf the host unit issues, and the unit logs in as swarm-nats";
ok =
natsTls.cert_file == "/var/lib/swarm-nats-tls/cert.pem"
&& natsTls.key_file == "/run/credentials/nats.service/tls-key"
&& lib.elem "tls-key:/var/lib/swarm-nats-tls/key.pem" natsContainer.systemd.services.nats.serviceConfig.LoadCredential
&& allLocal.containers.swarm-nats.bindMounts ? "/var/lib/swarm-nats-tls"
&& lib.hasInfix "d=/var/lib/swarm-nats-tls" leafUnit.script
&& lib.hasInfix "pki/issue/swarm-nats" leafUnit.script
&& leafUnit.environment.BAO_CLIENT_CERT == "/var/lib/swarm-bao-pki/nats.pem"
&& lib.hasInfix "[ -s /var/lib/swarm-bao-pki/nats.pem ]" allLocal.systemd.services.swarm-bao-pki.script
&& lib.hasInfix "swarm-nats \"\" clientAuth" allLocal.systemd.services.swarm-bao-pki.script;
}
{
name = "the server requires TLS: no allow_non_tls";
ok = !(natsContainer.services.nats.settings ? allow_non_tls);
}
{
name = "4222 is open on wg-hive when this host is on the mesh, and never host-wide";
ok =
lib.elem 4222 allLocalMesh.networking.firewall.interfaces.wg-hive.allowedTCPPorts
&& !(lib.elem 4222 allLocalMesh.networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts)
&& lib.elem 4222 (bridgePorts allLocalMesh);
}
{
name = "4222 is not opened on wg-hive when this host is not on the mesh";
ok =
!(lib.elem 4222
(allLocal.networking.firewall.interfaces.wg-hive or { allowedTCPPorts = [ ]; }).allowedTCPPorts
)
&& !(lib.elem 4222 allLocal.networking.firewall.allowedTCPPorts);
}
{
# Ordering, never a requirement: the policy unit skips once the bootstrap
# token is gone, and a skipped unit counts as done.
name = "the leaf unit is ordered after its policy unit, with no requires";
ok =
let
p = "swarm-bao-nats-tls-policy.service";
in
lib.elem p leafUnit.after && lib.elem p leafUnit.wants && !(lib.elem p (leafUnit.requires or [ ]));
}
{
name = "a queue host whose store is elsewhere orders its leaf unit after no policy unit";
ok =
let
u = queueNoStore.systemd.services.swarm-bao-nats-tls;
in
!(lib.elem "swarm-bao-nats-tls-policy.service" u.after)
&& !(lib.elem "swarm-bao-nats-tls-policy.service" u.wants);
}
];
in
runGroup "nats-tls" cases