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swarm-controller: re-issue agent certificates and re-mint queue secrets at half-life

A five-minute pass over every agent some hive's wanted state declares as
anything but destroyed queues, per agent:

- `MintAgentIdentity` (the node agent creation uses) when the stored
  certificate at swarm/agents/<agent>/bao-mtls is past half its validity,
  read from its own notBefore/notAfter: day 45 of the role's 90;
- the new `RenewAgentQueueCredential` node when the queue secret at
  swarm/agents/<agent>/queue is 45 days old or has no mint time. The node
  re-decides, writes a fresh value with `minted_at`, reads it back, and logs
  the agent and the old age.

When both are due the secret node runs after_any the certificate node,
because mint_and_verify compares the queue secret it read with the one it
reads back. A credential that is not stored is never created here.

`queue::AgentCredential` gains an optional `minted_at` (unix seconds);
agent creation now sets it. Stored objects without it decode unchanged and
count as due, so every existing queue secret is re-minted on the first pass.

Both replacements reach the agent at its next start. The old certificate
stays valid until it expires; the old queue secret does not, so a queue
reconnect before that restart is denied.

Adds x509-cert 0.2 (with der_derive and flagset) to read the validity.

docs/swarm/credentials.md: the renewal column splits into automatic re-mint
and automatic re-pull, filled from the code as it stands.
This commit is contained in:
atlas 2026-09-28 21:35:01 +02:00
commit 2115ec2bb3
10 changed files with 763 additions and 29 deletions

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@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
//! The authority is the store's own agent CA, generated inside its agent PKI
//! mount; its key never leaves the store. It signs no host leaf, and no host
//! role pins it, so an agent's certificate satisfies only that agent's role.
//! Nothing re-issues a leaf before it expires (the role's `ttl`); until a
//! renewal path exists, an operator re-runs agent creation.
//! [`crate::agent_renewal`] re-issues a live agent's leaf once it is past half
//! its validity (the role's `ttl`), by queueing the same node as creation.
use anyhow::{Context, Result, bail};
use swarm_secret_client::{
@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ const QUEUE_SECRET_BYTES: usize = 32;
/// When the kernel will not supply randomness. Bubbled rather than panicked
/// on: the caller is a job node that reports a named failure, and a secret
/// from a degraded source is worse than no secret.
fn generate_queue_secret() -> Result<String> {
pub(crate) fn generate_queue_secret() -> Result<String> {
let mut bytes = [0u8; QUEUE_SECRET_BYTES];
getrandom::fill(&mut bytes).context("drawing a queue secret from the kernel's CSPRNG")?;
Ok(base64::Engine::encode(
@ -130,7 +130,8 @@ fn generate_queue_secret() -> Result<String> {
/// ⚠️ **Step 3 is idempotent and steps 1–2 are not.** Re-running issues a
/// fresh leaf, picked up on the agent's next boot, but leaves an existing
/// queue secret alone: this is re-run against running agents, which hold that
/// secret in a live connection. Revoking one means deleting the path.
/// secret in a live connection. Revoking one means deleting the path;
/// replacing one by age is [`crate::agent_renewal`]'s.
///
/// # Errors
/// Anything that stops one of those five steps, with the step named. A
@ -161,15 +162,15 @@ pub async fn mint_and_verify(agent: &str) -> Result<()> {
.read_optional(&queue_path)
.await
.with_context(|| format!("checking whether {queue_path} already holds a credential"))?;
// The secret survives a re-run. An object naming a different agent is
// corrected by rewriting the name around the *same* `value`, which no live
// connection notices.
let wanted = queue::AgentCredential {
value: match &existing {
Some(existing) => existing.value.clone(),
None => generate_queue_secret()?,
// The secret and its mint time survive a re-run. An object naming a
// different agent is corrected by rewriting the name around the *same*
// `value`, which no live connection notices.
let wanted = match &existing {
Some(existing) => queue::AgentCredential {
agent: agent.to_owned(),
..existing.clone()
},
agent: agent.to_owned(),
None => crate::agent_renewal::fresh(agent, crate::agent_renewal::unix_now())?,
};
if existing.as_ref() == Some(&wanted) {
tracing::info!(