The controller's forge client speaks TLS to `https://<forge domain>`,
which the gateway serves with a leaf signed by the hive CA. That CA is
generated at runtime, so nothing build-time can name it and it is not in
the system store -- and `reqwest`/`rustls` resolves roots through
`rustls-native-certs`, whose `SSL_CERT_FILE` *replaces* the store rather
than adding to it. With no bundle wired, every forge call failed
`invalid peer certificate: UnknownIssuer` and agent creation died at its
first step.
`lib/hive-ca-trust.nix` already solved this, but only for containers: it
sources the CA through `/run/hive-ca/trust-bundle.pem`, a bind mount that
does not exist on the host. `hostUnit` makes it read the host copy and
wait on `hive-tls-ca.service` itself -- one flag driving both, because a
host source without that ordering is a race.
`enable` is the other half, and it is the sharp edge: a container caller
imports this into the container's module set, so it disappears with the
container. A host caller imports it at the host's top level, where
`imports` is unconditional -- without the flag, a hive with the
controller turned off would get a bundle oneshot and a `swarm-controller`
service conjured by `genAttrs`, holding an `SSL_CERT_FILE` and no
`ExecStart`.
Last of the three modules that hand-rolled the same concat with wantedBy +
before and no requires, so a failed assembly left the consumer running against
a missing file and trusting nothing -- every outbound TLS call fails while the
unit looks healthy.
The forge is the one with two consumers: forgejo-sso-source fetches the
issuer's discovery document over the swarm CA and once shipped without the
trust its sibling had. It only exists when SSO is on, so the consumer list is
conditional -- naming an absent unit would define a serviceless one and order
nothing.
Removes the now-dead useSelfSigned and caContainerPath bindings (nix does not
warn) and retargets three comments the deletion orphaned, including the helper
header that still named this module as the per-call-site concat.
The responder introspects authelia over https by name. It had no CA trust
at all, so the handshake failed UnknownIssuer, introspection failed, and it
denied every client -- surfacing at the controller as a 60s
authorization-violation loop, two layers from the cause.
Adds a shared trustBundle helper to lib/hive-ca-trust.nix rather than a
fifth hand-rolled concat. Four containers were each assembling this
themselves, which is how they came to share one defect: wantedBy + before
express ordering but not success, so a failed assembly let the consumer
start against a missing file and trust nothing at all.
The helper fixes both halves of that. requires goes on the consumer, so a
failed bundle stops it and the dependency is visible in systemctl status
where someone debugging a TLS failure looks. And the script assembles to a
temp path, checks the result actually contains a certificate, and only then
moves it into place -- cat of an empty bind exits 0, so set -e does not
catch it and a partial bundle must never appear under the final name.
Returns a module rather than bare services: a caller that already writes
systemd.services.<consumer> cannot also write systemd.services in the same
attrset.
Cross-hive trust was O(n²) hand-pinning: every hive had to name every
peer's CA. A swarm root makes it O(1) — trust the root once and every
present and future peer validates.
The root is generated by a new `swarm-ca` unit on a single-host swarm
and operator-provided otherwise; `swarm.ca.autoConfigure` picks between
them and derives its default from `swarm.peers` being empty, so "all on
one host" is read off the deployment rather than remembered. Both modes
produce the same artifacts in the same places, so splitting hosts later
is moving the service dirs, not switching code paths. The root key never
enters the nix store, and the root is never regenerated automatically —
replacing it invalidates every peer at once.
Each hive CA carries `nameConstraints` pinned to that hive's domain, so
a leaked hive CA can only mint names inside its own subdomain, enforced
by verifiers rather than by convention.
`ca.pem` was serving as both the issuer and the anchor consumers trust;
those are the same file only while it is self-signed. openssl will not
terminate a chain at a trusted cert that isn't self-signed (rustls and
Go will), so the promotion would have broken some consumers and not
others. `hive-tls-ca` now also writes `trust-bundle.pem` — the hive CA
plus whatever it is rooted at — and every anchor consumer reads that:
agents, the CI and forge containers, and the peer-config recipe. On a
hive with no swarm root the bundle is just that CA, so nothing consuming
it needs a mode to branch on.
hive-ci and hive-forge both bind the runtime-generated hive CA cert
read-only and order their container@ unit after hive-tls-ca.service so
the bind source exists before nspawn sets the mount up — the same
bind-mount + ordering + rationale duplicated verbatim in two modules.
Extract that language-agnostic half into a pure helper,
nix/host-modules/lib/hive-ca-trust.nix, taking a container name and
returning { useSelfSigned, caContainerPath, bindMount, containerOrdering }.
The per-runtime consumption stays at each call site (hive-ci's additive
NODE_EXTRA_CA_CERTS, hive-forge's Go SSL_CERT_FILE concat). hive-ci folds
containerOrdering into its existing mkMerge alongside the TimeoutStartSec
bump.
The helper is a pure function, not a module: host-modules/default.nix is
an explicit aggregator (not a glob) and the docs eval imports that same
aggregator, so the lib/ file is never picked up as a module. A third
outbound-TLS-trusting container no longer means a third copy-paste.
