# 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 is hand-pinned today # (`swarm.peers..caCert`), so every hive must name every peer — O(n²) # configuration that a new hive can only join by editing all the others. # One root makes it O(1): trust the root once and every present *and # future* peer validates. # # Two provisioning modes, ONE structure — what differs is who puts the # artifacts on disk, never what the artifacts are: # # - autoconfigured (the default while the hive declares no peers): 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 has the opposite property, and is already distributed at # build time via `swarm.peers..caCert`. That asymmetry is what makes # the layering work at all. { 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"; in { options.services.hyperhive.swarm.ca = { autoConfigure = lib.mkOption { type = lib.types.bool; default = hyperhiveCfg.enableAllLocalDefaults; defaultText = lib.literalExpression "services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults"; 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. Defaults from `services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults`, the all-on-one-box switch — which is off, so this is off, and the paragraph below still describes what a hive does by default. Set it 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 — this is what a peer hive is pointed at via `swarm.peers..caCert`) 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. ''; }; 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" ''; }; }; }