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The three supported shapes were described in pieces across the swarm docs, so a reader assembling them got a different answer depending on which page they landed on. They live in services.md now, and the other pages point at it. Split out of #3719 at mara's request: that PR also rewrites the snapshot-store doc, which is a separate argument.
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# Swarm-wide services
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Some things exist once per **swarm**, not once per hive: the forge, the
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matrix homeserver, the SSO provider, the CA. Two options say where the
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optional ones live, and everything else derives:
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```nix
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services.hyperhive.enableAllLocalDefaults = true; # everything on this box
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# or, for a dedicated services host with hives elsewhere:
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services.hyperhive.swarm.enableRequiredServices = true;
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```
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`enableAllLocalDefaults` is the all-on-one-box switch: it defaults both
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`swarm.enableRequiredServices` (the shared services run here) and
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`swarm.ca.autoConfigure` (the swarm CA is generated here). Each derived
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toggle can still be set on its own, so "all local except X" needs no
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further option.
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**Both default to off**, and that is deliberate: a host cannot tell
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whether it is meant to be the swarm's service host, so this is an
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operator saying so rather than something inferred. With them off, a hive
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is a *client* of those services — it configures how to reach them and
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runs none of them.
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The forge is the exception, and not because it is per-hive: it is
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swarm-wide but **not optional**, being the canonical store for the meta
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flake and every agent's config repo, so it deploys with hyperhive itself
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and has no `enable` to derive from anything.
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## Deployment shapes
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Those two options are what makes the difference between deployments, so
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the shapes worth naming are the ones they produce:
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- **All-local.** Everything on one machine:
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`enableAllLocalDefaults = true`. Setup is automatic apart from
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choosing a domain and creating the first user.
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- **Services on the swarm controller host.**
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`swarm.enableRequiredServices = true` there; the required services
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deploy together on that host, with hives elsewhere.
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- **Fully spread out.** One container / VM / machine per service,
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somewhere.
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**These are a set, not a ladder with a correct top, and in-between
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shapes are supported.** Each derived toggle can be set on its own (see
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above), which is what makes "all local except X" a configuration rather
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than an unsupported edge case. Nothing in hyperhive prescribes a
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deployment model, so a doc that treats one shape as the real one and
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the others as compromises is wrong about the system rather than
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opinionated.
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The practical consequence is that **co-location is normal**: in the
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first two shapes services share a host by design. Where a specific
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service has something to say about sharing a host --- extra
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requirements, or a cost worth weighing --- that belongs in the doc for
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that service, not here.
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## Services
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### SSO (authelia)
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One authelia per swarm, in a `swarm-authelia` container, at
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`auth.<swarm-domain>`. Operator and agents are both subjects of the same
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provider, differentiated by roles and claims rather than by mechanism —
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there is one IdP and one auth path.
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- **`deploy.authelia`** — run the container here. Defaults from
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`swarm.enableRequiredServices`.
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- **`swarm.authelia.url`** — where clients are sent to authenticate.
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Present on **every** hive, defaulting to this host's own instance only
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when this module is the thing running it; otherwise `null`, and a hive
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joining someone else's swarm sets it explicitly. Null means "no SSO
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configured", and consumers say so rather than guessing an address.
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The users database is written by swarm-controller, not by hand: agents
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are created and destroyed continuously, so the subject set is dynamic.
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This module only guarantees the file exists and parses, so authelia
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starts with nobody in it rather than failing to start — a provider with
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no subjects yet is the correct state before anything has provisioned
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them. Session and storage keys are generated in the container on first
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boot and never rotated automatically; replacing one invalidates data
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already written (sessions, the encrypted store), so that is an operator
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action.
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Storage is local sqlite and the notifier writes to a file. Both are
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small-deployment choices, and the scope is the justification: redis
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buys shared session state across replicas and there is one instance;
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SMTP exists to mail humans, and provisioning here is programmatic.
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See [`sso.md`](sso.md) for bootstrapping the first user and the OIDC
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relying-party flow, and [`secrets.md`](secrets.md) for where each of
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authelia's keys is generated and read.
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### Metrics (VictoriaMetrics + Grafana)
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The swarm's telemetry lands in one VictoriaMetrics and is read through
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one Grafana, in two containers at `metrics.<swarm-domain>` and
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`grafana.<swarm-domain>`. Two containers rather than one so Grafana can
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be restarted or broken without taking the time-series database with it.
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Both follow `swarm.enableRequiredServices` like authelia and matrix, so
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the swarm's service host gets them with everything else. They derive
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together: a store with no UI is unreadable and a UI with no store is
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empty. To run one without the other, set it directly:
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```nix
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services.hyperhive.deploy.victoriametrics.enable = true;
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services.hyperhive.deploy.grafana.enable = false;
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```
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⚠️ **This starts a database that grows for as long as the swarm runs.**
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See `retentionPeriod` below before leaving it at its default.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| `swarm.victoriametrics.retentionPeriod` | Default `5y`. Lower it once you have measured how fast this swarm actually fills a disk — the default is deliberately generous because too-short silently discards history you cannot get back. |
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| `swarm.grafana.oidc.role` | Default `Admin` for everyone who logs in. Lower to `Viewer`/`Editor` if the swarm grows operators who should not be able to reconfigure Grafana. |
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| `swarm.grafana.datasourceUrl` | Only if you front VictoriaMetrics with something else. It defaults to the store on this host, which is the only thing it can reach. |
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**Logging in.** Grafana is behind swarm SSO, so the accounts are the
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authelia ones — there is no separate Grafana password, and the local
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login form is switched off whenever SSO is configured. If you enable
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Grafana on a host with no authelia, the form stays on and Grafana's
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default `admin`/`admin` applies; change it before exposing that host.
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**Where the data comes from.** The swarm's OTEL collector, below.
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Neither container is reachable except through the gateway: both bind
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loopback, and VictoriaMetrics' write endpoint takes no credential, so
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the collector is the only intended writer.
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### Logs (VictoriaLogs)
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The swarm's service containers ship their journals to one VictoriaLogs at
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`logs.<swarm-domain>`, behind the same SSO as everything else. It follows
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`swarm.enableRequiredServices` too, and the collector below is what writes
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to it.
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**Reading them.** Open Grafana, pick **Explore**, and choose the
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`VictoriaLogs` datasource — it is provisioned for you. Grafana's *Logs
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Drilldown* app is deliberately not installed: it only supports Loki, and
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no setting here changes that, so Explore is the log browser for this
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swarm.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| `swarm.victorialogs.retentionPeriod` | Default `30d`, far shorter than the metrics store's — logs are bulkier per unit of value and are usually read within days of being written. Raise it if you need to answer questions about last quarter. |
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| `swarm.victorialogs.domain` | Only to rename it. |
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| `swarm.victorialogs.port` | Only if something else on the services host already claims `9428`. |
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Like the metrics store, it binds loopback and takes no credential of its
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own: the gateway vhost is the only way in, and the collector is the only
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intended writer.
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### Telemetry collector (OTEL)
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The swarm's collector receives from every hive's own collector and is the
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only process that decides where telemetry goes: it writes the store above
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and exports to `otel.endpoint`, doing both when both are configured. It
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also holds the upstream credential, which is why no hive and no agent
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needs one.
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It follows `swarm.enableRequiredServices` like the services above, in a
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`swarm-otel` container. Its `swarm.otel.port` defaults to `4319` rather
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than OTLP's usual `4318`, which the hive tier already uses — swarm
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containers share the host's network namespace, so two collectors on one
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port is a coin toss at runtime rather than an error at build time.
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Every hive's own collector reaches this one by its gateway name,
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`swarm.otel.domain` (default `otel.<swarm domain>`) — the same
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by-domain-through-the-gateway shape every other swarm service uses, not a
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loopback URL an operator has to redirect. There is nothing to set on a hive
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that does not run the swarm's services; the name resolves through the
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gateway either way.
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| Option | When you'd touch it |
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| `swarm.otel.domain` | Only to rename it — the default already resolves correctly for every hive in the swarm. |
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| `swarm.otel.port` | Only if something else on the services host already claims `4319`. |
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With neither `otel.endpoint` nor the store enabled, this collector is
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refused at eval — a tier that receives samples and drops them looks
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healthy while losing data.
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Agent-side configuration, and what a hive's own collector does, are in
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[`../observability.md`](../observability.md).
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