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iris 4828c96957 swarm-controller: OpenAPI spec + gateway swagger UI wiring
Rust half mirrors hive-c0re/src/dashboard/mod.rs's utoipa pattern
exactly: an ApiDoc root, #[utoipa::path(...)] on /health (the one
existing route), and a raw JSON route at /api/openapi.json served
via OpenApiRouter::split_for_parts(). Only annotated routes appear
in the spec.

Gateway wiring extends the swarm-UI vhost (the only vhost swarm-
controller is reachable from) with:
- /api/ — proxied to the controller's unix socket untouched (no URI
  segment after the socket path), so a route swarm-controller
  registers is the path nginx forwards, no prefix-stripping to keep
  in sync by hand.
- /api/docs/ (+ the bare /api/docs redirect) — the same
  swagger-ui-theme dist the per-hive dashboard already serves at its
  own /api/docs/, reused as-is since it's generic.

Both new locations reuse the same auth_request block the vhost's own
'/' already applies, factored into a shared swarmAuthRequest string —
auth_request does not inherit across sibling nginx locations, so
without this the page itself would be gated while its own API and
API docs sat open.

cargo test -p swarm-controller + cargo clippy --all-targets both
clean. Verified the new nginx wiring evaluates correctly with a
throwaway nixosSystem eval (services.hyperhive.swarm.{controller,ui}
enabled): /api/ proxies to the socket, /api/docs redirects, and both
require auth_request the same as the vhost root.

Fixes hyperhive#3212
2026-08-12 21:36:01 +02:00
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src swarm-controller: OpenAPI spec + gateway swagger UI wiring 2026-08-12 21:36:01 +02:00
Cargo.toml swarm-controller: OpenAPI spec + gateway swagger UI wiring 2026-08-12 21:36:01 +02:00
README.md docs(gateway): describe what is, not what changed 2026-08-11 18:09:51 +02:00

swarm-controller

The swarm-level daemon. Where hive-c0re owns the agents on one host, this owns what is true across hives — so a swarm runs one of them and most hives leave it off.

Opt-in per host via services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.enable, which is deliberately not derived from services.hyperhive.enable: turning it on is a statement about swarm topology, not about whether hyperhive is installed.

What it does today

Serves one /health endpoint and holds no state.

That is the whole intent of the first slice. The point is to make the unit real — service user, runtime and state directories, socket, nginx reachability — so the swarm-level surfaces that follow have somewhere to land. Inventing those surfaces before they are agreed would bake in a shape nobody chose. See #3066 and the hyperhive.swarm consolidation epic.

Why a unix socket, not a port

The hive-gateway's nginx is the only intended client and reaches the socket through a bind-mount. A listener that is never bound to an address cannot be reached from off-host by mistake.

The socket path is services.hyperhive.swarm.controller.socketPath, default /run/swarm-controller/controller.sock, exported to the process as SWARM_CONTROLLER_SOCKET.

⚠️ The socket's directory is its access control

The socket is 0666. It has to be: nginx runs as a different user and connect(2) needs write. This matches how hive-c0re publishes the per-agent sockets, and rests on the same argument — "the bind source dir is per-agent on host so blast radius is unchanged."

What keeps that safe is that the directory holds one socket. So:

Never point socketPath at a directory that carries anything else. /run/hyperhive above all — it holds host.sock, the host admin socket. Pointing nginx at that directory to reach this socket would put the admin socket within its reach too.

nginx is a host service, so nothing narrows what it can reach except the directory itself — that is the whole of the access control. A unit test pins the default path so a tidying edit fails instead of reviewing cleanly.

RuntimeDirectoryPreserve=yes and the daemon's stale-socket unlink on start are a pair: preserving the directory without the unlink means bind fails with EADDRINUSE after a restart.

Packaging

Built by the workspace derivation and extracted as its own package (nix build .#swarm-controller). Deliberately not in nix/packages' daemonBins — that list is the core stack and drives the bundle services.hyperhive.c0re.package points at, so folding this in would put a swarm-scoped service into every hive's closure.