hyperhive/swarm-controller
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atlas a9603214c2 refactor(swarm-queue-client): extract the queue connect into a shared crate
A hive publishing its own status needs the same connect the controller
already has - mint an authelia token, present it at CONNECT for the
callout responder, let async-nats re-run the callback per attempt. Only
the use differs: the controller reads, a hive writes.

Copying it would put credential handling in two places, and a
token-refresh fix would then have to be found twice. That is the same
reasoning that already put hive-sock-client in its own crate rather than
in each daemon that speaks to a unix socket.

`from_env` takes a prefix rather than hardcoding SWARM_CONTROLLER_*: the
variables belong to the consuming unit, since a NixOS module sets them
alongside its other options. What is shared is the RULE - all four
together or none at all - not the spelling. The half-set case gains a
test, because it is the case the rule exists for and it previously had
none.

No jetstream/kv feature on the crate: it ends at a connected client, and
what a consumer does with it should be visible in that consumer's own
Cargo.toml.

Behaviour-preserving, and proven that way rather than by inspection: the
full behavioural gate (real nats-server, credential rotation, mutation)
is 20/0 unchanged, and the controller's own tests still pass.
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src refactor(swarm-queue-client): extract the queue connect into a shared crate 2026-08-16 12:47:22 +02:00
Cargo.toml refactor(swarm-queue-client): extract the queue connect into a shared crate 2026-08-16 12:47:22 +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.