hyperhive/nix/host-modules/glue-matrix-bao-token.nix
atlas d7ca8d922b glue-matrix-bao-token: say why the store returned nothing
The reader had one failure branch, and it could not fail. It named three
states — the store holds nothing, the store is sealed, the store is
unreachable — treated all three as success, and sent bao's stderr to
/dev/null, which is the only thing that tells them apart.

The degraded mode is right and is unchanged: a missing registration token
means new agent accounts cannot be provisioned and nothing else breaks,
so this still exits 0 and leaves the local token alone. What changes is
that the journal now carries the store's own message instead of a
sentence of ours asserting all three at once.

Deliberately not branching on that message. Distinguishing "no value
found" from "permission denied" programmatically would mean matching
prose from an external tool that I cannot reach a live instance of to
confirm, which is inventing a discriminator rather than reporting one.

Nothing asserted this script before — eleven module-eval cases cover the
unit's existence and its ordering, none its contents, which is how the
branch stayed. The case added here covers the property that was missing.

Gated: `96 module properties hold`, exit 0 (95 on the base commit, +1 =
the case added). `nix fmt` reported 0 changed over 723 files emitted in a
fresh worktree. Tracker-tag, comment-block and doc-pointer lints all exit
0 after staging.
2026-09-12 03:43:38 +02:00

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# Glue: the matrix registration token comes from the secret store.
#
# The store's first reader, and deliberately a small one. It fetches an opaque
# 32-byte value and writes it where ./hive-matrix.nix already looks — the
# homeserver never learns the store exists, and its config is unchanged.
#
# ⚠️ Why this credential first. It has no second file and no format: authelia's
# OIDC secret needs a `.secret` *and* a matching `.digest`, so shipping that
# one first would debug "can a reader authenticate and get bytes back" and
# "did we write authelia's file format right" at the same time, with an SSO
# outage as the failure mode. Here the failure is narrow — new agent accounts
# cannot be provisioned, existing ones are untouched, nothing crash-loops.
#
# ⚠️ The fallback is today's behaviour, not a new one. `hive-matrix.nix`'s
# activation script still mints a token when the file is absent; this unit
# overwrites it with the swarm's copy when the store has one. A store that is
# empty or unreachable leaves a working hive with a local token.
#
# 📌 This runs wherever a client identity is configured, NOT only where the
# store is. `deploy.bao.enable` would have been the co-location assumption
# itself; the reader needs a certificate, not a neighbour. On the store's own
# host ./glue-bao-tls.nix supplies one as a `mkDefault` and nothing changes;
# elsewhere an operator places the leaf and names it, and the same unit works.
{
pkgs,
lib,
config,
...
}:
let
hyperhiveCfg = config.services.hyperhive;
deployCfg = hyperhiveCfg.deploy;
baoCfg = hyperhiveCfg.swarm.bao;
baoDeploy = deployCfg.bao;
# What decides whether this unit exists at all. A reader is defined by holding
# a certificate the store accepts, and that is true on the store's own host
# and on a hive three networks away for exactly the same reason.
haveClientIdentity = baoDeploy.clientCertFile != null && baoDeploy.clientKeyFile != null;
# Where the token lives in the store. A path, not a convention to guess at:
# whoever writes it and whoever reads it must agree, and the agreement
# belongs in one visible place.
tokenPath = "secret/swarm/matrix/registration-token";
# A literal, not an option — ./hive-matrix.nix names its container
# `containers.hive-matrix` directly and declares no `machine` to derive it
# from, which the trust-bundle call in that file already says out loud.
# ⚠️ A `swarm.matrix.machine` read parses fine and fails at module-system
# resolution, so this is the kind of mistake only reading the target module
# catches.
matrixMachine = "hive-matrix";
in
{
config = lib.mkIf (hyperhiveCfg.enable && haveClientIdentity && deployCfg.matrix.enable) {
# Same rule as the unit's own gate: this reader exists on a host that has a
# client identity and a homeserver, which is not every host that runs the
# store, so the store's module cannot name it.
services.hyperhive.swarm.otel.journaldUnits = [ "swarm-bao-matrix-token" ];
systemd.services.swarm-bao-matrix-token = {
description = "fetch the matrix registration token from the swarm secret store";
# Every one of these names a unit that exists only where the store runs.
# `Requires=` on an absent unit fails the job outright, so the ordering is
# conditional even though the read is not: off-host there is nothing local
# to wait for, and the timeout below is what bounds the attempt instead.
after = lib.optionals baoDeploy.enable [
"swarm-bao-pki.service"
"container@${baoCfg.machine}.service"
];
wants = lib.optionals baoDeploy.enable [ "container@${baoCfg.machine}.service" ];
requires = lib.optionals baoDeploy.enable [ "swarm-bao-pki.service" ];
before = [ "container@${matrixMachine}.service" ];
wantedBy = [ "container@${matrixMachine}.service" ];
path = [
deployCfg.bao.package
pkgs.coreutils
];
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
# What actually bounds the read below. Stated here rather than
# left to systemd's default, so the number a boot waits on is in
# the file that waits.
TimeoutStartSec = 30;
};
environment = {
BAO_ADDR = "https://${baoCfg.domain}:${toString baoCfg.port}";
BAO_CLIENT_CERT = baoDeploy.clientCertFile;
BAO_CLIENT_KEY = baoDeploy.clientKeyFile;
}
# Absent means the system trust store, which is what a deployment with a
# real CA wants and what a self-signed one must not be left with.
// lib.optionalAttrs (baoDeploy.serverCaFile != null) {
BAO_CACERT = baoDeploy.serverCaFile;
};
script = ''
set -euo pipefail
# A sealed or uninitialised store answers on the port and never
# answers the read, so "the store is up" is not the same as "the
# store can answer". `TimeoutStartSec` above is the bound; the
# homeserver only `Wants=` this unit, so hitting it degrades to
# keeping the local token rather than holding up the container.
# `bao`'s own message is the only thing separating a missing value
# from a refused identity from an unreachable host. This unit's
# degraded mode is correct for all three, so it reports which one
# rather than asserting all three in a sentence of ours a reader
# that cannot say why it read nothing is indistinguishable from a
# broken one.
err="$(mktemp)"
trap 'rm -f "$err"' EXIT
if ! token="$(bao kv get -field=value ${lib.escapeShellArg tokenPath} 2>"$err")"; then
echo "swarm-bao did not return ${tokenPath}; keeping the token hive-matrix already has." >&2
if [ -s "$err" ]; then
cat "$err" >&2
else
echo "bao failed without writing a diagnostic." >&2
fi
exit 0
fi
if [ -z "$token" ]; then
echo "swarm-bao returned an empty ${tokenPath}; keeping the local token." >&2
exit 0
fi
umask 077
printf '%s\n' "$token" > ${lib.escapeShellArg (toString deployCfg.matrix.registrationTokenFile)}
chmod 0600 ${lib.escapeShellArg (toString deployCfg.matrix.registrationTokenFile)}
'';
};
};
}