hyperhive/swarm-controller
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iris e7f4a19939 swarm-ui: real hive-roster overview page
Fixes hyperhive#3223.

swarm-controller: GET /api/hives (utoipa-annotated same as /health),
serving the swarm's hive directory (name + domain) loaded once at
startup from a new SWARM_CONTROLLER_HIVES env var. The controller's
NixOS module sets it from services.hyperhive.swarm.hives, JSON-encoded
the same way hive-c0re already builds HYPERHIVE_PEERS for its own peer
list (environment.nix) — the full directory here rather than
peers-minus-self, since a swarm-level daemon has no 'self' hive to
exclude. Unset/malformed both fall back to an empty list with a
warning rather than failing startup, so /health stays answerable even
if this one env var is wrong.

swarm-ui: App.tsx's Home route fetches /api/hives and renders it
through the already-merged <Table>/<StatusChip>/<Panel> primitives —
name, domain (linking out to that hive's own gateway-routed
dashboard), and a static "configured" status chip until a real
online/stale/offline rollup exists server-side. Also gave swarm-ui a
base <a> color (theme's --blue) — base.css covers body/typography but
not links, and this is genuinely page-level rather than any one
component's concern.

Verified end to end, not just source-reading: ran the real
swarm-controller binary with SWARM_CONTROLLER_HIVES set, curled
/api/hives + /health over its actual unix socket; separately served
the real swarm-ui dist against a mock /api/hives and screenshotted the
rendered table. Also re-verified the nginx wiring evaluates (same
throwaway nixosSystem eval technique as #3212) — SWARM_CONTROLLER_HIVES
resolves to the expected JSON shape.

cargo test/clippy -p swarm-controller clean (2 tests, including a new
load_hives one covering missing/malformed/valid env var states). npm
run build + typecheck clean.
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src swarm-ui: real hive-roster overview page 2026-08-13 11:21:30 +02:00
Cargo.toml swarm-ui: real hive-roster overview page 2026-08-13 11:21:30 +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.