hyperhive/nix/host-modules/glue-queue-agent-credential.nix
atlas d3e4951cc8 swarm-bao: refuse a remote reader that named seven of the eight leaves
The four-way client-cert split gives each store reader its own leaf, and
three of the four readers render only where their own leaf exists. On a
host that mints its own PKI glue-bao-tls.nix defaults all eight, so there
is nothing to do; on a hand-configured remote-store hive, omitting one
pair used to mean that unit silently did not render — a privilege-
narrowing unit absent from a green build, with the missing unit as the
only evidence.

Each of the three now asserts its own pair, shaped after
swarm-grafana.nix's haveClientIdentity assertion and named to the pair it
needs. What differs from Grafana's is the gate: these fire only where the
host demonstrably reads the store (it holds deploy.bao.clientCertFile and
clientKeyFile) and the consumer is on. A host with no store identity is
the supported no-store deployment and still evaluates; the collector's
no-secret degrade is untouched, because that host holds no clientCertFile
either.

Also rewords three passive-voice sentences in docs/swarm/secrets.md that
vale flagged, and documents what the refusal costs and where it stays
silent.
2026-09-23 10:11:42 +02:00

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# Glue: this hive's agent queue credential comes out of the secret store.
#
# The store's second reader, and deliberately the same shape as its first
# (./glue-matrix-bao-token.nix): a cert login that fails LOUDLY because every
# state it fails on is one a retry fixes, then a read that degrades QUIETLY
# because no retry turns "no value there" into a value.
#
# ⚠️ Two files, not one, and that is the consumer's shape rather than a
# preference. `swarm_queue_client::QueueConfig::from_env` takes the secret as
# a PATH (`<prefix>_OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET_FILE`) and the client id as a VALUE
# (`<prefix>_OIDC_CLIENT_ID`), so splitting them here is what lets the next
# slice hand both to an agent without parsing anything.
#
# ⚠️ An ABSENT file means this hive's agents do not connect to the queue, and
# that is correct rather than degraded. The publisher runs on the authelia
# host and authelia mints on its first boot, so "nothing at that path yet" is
# the ordinary early state of a swarm. Nothing here writes a local stand-in:
# unlike a matrix appservice token there is no such thing as a locally valid
# OIDC client secret, so a placeholder would turn a hive that cannot connect
# into one that is refused, which reaches the agent as a timeout.
#
# 📌 This runs wherever a client identity is configured, NOT only where the
# store is — the rule ./glue-matrix-bao-token.nix states in full. There is no
# "this hive runs agents" condition to gate it on as well: agent containers
# are created at runtime by hive-c0re, so every hyperhive host is a host that
# may run one.
{
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.
#
# 🩸 This principal's OWN leaf, not `clientCertFile` — the hive's, which four
# units used to share. Bao matches a cert-auth role on the CN, so one leaf for
# four readers was ONE principal holding the union of four grants: read on
# `swarm/agents/*` AND `swarm/hives/<hive>/*` AND `swarm/services/*`, when
# this unit reads one queue credential and nothing else. Its own leaf carries
# `<queueAgentCommonNamePrefix>-<hive>` and its role grants the single path
# below — still this hive's own, so the narrowing costs no reach.
haveClientIdentity =
baoDeploy.queueAgentClientCertFile != null && baoDeploy.queueAgentClientKeyFile != null;
# Does this host read the store at all — the hive's own leaf, which is the
# one thing a remote-store deployment has always had to place by hand. Only
# used to decide whether a missing per-principal leaf is a mistake or a
# deployment that has no store: a host holding neither is the supported
# no-store shape, and one holding this pair but not the pair above named
# seven of the eight options and stopped.
hiveReaderIdentity = baoDeploy.clientCertFile != null && baoDeploy.clientKeyFile != null;
credentialDir = toString deployCfg.hive-controller.queue.agentCredentialDir;
secretFile = "${credentialDir}/secret";
clientIdFile = "${credentialDir}/client_id";
# Where the credential lives in the store, spelled from the same pieces the
# writer uses. Whoever writes it and whoever reads it must agree, and the
# agreement belongs in one visible place.
#
# ⚠️ The `hives/<name>` segment is not decoration — it is what the reader's
# own grant covers, so a path outside it is a 403 rather than a miss, however
# correct it looks. `swarm-secret-client`'s `queue::agent_client_path` builds
# the same string from the same pieces; this literal is the nix half of that
# one agreement.
#
# `hiveName` has no fallback here for the reason ./glue-bao-tls.nix gives at
# its own use of it: it is asserted set for every hyperhive host.
credentialPath = "secret/swarm/hives/${hyperhiveCfg.hiveName}/queue/agent";
in
{
options.services.hyperhive.deploy.hive-controller.queue = {
agentCredentialDir = lib.mkOption {
type = lib.types.path;
default = "/var/lib/hyperhive/queue-agent";
description = ''
Host directory holding this hive's agent queue credential: `secret`
(the OIDC client secret, `0600`) and `client_id` (the client that
secret authenticates, `0644` it is sent to the token endpoint on
every connection and is not itself a secret).
Both files are written by `swarm-bao-queue-agent.service`, which also
creates this directory. Named here because nothing else creates it:
the parent `/var/lib/hyperhive` belongs to `hive-c0re.service`'s
`StateDirectory=`, which re-applies its own mode on every start, and a
second declaration of *that* path is the two-mechanisms-one-path trap
./hive-gateway/default.nix records so this directory is the unit's
to make and the parent stays c0re's.
Absent files mean this hive has no queue credential yet, which is what
a swarm looks like before the publisher on the authelia host has run.
'';
};
};
config = lib.mkMerge [
# ⚠️ A SEPARATE arm from the unit below, and that separation is the whole
# mechanism: the unit's arm is gated on `haveClientIdentity`, so an
# assertion written inside it could never be reached in the state it
# exists to report.
#
# Shaped after ./swarm-grafana.nix's `haveClientIdentity` assertion — the
# same refusal, named to this principal's own pair. Where Grafana's gate
# is `deploy.grafana.enable`, this reader has no toggle of its own to
# check: every hive runs one for its own agents, so reading the store at
# all is what asks for it. Hence `hiveReaderIdentity` alone — a host
# holding no hive leaf has no store to read and nothing is missing.
(lib.mkIf (hyperhiveCfg.enable && hiveReaderIdentity) {
assertions = [
{
assertion = haveClientIdentity;
message = ''
This host reads the swarm secret store (services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.clientCertFile
is set), so it needs the agent queue credential reader's own client
identity: set both
services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.queueAgentClientCertFile
services.hyperhive.deploy.bao.queueAgentClientKeyFile
swarm-bao-queue-agent.service fetches this hive's agent queue
credential out of the store, and without these it is not rendered
at all leaving hive-c0re with no queue credential and no unit
that would ever have written one.
Every hive runs this reader for its own agents, so unlike the other
three principals there is no per-service toggle that turns it off:
a hive that reads the store at all is a hive that needs this pair.
This reader's OWN leaf, not deploy.bao.clientCertFile. That one
is the hive's, and its grant reads every secret in the store; this
role reads the one queue-credential path. Pointing this option at
the hive's leaf would evaluate, deploy and log in and undo the
split.
On a hive that runs the store, glue-bao-tls.nix supplies both as
defaults and there is nothing to do. Elsewhere the leaf is issued
from that CA out of band and named here see docs/swarm/secrets.md.
'';
}
];
})
(lib.mkIf (hyperhiveCfg.enable && haveClientIdentity) {
# Same rule as the unit's own gate: this reader exists on any host holding
# a client identity, which is not every host that runs the store, so the
# store's module cannot name it.
services.hyperhive.swarm.otel.journaldUnits = [ "swarm-bao-queue-agent" ];
systemd.services.swarm-bao-queue-agent = {
description = "fetch this hive's agent queue credential 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@${baoCfg.machine}.service" ];
requires = lib.optionals baoDeploy.enable [ "swarm-bao-pki.service" ];
# Ordered before hive-c0re, so no agent container renders ahead of an
# attempt at its credential. `Wants=`, not `Requires=`: a store this
# unit can't reach delays hive-c0re's start by its own start-limit
# window (`TimeoutStartSec`, retried up to `startLimitBurst` times
# below) rather than failing it — hive-c0re starts once that window
# elapses, whatever credential is or isn't on disk by then.
before = [ "hive-c0re.service" ];
wantedBy = [
"multi-user.target"
"hive-c0re.service"
];
path = [
baoDeploy.package
pkgs.coreutils
];
# Sized for the race this loses, not for an unseal: `swarm-bao` comes up
# seconds before this unit asks, and the cert-auth role it logs in
# against is written seconds after, so a few short attempts cover it.
# An hours-long window would be a bet on a store that is sealed, and the
# degrade below is already correct for that.
#
# `StartLimit*` are `[Unit]` settings, so they go here and not in
# `serviceConfig` — systemd ignores them under `[Service]`. The window
# has to exceed `RestartSec × burst`.
startLimitBurst = 4;
startLimitIntervalSec = 300;
serviceConfig = {
Type = "oneshot";
RemainAfterExit = true;
# What actually bounds the reads below. Stated here rather than left to
# systemd's default, so the number a boot waits on is in the file that
# waits.
TimeoutStartSec = 30;
Restart = "on-failure";
RestartSec = 15;
};
environment = {
BAO_ADDR = "https://${baoCfg.domain}:${toString baoCfg.port}";
BAO_CLIENT_CERT = baoDeploy.queueAgentClientCertFile;
BAO_CLIENT_KEY = baoDeploy.queueAgentClientKeyFile;
}
# Absent means the system trust store, which is what a deployment with a
# real CA wants and what a self-signed one must not be left with.
// lib.optionalAttrs (baoDeploy.serverCaFile != null) {
BAO_CACERT = baoDeploy.serverCaFile;
};
script = ''
set -euo pipefail
# `bao`'s own message is the only thing separating a missing value from
# a refused identity from an unreachable host. This unit's degraded
# mode is correct for all three, so it reports which one rather than
# asserting all three in a sentence of ours.
err="$(mktemp)"
trap 'rm -f "$err"' EXIT
# Cert auth is a login, not a transport setting. The `BAO_CLIENT_*`
# variables above only decide which certificate the TLS handshake
# presents; without a token `bao` asks its token helper instead, and
# that is a `sh` this unit's `path` does not carry. `-token-only`
# answers on stdout and skips the helper on both sides.
#
# Fails LOUDLY, unlike the reads below: the three states a login
# failure covers store not up, sealed, role not written yet are all
# things a retry fixes, and `Restart=on-failure` above is what retries.
if ! BAO_TOKEN="$(bao login -method=cert -token-only 2>"$err")"; then
echo "could not log in to swarm-bao with this host's certificate; leaving the queue credential in ${credentialDir} as it is." >&2
if [ -s "$err" ]; then
cat "$err" >&2
else
echo "bao failed without writing a diagnostic." >&2
fi
exit 1
fi
export BAO_TOKEN
# Two reads of one object rather than one `-format=json` parsed with
# `jq`: no sibling unit carries `jq` on its `path`, and the pair cannot
# actually disagree the client id is derived from this hive's name, so
# a rotation landing between these two calls changes the secret and
# rewrites the same id.
if ! secret="$(bao kv get -field=value ${lib.escapeShellArg credentialPath} 2>"$err")"; then
echo "swarm-bao did not return ${credentialPath}; this hive's agents have no queue credential yet." >&2
if [ -s "$err" ]; then
cat "$err" >&2
else
echo "bao failed without writing a diagnostic." >&2
fi
exit 0
fi
if ! client_id="$(bao kv get -field=client_id ${lib.escapeShellArg credentialPath} 2>"$err")"; then
echo "${credentialPath} holds no client_id; the secret alone is not a usable credential, so nothing is written." >&2
if [ -s "$err" ]; then
cat "$err" >&2
else
echo "bao failed without writing a diagnostic." >&2
fi
exit 0
fi
# Both or neither, for the reason `QueueConfig::from_env` refuses a
# half-set environment: a client that finds one of the two comes up
# "fine" and never connects.
if [ -z "$secret" ] || [ -z "$client_id" ]; then
echo "swarm-bao returned an empty field of ${credentialPath}; leaving the files as they are." >&2
exit 0
fi
install -d -m 0755 ${lib.escapeShellArg credentialDir}
umask 077
printf '%s\n' "$secret" > ${lib.escapeShellArg secretFile}
chmod 0600 ${lib.escapeShellArg secretFile}
# `0644` on purpose: an OIDC client id is presented to the token
# endpoint on every connection and is public by construction.
printf '%s\n' "$client_id" > ${lib.escapeShellArg clientIdFile}
chmod 0644 ${lib.escapeShellArg clientIdFile}
'';
};
})
];
}