hyperhive/swarm-builder

swarm-builder

The swarm builder's build service, in the swarm-builder container on the host that sets deploy.builder.enable. The design is docs/swarm/builder.md.

swarm-controller sends one request per config PR head: an agent, a commit and the PR. This service builds that agent config on the agent base this host was deployed with, through the host's nix daemon, and answers with the system closure's store path or the tail of what nix printed. The controller turns the answer into a swarm-builder commit status on the PR's head.

What a build is

• nix build of nix/builder/check-flake's check output, with its three inputs overridden: hyperhive and nixpkgs to this host's own sources, and agent to git+https://<forge>/agent-configs/<agent>?ref=refs/pull/<pr>/head&rev=<rev>.
• The evaluation runs here, pure; the builds run in the host daemon's sandbox as an untrusted client, so a config can neither set daemon options nor read this service's environment.
• Nothing is pushed and nothing is recorded: the closure stays in the host's store until it is collected.

Credentials

The container holds one credential: its own store certificate, which nspawn hands in at start without a copy on disk. With it the service reads its queue client secret at start and again when authelia refuses it, and its read-only forge token at every build. git gets the token through a credential helper reading the child's environment, never in a URL or an argument, and the helper answers only an https request for the forge's host. Its store role reads exactly those two paths.