Two live incidents on archi-dev-box today, one bug. Both times a safety
decision read an ABSENT manifest field as if it were a value, and a
node's installed manifests always lag the binary — so "absent" is the
state of essentially every port on every node.
1. Gating any `session` port regardless of `bind` published Bitcoin's
loopback-only RPC 8332 on the LAN, Tailscale and IPv6 within seconds
of deploy.
2. The `bind`-keyed replacement looked safe because it protected
`bind: 127.0.0.1` ports — but LND's gRPC 10009 and REST 18080 carry
an EMPTY bind, so they fell through. One container recreate from
pinning them to loopback and breaking Zeus and every remote wallet.
`auth` is now `Option<PortAuth>`, separating two questions that were
conflated:
* `auth_policy()` — what to CLASSIFY the port as. Undeclared reports as
Session, i.e. shows in the audit as something that should be behind
the gate. Reporting is always safe.
* `auth_is_declared()` — whether the daemon may ACT. Only an explicit
declaration authorises changing how a port is published.
Also reverts the daemon-side publish rewriting entirely. The node proved
it wrong twice over: the recreate path that actually ran was in
package::install, not podman_client, so the pin never fired; and even
`bind: 127.0.0.1` written directly into the node's manifest was
overridden by the signed catalog. Publishes are built in several places
and all of them already honour `bind`, so the migration belongs in the
catalog as data — not in daemon-side inference that can only ever cover
one path and guess wrong on the rest.
Tests: 75/75 container, incl. the LND wallet-port shape (`host: 10009`,
empty bind, no auth) asserted to be non-actionable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both found while setting up the on-node test, and both fail silently in
the same direction — the gate reports success while protecting nothing,
which is the exact failure the module was written to prevent.
1. Loopback-pinned ports were skipped entirely.
`identity.rs` dropped any port whose manifest sets `bind: 127.0.0.1`,
reasoning that a loopback publish is not externally reachable. But
`listener.rs` requires loopback-pinning as the PRECONDITION for gating —
while an app holds 0.0.0.0:<port> the kernel will not let the gate bind
that port at all. So the two contradicted each other: pinning an app, the
one action that lets the gate take over, was also what removed it from
the gated set. Completing the entire migration would have gated nothing,
and GateStatus would have reported zero unprotected ports while doing it.
`bind` cannot carry this decision, because two unrelated intentions
produce an identical loopback publish: Bitcoin's RPC 8332 is pinned so
the LAN CANNOT reach it (fronting it would newly expose it on every host
address, behind a login but exposed where it deliberately was not),
whereas a migrated app is pinned precisely so the gate CAN. Inferring
from `bind` breaks one or the other, so the intent is now declared:
`PortAuth::Local` means the first case. The three ports that are
host-local by intent (bitcoin-core/knots 8332, aiui 5180 — all already
`bind: 127.0.0.1`) say so, and a loopback publish with `auth: session`
stays gated. A test pins that property.
2. The port map was never refreshed.
`AppGate::refresh()` existed, was documented as making catalog changes
apply without a restart, and was called by nothing. The map was built
once in `new()`, so an app installed while the daemon runs would never be
gated — and would never appear in `unprotected` either, so the node would
report itself fully enforced while serving a brand-new app to anyone who
asked. The sweep now refreshes before classifying.
Tests: 22/22 appgate, 73/73 archipelago-container.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Groundwork for the app gate (item 1): before anything can enforce
authentication on app ports, the node has to know which ports are
*supposed* to be reachable without it.
`PortMapping` grows `auth` (PortAuth::Session | None, defaulting to
Session) and `auth_rationale`. The default is deliberately the protected
one. Every app port on this node answered with no credential at all over
LAN, Tailscale, Tor and the FIPS mesh alike — reproduced 2026-08-03 —
precisely because exposure was what you got by saying nothing. Inverting
the default means a new app is protected unless its manifest argues for
an exemption.
Validation makes the argument mandatory: `auth: none` without a
rationale is rejected, and so is a rationale without `auth: none` (that
combination means the author wrote an exemption and did not get one —
shipping it silently would leave them believing otherwise).
17 ports across 12 apps are declared exempt, each with its reason. They
are the ports that cannot sit behind an HTTP login page at all: Lightning
p2p (BOLT-8 noise), LND gRPC/REST and CLN gRPC (macaroon / mutual TLS —
Zeus and remote wallets dial these directly), Bitcoin p2p gossip,
electrum wire protocol, Wyoming voice streams, git-over-SSH, and the UDP
discovery protocols (mDNS, SSDP, STUN). Everything else — 39 published
ports — now defaults to gated.
Bitcoin's RPC 8332 is deliberately NOT exempted: it is already
`bind: 127.0.0.1`, so the gate never sees it, and claiming an exemption
it does not need would put a line in the audit list that means nothing.
If the loopback bind is ever dropped, it fails closed.
Two corpus tests keep this honest: every shipped manifest must parse
under the new rules, and the exempt set is pinned at 17 so any change to
the node's unauthenticated surface has to be a deliberate edit.
Tests: 73/73 archipelago-container, workspace builds clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A secret_env entry with optional: true is skipped when its secret file is
missing, unreadable, or empty, instead of failing the whole resolution and
taking the app down. Needed for per-node integrations like btcpay's
internal-LND connection string: nodes without LND must still run btcpay.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dd61a204 bind hardening published Bitcoin RPC on the archy-net gateway
10.89.0.1 — but rootlessport binds in the HOST netns, where that address
does not exist. First real deploy (.228, 2026-07-09) crash-looped
bitcoin-knots AND bitcoin-core the moment the gate's stop→start regenerated
the unit from the re-signed catalog: 'rootlessport listen tcp
10.89.0.1:8332: bind: cannot assign requested address', restart counter 132.
Hand-edits to the unit don't survive — the orchestrator regenerates it from
the signed catalog manifest within seconds.
- New archipelago_container::manifest::host_can_bind_publish_ip(): empty/
wildcard/loopback accepted without probing, anything else ephemeral-bind
probed. Applied at all three publish paths — quadlet from_manifest
(PublishPort), podman API create (host_ip), and the legacy -p string
table loop — each dropping the publish with a warn instead of taking the
container down. This neutralizes the bad binds already in the SIGNED
catalog, so nodes recover on binary deploy alone (no ceremony needed).
- Remove the gateway publishes from bitcoin-knots/-core manifests and the
legacy config.rs tables: verified on .228 that every in-node consumer
(lnd, btcpay/nbxplorer, fedimint, mempool-api) dials the container's
archy-net alias directly (bitcoin-knots:8332) and lnd uses RPC polling
(no ZMQ) — the gateway publish had zero consumers. Loopback-only RPC/ZMQ
(the approved LAN lockdown) stands; P2P 8333 stays public.
Catalog still ships the gateway binds until the next signing ceremony
regenerates it from these manifests; the guard makes that non-urgent.
Tests: container crate 65/65 (2 new guard tests), quadlet 40/40.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
USER DECISION 2026-07-08: accept breaking external wallets pointed at
nodeIP:8332. The 0.0.0.0 publish exposed auth-only RPC (and unauthenticated
ZMQ 28332/28333 on the legacy path) to the whole LAN.
- New `bind` field on manifest port mappings (validated as an IP; the same
host port may repeat with distinct binds). Rendered as
PublishPort=<ip>:<host>:<container> in quadlet units and host_ip in the
podman API create — unbound ports render byte-identical to before, so no
fleet-wide false-drift wave.
- bitcoin-knots/-core manifests publish 8332 on 127.0.0.1 + 10.89.0.1 only.
In-node consumers (lnd, fedimint-gateway, btcpay/nbxplorer) are unaffected:
they dial host.archipelago / host.containers.internal, which the
orchestrator pins to the archy-net gateway 10.89.0.1. P2P 8333 stays public.
- Legacy config.rs port strings get the same treatment incl. ZMQ.
Tests: new quadlet bind-render + manifest bind-validation tests;
container:: suite 167/167, archipelago-container 63/63.
DEPLOY NOTE: PublishPort strings change for bitcoin containers → one
planned recreate per node; restart lnd afterwards (it caches the backend
IP — see the backend-recreate cascade tracker item). Catalog manifests for
bitcoin apps must be regenerated + re-signed for catalog-covered nodes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Secret env used to merge into manifest.app.environment, landing in
'podman inspect' Config.Env on the API backend and — worse — as
plaintext Environment= lines in Quadlet unit files on disk. Now:
- expand_and_partition_env (container crate, pure + tested) expands
${KEY} placeholders and splits env into plain entries and
secret-bearing pairs. Plain entries that interpolate a secret
(btcpay's Password=${BTCPAY_DB_PASS} connection strings) are
tainted and travel as secrets too. Secret values themselves are
never expanded (a generated value containing '${' passes verbatim).
- values register as podman secrets: stdin (never argv/tempfile),
--replace, content-hash label to skip no-op rewrites; a per-app hash
cache in the orchestrator makes steady-state reconciles free of
podman secret calls. Registration goes through the runtime trait
(default no-op keeps mocks/docker inert).
- containers reference secrets by name: secret_env map in the libpod
create spec, Secret=<name>,type=env,target=<KEY> in Quadlet units.
Verified empirically on fleet podman 5.4.2: value absent from
inspect Config.Env, runtime injection works rootless.
- rotation detection: io.archipelago.secret-env-hash container label
(API) / the changed unit bytes (Quadlet). Pre-upgrade containers
lack the label, so every secret-bearing app recreates ONCE on the
first reconcile after deploy — deliberate, it scrubs the plaintext
secrets out of existing container configs. Data dirs untouched.
- docker dev fallback keeps plain -e injection (no secret store);
podman secrets persist across uninstall, matching the
preserve-credentials invariant (reinstall re-registers by hash).
In-container /proc/<pid>/environ is unchanged — env remains the
app-compat contract; the closed leaks are inspect output and unit
files on disk.
Tests: archipelago-container 61/61 (3 new: taint partition, verbatim
secrets, hash order-independence), archipelago container:: 160/160
(fedimint install test now asserts the secret arrives as a ref, not
env; quadlet render test asserts Secret=/Label= lines). NEEDS the
on-node gate re-run before the item counts as verified.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add `container.network_aliases: Vec<String>` (serde default, DNS-label
validated) so a stack member can answer to short hostnames its peers bake
in, beyond its own container name. Rendered in both runtime paths:
- podman_client: merged (deduped) into the custom-network aliases array.
- quadlet from_manifest: appended after the container name; emitted only
for Bridge networks (slirp/pasta reject aliases).
Needed for the indeedhub migration: its frontend nginx proxies to
`api:4000` / `minio:9000` / `relay:8080`, so those members declare
`network_aliases: [api|minio|relay]` to keep the short names resolvable on
the dedicated indeedhub-net (vs. colliding generic aliases on archy-net).
Also fixes 4 pre-existing from_manifest test failures (unrelated to this
change, surfaced now that the quadlet suite runs green): test manifests
used the long-invalid `network_policy: archy-net` (allowlist is
isolated/bridge/host → moved to network_policy: isolated + container.network)
and bind sources outside /var/lib/archipelago.
Tests: container crate 53 pass; archipelago quadlet+alias 47 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add controlled post_install/pre_start hook schema to AppDefinition:
LifecycleHooks/HookStep (Exec | CopyFromHost)/HostCopy with allowlist
validation (relative src, no '..', absolute container dest, non-empty
exec). Re-exported from the crate root. Design: docs/manifest-hooks-design.md.
Also add the missing generated_secrets: vec![] field to three
pre-existing ContainerConfig test literals (the field was added to the
struct in 03a4ee1b but the container crate's own tests were never rerun,
so -p archipelago-container failed to compile). cargo test green: 53 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
fmcd crash-looped "Operation not permitted (os error 1)" on .116 (kernel
6.12.74): the default rootless seccomp profile blocks a syscall its Mainline-DHT
/ iroh transport needs, so the REST API never came up (:8178 → HTTP 000) and
federations couldn't be joined. Verified: with seccomp=unconfined fmcd boots and
answers /v2/* (HTTP 401 instead of dead). fmcd works on other nodes, so this is
kernel/seccomp-specific — but the relaxation is safe for an outbound-networking
daemon and harmless where not needed.
- new `security.seccomp_unconfined` manifest flag (SecurityPolicy);
- libpod backend sets `seccomp_profile_path: "unconfined"` (== --security-opt
seccomp=unconfined); quadlet backend emits `SeccompProfile=unconfined`;
- enabled in apps/fedimint-clientd/manifest.yml.
NOTE: manifests live on-disk at /opt/archipelago/apps/<id>/manifest.yml, so the
node needs the updated manifest deployed + the fmcd container recreated to apply.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CORE_RPC_HOST was hardcoded to bitcoin-knots in three env-render paths, so on a
bitcoin-core node (container named bitcoin-core) mempool-api could not reach
Bitcoin RPC. Both node variants are reachable on archy-net by container name —
only the name differs.
- Legacy direct-podman (stacks.rs) and config.rs::get_app_config now use a new
dependencies::detect_bitcoin_rpc_host() (pure, unit-tested pick_bitcoin_host).
- Quadlet/manifest path (the modern fleet default): add a {{BITCOIN_HOST}}
derived-env placeholder — HostFacts.bitcoin_host + resolve_derived_env render
it; prod_orchestrator detects Knots/Core via podman ps, resolved on demand
only for manifests that use the placeholder. mempool-api manifest moves
CORE_RPC_HOST from static env to derived_env: {{BITCOIN_HOST}}.
Tests: pick_bitcoin_host (5 cases incl. substring safety), container-crate
resolve_derived_env, and orchestrator mempool_core_rpc_host_follows_bitcoin_node
(core->bitcoin-core, knots->bitcoin-knots). No-regression confirmed: picker
returns bitcoin-knots live on .198. Live bitcoin-core validation pending (no
core node available). Sibling hardcodes (lnd/btcpay/electrumx/fedimint) tracked
as B12b.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bitcoin containers were exiting in ms after start because the orchestrator
install path skipped the credential-materialisation step the legacy path
did. resolve_secret_env then failed to read
/var/lib/archipelago/secrets/bitcoin-rpc-password, the container started
with no password, and bitcoind crashed before logs were useful.
Two changes:
1. install.rs — call bitcoin_rpc_credentials() for bitcoin/bitcoin-core/
bitcoin-knots before any install branch runs. The function generates +
persists on first call (OnceCell-cached), so this is idempotent.
2. manifest.rs::resolve_secret_env — return ManifestError::Invalid when a
resolved secret trims to empty, instead of silently producing
`KEY=` env vars that crash auth.
Adds a unit test for the empty-secret rejection.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
ContainerConfig.image is now Option<String>, mutually exclusive with a new
optional ContainerConfig.build: Option<BuildConfig>. Exactly one of image
or build must be present, enforced in AppManifest::validate.
Adds ResolvedSource enum (Pull | Build) and ContainerConfig::resolve +
::image_ref helpers so the orchestrator can treat pull and build uniformly.
All 26 existing pull-only manifests continue to parse unchanged
(covered by existing_pull_only_manifests_still_parse test).
Call sites updated: podman_client, runtime::DockerRuntime, dev_orchestrator.
Dev orchestrator errors out cleanly on Build sources until Step 2 lands
build_image support on the runtime trait.
Step 1 of docs/rust-orchestrator-migration.md. 10 new unit tests, all pass.
Also includes: docs/rust-orchestrator-migration.md (design spec) and
docs/STATUS.md resume section for the next session.
The .github/workflows/ci.yml Rust job runs cargo fmt --check, clippy
with -D warnings, and tests. All three were failing. This commit:
- Applies rustfmt across the tree (the bulk of the diff — untouched
since the last toolchain bump, so a wide sweep was unavoidable).
- Fixes the correctness-level clippy errors:
container/bitcoin_simulator.rs wildcard-in-or-pattern
container/manifest.rs from_str rename to parse (reserved name)
container/podman_client.rs .get(0) -> .first()
container/runtime.rs manual += collapse
archipelago/src/constants.rs doc-comment → module-doc
api/rpc/package/install.rs stray /// comment above a non-item
container/docker_packages.rs redundant field init
streaming/advertisement.rs missing Metric import in tests
tests/orchestration_tests.rs `vec!` in non-Vec contexts
mesh/listener/dispatch.rs unused store_plain_message import
api/rpc/tor/mod.rs and mesh/steganography.rs: push-after-new → vec!
- Quiets wide legacy surfaces with crate-level allows in main.rs for
stylistic lints (too_many_arguments, type_complexity, doc indent,
enum variant prefix, wildcard-in-or, assertions-on-constants,
drop_non_drop, unused_io_amount, ptr_arg) — these fired in dozens
of places with no correctness payoff and have been churning every
toolchain bump.
- Tags intentional-dead-code helpers: wallet/ and streaming/ modules
are WIP, mesh::send_chunked_payload and DM_V1_MARKER are kept for
rollback compatibility, vpn::get_nostr_vpn_status is surface-area
for a not-yet-landed RPC.
cargo fmt --check, cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features
-- -D warnings, and cargo test --all-features now all pass locally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
